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worried-- could I have spread HSV1 to my mother?
I'm quite worried. I recently -- about 4 months ago-- developed cold sores, got tested, and it came back positive for HSV1. I wasn't too concerned about it because its not life threatening and certainly liveable. However, I didn't tell my parents, in fact I didn't tell anyone in my family.
I noticed a new cold sore outbreak today on my lip-- its small and not very noticeable unless you look close. I'm not even 100% sure its a HSV1 outbreak but that would be the most likely explanation.
My parents also came up to visit me and my sister in New York today. I met them for dinner, and my mother, being excited to see me, gave me a hug and offered her cheek for me to kiss, and I obliged. Then she quickly turned and kissed me briefly on the lips, and I didn't have time or the presence of mind to stop her.
Needless to say my dinner was quite spoiled by the panic that set in at the thought that my mother may have contracted Herpes. And worse, that I could've stopped her if I was brave enough to tell her that I had it in the first place (because she wouldn't have tried to kiss me), or that we could've maybe nipped it in the bud if I told her my fears and she could've washed her lips or something of that sort. My grandmother also suffered severe Alzhiemers before she died, and I hear that with a certain genetic variation HSV1 can make one more susceptible to Alzhiemers. So that only added to my worries...
I eventually managed to calm myself down and put it out of my mind, but I'm still concerned.
Does anyone know the chances of spreading HSV1 from a very light, brief motherly/son kiss? It was really more of a peck. Should I tell her my concerns? Perhaps she could still take some antiviral something-rather before the incubation period is over?
I noticed a new cold sore outbreak today on my lip-- its small and not very noticeable unless you look close. I'm not even 100% sure its a HSV1 outbreak but that would be the most likely explanation.
My parents also came up to visit me and my sister in New York today. I met them for dinner, and my mother, being excited to see me, gave me a hug and offered her cheek for me to kiss, and I obliged. Then she quickly turned and kissed me briefly on the lips, and I didn't have time or the presence of mind to stop her.
Needless to say my dinner was quite spoiled by the panic that set in at the thought that my mother may have contracted Herpes. And worse, that I could've stopped her if I was brave enough to tell her that I had it in the first place (because she wouldn't have tried to kiss me), or that we could've maybe nipped it in the bud if I told her my fears and she could've washed her lips or something of that sort. My grandmother also suffered severe Alzhiemers before she died, and I hear that with a certain genetic variation HSV1 can make one more susceptible to Alzhiemers. So that only added to my worries...
I eventually managed to calm myself down and put it out of my mind, but I'm still concerned.
Does anyone know the chances of spreading HSV1 from a very light, brief motherly/son kiss? It was really more of a peck. Should I tell her my concerns? Perhaps she could still take some antiviral something-rather before the incubation period is over?
thank you. My common sense tells me this is true, but somehow it helps calm the racing mind to hear someone else confirm it!
oral herpes is almost exclusively transmitted through romantic type kisses as an adult , not social pecks. really not a worry.
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