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Hi doctors, i have hsv 1 according to blood test, igg was positive, i think its oral.. question is, should i stop kissing my child? how i can have normal parental relationship with her? i do not know if i have already transferred it to her?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Don't overreact. Around half of all adults in the US (up to 90% in some countries) test IgG positive for HSV1, mostly oral. It is rarely transmitted in absence of an obvious outbreak. Half of all parents are in your shoes, and their kids don't catch HSV1 from them! Many kids get oral herpes (you probably were infected as a child), mostly from other young kids in school etc, not from their parents.

Answered 2/17/2023

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