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How careful do we need to be with towels?

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PYFarnweather
PYFarnweather

I thought my molluscum had cleared up but discovered a couple more spots last week. They're very small and may have been there all the time. Anyway, how careful do MC sufferers need to be with towels, including my own? I mean, I'm very careful to only dry the uninfected areas with my main towel, and to use a different towel for the infected area, but what if my main towel accidentally touches the (now previously) infected area for literally less than one second? Is that too short a time for any cross-contamination to happen? I'm tired of being paranoid, putting my main towel in the wash again at 60 degrees just because it touched the infected area for 0.01 of a second.

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  • kim12266
    kim12266 PYFarnweather

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    it can stay on towels for up to 2 hours after using a 60 degree wash should be fine ...

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