What is Mono?

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What are Sideaffects? How do you treat it? What does it do? This is for a report.

Answer 1

What is infectious mononucleosis?
Infectious mononucleosis (commonly called mono) is a viral illness usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Mono most commonly develops in young adults between the ages of 15 and 24.1 The virus can be spread through contact with saliva, mucus (from the nose and throat), and sometimes tears. Rarely, EBV is spread through blood transfusions. Because the virus can be spread through saliva, mono is sometimes called the kissing disease.

Once you have been infected with EBV, your body may periodically shed (or give off) the virus throughout your lifetime, possibly spreading the virus to others.2 This can occur despite the fact that you do not have symptoms after your initial mono infection; the virus may still be found in your saliva up to 18 months after you have recovered from your symptoms.1 Some newly infected people may not have any symptoms of mono and may not be aware they are spreading the virus that causes mono.


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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Sometimes known as "the kissing disease" because it's super-popular among high-school and college-age students (cramped quarters, spending lots of time with potentially infected people, swapping spit...easy to transmit in this population.) Not necessarily spread by kissing, though.

It's caused by a virus, so...not much you can do to treat it. Rest, stay out of school a while until you get better...um...can't think of much else to do. I think the virus is similar to the Epstein-Barr virus, a disease often causing chronic fatigue syndrome (not everybody who gets E-B gets CFS, and vice-versa. But there seems to be a link in that a lot of CFS sufferers had E-B and then they got CFS.)

Weakness, fatigue, sore throat, probably swollen glands. I'm trying to remember from when one kid in school got it when I was like, fourteen. Which was fourteen years ago. So you might want to look up "infectious mononucleosis" and "Epstein-Barr virus" and "chronic fatigue syndrome."

Answer 4

Well, it feels like a cold; a real bad cold. It just won't go away, then your tonsils start rotting in your throat. Your glands swell and hurt, you have no appetite, and are tired all the time. Nothing can really be done about it.

I had mono for about a month before my mom finally took me to the doctor. It really felt like the flu combined with strep throat. My tonsils got white spots on them and started to, for lack of better word, rot! They smelled real bad...

Apparently, your spleen is susceptible to rupture when you have mono! This lead to a new game with my female friends, who would punch me in the stomach for months later, yelling RUPTURE RUPTURE!

Answer 5

It is a viral infection and requires no treatment. Speen and lymph nodes are enlarged along with tonsils, and throat is sore and fever present. The blood smear shows typical diagnostic cells.

Answer 6

Mono is mononucleosis. You get fever, sore throat, muscle soreness and fatigue.

Answer 7

nfectious mononucleosis (also known in North America as mono, the kissing disease, or Pfeiffer's disease, and more commonly known as glandular fever in other English-speaking countries) is a disease seen most commonly in adolescents and young adults, characterized by fever, sore throat, muscle soreness and fatigue (symptoms of a common cold or allergies). It is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which infects B cells (B-lymphocytes), producing a reactive lymphocytosis and the atypical T cells (T-lymphocytes).

The virus is typically transmitted from asymptomatic individuals through blood or saliva (hence "the kissing disease"), or by sharing a drink with friends/family, eating utensils, being coughed on, or being in close proximity of an infected person when they cough or sneeze. The disease is far more contagious than is commonly thought. However, in rare cases a person may have a high tolerance to infection[citation needed].

The disease is so-named because the count of mononuclear leukocytes (white blood cells with a one-lobed nucleus) rises significantly. There are two main types of mononuclear leukocytes: monocytes and lymphocytes. They normally account for about 35% of all white blood cells. With infectious mononucleosis, it can become 50-70%. Also, the total white blood count may increase to 10000-20000 per cubic millimeter.

A person can be infected with the virus for weeks or months before any symptoms appear. Symptoms usually appear 4-7 weeks after infection, and may resemble strep throat or other bacterial or viral respiratory infections. These first signs of the disease are commonly confused with cold and flu symptoms. The typical symptoms and signs of mononucleosis are:

Fever - this varies from mild to severe, but is seen in nearly all cases.
Enlarged and tender lymph nodes - particularly the posterior cervical lymph nodes, on both sides of the neck.
Sore throat - seen in nearly all patients with EBV-mononucleosis
Fatigue (sometimes extreme fatigue)
Some patients also display:

Enlarged spleen (splenomegaly, which may lead to rupture) or liver (hepatomegaly)
Abdominal pain
Aching muscles
Headache
Loss of appetite
Jaundice
Depression
Weakness
Skin rash
Dizziness or disorientation
Supra-orbital oedema (the eyes become puffy and swollen) may occur in the early stages of infection
After an initial prodrome of 1-2 weeks, the fatigue of infectious mononucleosis often lasts from 1-2 months. The virus can remain dormant in the B cells indefinitely after symptoms have disappeared, and resurface at a later date. Many people exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus do not show symptoms of the disease, but carry the virus and can transmit it to others. This is especially true in children, in whom infection seldom causes more than a very mild illness which often goes undiagnosed. This feature, along with mono's long (4 to 6 week) incubation period, makes epidemiological control of the disease impractical. About 6% of people who have had infectious mononucleosis will relapse.

Mononucleosis can cause the spleen to swell, which in rare cases may lead to a ruptured spleen. Rupture may occur without trauma, but impact to the spleen is usually a factor. Other complications include hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) causing jaundice, and anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells). In rare cases, death may result from severe hepatitis or splenic rupture.

Reports of splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) in infectious mononucleosis suggest variable prevalence rates of 25% to 75%. Among pediatric patients, a splenomegaly rate of 50% is expected,[1] with a rate of 60% reported in one case series.[2] Although splenic rupture is a rare complication of infectious mononucleosis, it is the basis of advice to avoid contact sports for 4-6 weeks after diagnosis.

Usually, the longer the infected person experiences the symptoms the more the infection weakens the person's immune system and the longer he/she will need to recover. Cyclical reactivation of the virus, although rare in healthy people, is often a sign of immunological abnormalities in the small subset of organic disease patients in which the virus is active or reactivated.

Although the great majority of cases of mononucleosis are caused by the E.B. virus, cytomegalovirus can produce a similar illness, usually with less throat pain. Due to the presence of the atypical lymphocytes on the blood smear in both conditions, most clinicians include both infections under the diagnosis of "mononucleosis." Symptoms similar to those of mononucleosis can be caused by adenovirus and the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii.

Answer 8

http://familydoctor.org/077.xml

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononucleosis

Answer 10

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