Has anyone heard that once you have mono and it clears up. That it can.......?

Question

be contagious to other people? My daughter has mono last year. Now her boyfriend has it. His Dr. told him he caught it from my daughter. Has anyone else had this kind of experience? I've never heard of it.

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible. Mono is caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus. The symptoms of infectious mono usually resolve in 1 or 2 months, but the virus remains dormant/latent in a few cells in the throat and blood for the rest of the person's life. (e.g. this is similar to the herpes virus, that causes cold sores on a persons lips The virus get reactivated occationally and causes the sores, due to stress etc.). Periodically, the virus can reactivate and is commonly found in the saliva of infected persons. This reactivation usually occurs without symptoms of illness or only symptomes that are similar to a common cold. Thus, many healthy people can carry and spread the virus intermittently for life. These people are usually the primary reservoir for person-to-person transmission (after all most people do not kiss other people when they are seriously sick). For this reason, transmission of the virus is almost impossible to prevent.

The virus also establishes a lifelong dormant infection in some cells of the body's immune system.

Most individuals exposed to people with infectious mononucleosis have previously been infected with the virus so they do not get sick and are not at risk for infectious mononucleosis. (the CDC estimates that 95% of adults in the US between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected previously - not all people that get infected for the first time get diagnosed properly. Often people just assume they have the flu or a bad cold.
The most common age to observe infectious mono in the US is teens and early 20's. Why? Because, the teen have not been previously infected, so they are not immune and transmission of EBV requires intimate contact with the saliva of an infected person, e.g. kissing. So one teens start to date they provide a good place for the virus to thrive.

Answer 2

Well, I was dx with having mono 3 years ago... and was put on antibiotics for it. About a month later I got retested and the results showed no infection. Mono stays in the infected person for life , even though the symptoms could be gone, and the blood test will show that it is not there anymore. But usually after being on medicine for it, it is no longer transmittable to other person(s), however, not saying that it is impossible.
Also there is a such thing as chronic mono where the person stays with the symptoms and it never resolves, or the symptoms do resolve but it comes back later on in the future.

In all, mono always stays in the body, but after being on meds is 99% not transmittable.

Answer 3

I dont think the bf got it from her. once the mono is gone, its gone. its contagious when she has it, but a yr later...i doubt it. I think the bf picked it up somewhere else. DId you hear the Dr. tell him he cought it from your daughter? Or could it be the bf making stories to cover up a thing he did wrong?

Answer 4

I heard that mono can come back at any time, especially during times of physical or mental stress. So maybe it came back...

Answer 5

I'm not sure about that. My best friend had it & like we all drink after her & we don't have it so I think it's okay. It might depend on like what type (if there's different degrees lol) or whatever. But i don't really think you can. But supposedly, you can catch it by just like drinking after people. Wow

Answer 6

Last year would not do it. The incubation period is 4-7 weeks.

Answer 7

more than six months between her having had it, and his having it? no, he didn't get it from her. That is just silly. What the doctor probably meant was that MOST guys get it from their girl friends. Doesn't mean he did.....but I would like to know just who he did catch it from....?