Question:
My toddler was diagnosed at 18 months with HSV 2. Much to our surprise!!!!! My husband I were tested after that and were positive. He actually was tested back in the 70's with a false-negative but for all these years thought he was getting a rash from something else.

At around a year he got hand foot mouth virus and after that he started getting a funny rash every few weeks for about a week at a time. We thought he was having an allergic reaction and almost "died" when the doctor told us he had HSV 2. They told us that the frequency of the outbreaks would go away. It really hasn't. There have been some lulls but it seems he still gets one every 3 weeks. He's almost 4.

Looking back, I think my toddler had his first "attack" at 4 days old when he was admitted to neo-natal icu for apnea. He would have been a "SIDS" baby if I would have put him to bed that night. He was in for a total of 11 days and unbeknownst to us was tested for HSV and it was negative. He was on life support for 7 days and was given a variety of antibiotics because his condition presented like a bacterial infection. (No cultures came back positive.) He had no blisters. His white blood cell count was off and his platelets were dropping. We questioned possible small seizures a couple times. Long story short, "miraculously" started healing and got to come home on the 11th day. It was written off as a mysterious infection.

After reading some info on the net I really think he may have had an infection in his central nervous system. I want to know if HSV is likely to present that way again? Is it worth dragging him to the hospital to have the spinal test taken for CNS disease?

Any resources for kids with HSV 2 out there? I haven't found any? THanks.

Answer:
did you have a vaginal delivery?
herpes, is very dangerous to babys, and the only way a baby gets herpes, is via delivery from the mother, and from someone kissing the baby that has oral herpes (ie coldsores) so from the severity of this, im going to say that you have genital herpes and had no idea which is very common as most people with herpes and dont know, either never have a outbreak, or have very small ones that can be confused with yeast infections.

http://www.pregnancy-info.net/stds_h...pregnancy.html
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020315/1138.html
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec19/ch279/ch279h.html