A newborn baby is said to have caught herpes after a visitor with
the virus kissed the child.
Young
mum Claire Henderson wrote a Facebook post explaining how her daughter Brooke
was hospitalised for five days after sores started appearing on her face. She
had also developed sores in the back of her throat and on her lips.
Claire
explained how a friend had told her she needed to take the child to hospital
immediately – and she says the decision to do so may have saved her daughter’s
life.
Doctors
said Brooke had the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) and feared the child could
develop brain damage or liver failure so put her on an antiviral
drip for five days.
Claire
has now warned parents against letting people kiss their babies in a Facebook
post, explaining how the visitor she allowed to hold her baby didn’t have
any visible signs of the virus.
‘I know this sounds like I am scaremongering but
if my friend had not told me about this my baby girl could have been very
seriously ill,’ she wrote in a Facebook status. ‘I
noticed the signs early and got her to A&E, we have now been in hospital on
a drip for three days and have got another two to go. She was VERY lucky,
all her tests came back clear.
‘The
moral of the story is DO NOT let anyone kiss your newborn’s mouth, even if they
don’t look like they have a cold sore – 85 per cent of the population
carry the virus.
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