Molluscum contagiosum is a skin infection caused by a virus of the same name. It produces benign, raised bumps, or lesions, on the upper layers of your skin. The small bumps are usually painless. They resolve without treatment and rarely leave scars. The length of time the virus lasts varies for each person, but the bumps can remain from 2 months to 4 years. Molluscum contagiosum (M. contagiosum) transmits between people through direct skin contact with someone who has the virus or by touching an object that the virus has contaminated, like a towel or a piece of clothing. Medication and surgical treatments are available, but you won’t need them most of the time. The virus can be more difficult to treat or cause more severe effects if you have a weakened immune system. If you or your child comes into contact with the M. contagiosum virus, you may not see symptoms of infection for up to 6 months. These symptoms usually take between 2 and 7 weeks to show from the moment you acquire the molluscum contagiosum virus. You may notice the appearance of a small group of painless lesions. These bumps can appear alone or in a patch of as many as 20. They’re usually: very small, shiny, and smooth in appearance flesh-colored, white, or pink firm and shaped like a dome with a dent or dimple in the middle filled with a central core of waxy material between 2 to 5 millimeters in diameterTrusted Source, or between the size of the head of a pin and the size of an eraser on the top of a pencil present anywhere except on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet — specifically on the face, abdomen, torso, arms, and legs of children, or the inner thigh, genitals, and abdomen of adults Most presentations of molluscum contagiosum heal without treatment. But some people experience complications, including: impetigo, or a skin infection that develops after scratching the lesions conjunctivitis, an eye infection that may develop if lesions occur on the eyelid disseminated secondary eczema, which might occur as a result of overreaction to the virus by your immune system widespread molluscum contagiosum that are larger than usual, often on the face (this often develops in people with reduced immunity) sudden scarring with a pitted appearance, either spontaneously or due to lesion removal surgery. For further information and treatment contact Dr Dhanduke's Skin Hair Laser Clinic Vadgaon Maval and Talegaon Dabhade call 8856860463