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Could i have passed hsv 2 to my child during childbirth and not know? she is now almost 4 years old.
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HSV: Your hsv status is usually known at the time of delivery and obvious lesions are noticed. Any obvious infection in your child would be seen as a fever, rash (usually blisters). If she has had no unexplained blisters, rash/lesions and had a normal newborn course, then it is unlikely you passed on hsv.
Answered 4/1/2015
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Not really: The prime risk for this occurs during a 1st attack in the labor/vaginal delivery period with 30% acquiring disease with almost universally bad outcome.(within days/weeks) Risks to baby drop to about 5% with secondary outbreaks with symptoms again starting within days or weeks. If you have gone 4 years with no problems the kid didn't get it at the time.
Answered 7/7/2017
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