Kathy,

Have you seen the 'blisters'  yourself? Maybe I'm way off base here, but is
there a possibility that those 'blisters' are just more pronounced
Montgomery Glands? You described that they were itchy and her PHC declined
to see them. Just a thought that crossed my mind when I read your post.

Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

At 16:46 2-3-2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Young teen mom, hx of rape, got pregnant from later relationship. During
>pregnancy, had relations with a guy with red, itchy penile lesions.
>(client had negative serology titers for HSV 9/2001; stated that she had a
>cold sore a couple of months ago.) Wants to BF but has lesions described
>as blisters over most of right areola. Client stated that blisters have
>been there since October and itch at times. Her PHC provider has not seen
>the lesions, declines to examine them or to culture them, stating that she
>had a negative titer, and "besides, the lenght of time she has had them
>precludes them being infectious."


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