molluscum contagiosum...anyone heard of it?

[foxtrot]

It's just that my DSs have had it for a few months and i got called to collect DS2 from pre-school yesterday as the staff thought he might have chicken pox. I didn't argue, took him home and said i'd monitor it, although he's had chicken pox. Anyway today i took him in and said it was just a fresh crop of molluscum spots. The teacher said she'd never heard of it -i was suprised she hadn't come across it before, as the doctor said it was fairly common complaint in the under-fives.

I've thought that too cat. Ds1 shares a bath with ds2 and ds3 and they swap towels etc. and they don't have it. Dh and I don't have it either.

I know it can be more easily picked up when they have low immunity though - the boys have brilliant immunity and rarely get ill but ds1 did actually have pneumonia in February. I'm wondering if he picked it up at swimming lessons just before or just after that when his immunity was still low.