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>From:  Presutti, Lenard
>Sent:  Tuesday, February 16, 1999 8:43 AM
>To:    'Lactnet'
>Subject:       FW: Herpes
>Importance:    High
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>From:  Presutti, Lenard
>Sent:  Tuesday, February 16, 1999 8:40 AM
>To:    'Dany Gauthier'; 'LactnetListserv'
>Subject:       RE: Herpes
>Importance:    High
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>I really doesn't matter which virus is causing the infection or where. They
>both can be reactivated and cause reoccurences of herpetic lesions and there
>is no way no tell the difference clinically except by culturing and typing
>the virus which really does not matter clinically as they both have the same
>implications for breast feeding if there is a lesion on the breast.
>       Yes there is a good possibility that there will be reoccurences on the same
>breast intermittently. There is no way no predict how often this might occur
>in a particular individual. I would be very careful about breastfeeding a
>baby on a breast that has a herpetic lesion as the baby could easily get
>infected if the mom were not very careful and this is a life long infection.
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>                                               Len Presutti, DO
>                                               Dept of Fam Med.
>                                               Ohio Univ.  COM
>                                               Athens  OH 45701
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>From:  Dany Gauthier[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, February 15, 1999 4:05 PM
>Subject:       Herpes
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>I wondered if anyone could answer a question a BF mom had about Herpes. It
>seems she has a sore on a breast and on her vulva from having sexual
>relations with her husband. Her husband had a sore in his mouth at the time!
>She says they both do not have genital herpes.
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>I counseled her about covering up the sore, but she wanted to know if it
>would come back on her breast and if she would, from now on, have genital
>herpes. I gather that they are two different types of herpes viruses, and
>that the genital one was type II while the other is type I, but I read that
>some genital herpes are type one. What can I tell her? She is worried that
>it will come back and infect her baby.
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>Dany Gauthier, IBCLC
>Lactation consultant at Ste-Justine Hospital, Montreal
>Quebec
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