Fingering during outbreak

[simpleway]

I fingered a girl I've been dating who has genital hsv2.  She was wearing very sheer/see through underwear which I was rubbing over-top of so I don't know if this provided any protection?  It was maybe a day or two later she said she had what may well be a lesion/start of an outbreak down there, so it is possible she may have had a lesion or been shedding the virus when I manually stimulating her.  What was my risk?

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

The antibody tests are NEVER to be used on children.  When used in children, there is a 50% false positive rate.  Please don't put them or yourself through this trauma.

You need desperately to get a grip here!  You've taken your fear and gone way overboard and you've moved from could you get herpes through cloth to testing your children???  Please, stop, step back and try to get some perspective here!  You don't have risk!

If you have herpes, it isn't from this contact.

Terri

[simpleway]

So I shouldnt worry then?  I just had a blood a test and I am waiting the results.  I am a little worried about my kids.  One was two years old when I had the rash, and they definitely came into contact with it?  Even if my test is negative, should I test them just in case?  Or only test them if I end up somehow being positive for type 2?

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

No, I think first you would notice a symptom on your finger.

Terri

[simpleway]

This actually happened over a year ago so my memory is fuzzy.  I was manipulating her THROUGH the fabric but I dont remember if there was any direct contact by accident.  I never had any lesions on my fingers but I did have what I thought was poison ivy on my arm during my relationship with her (I believe I had been doing some landscaping when it showed up).  I was looking at dermatome photos and that arm rash was on the underside of my forearm which is different dermatomes than your fingers right?  Would fingering result in a rash on the underside of my forearm and not on my fingers?

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

So you were manipulating her genital THROUGH the fabric, is that correct?  If yes, then you don't have risk.  If no, then the only possible risk would be to your fingers, not your genitals, and there would only be remote risk if you had breaks in the skin of your hands.  What was your status re:  breaks in the skin of your hands?  If you got herpes on your hands, you would develop water blisters on your hands.  Do you have any of that?

Terri