At 04:59 PM 10/24/96 -0700, you wrote: >Carla, >The mom in my practice who had herpes on her nipples was nursing a >toddler, and only had a few lesion, one on the tip of each nipple that >looked like drying out chicken pox, and one or two higher on each breast. > Usually recurrent herpes simplex is not as severe as you describe. Is >the mother immunosupressed? >Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC NYC [log in to unmask] No, she is not immunosupressed. I do not have the results of the herpes culture, the baby was discharged on home monitoring the day after I saw the mom. I will try to find the results next time I see her OB MD. I can't just look them up because they were done in his office. -- Carla (just north of Washington, DC)