Mother’s Facebook post shows the dangers of letting people kiss their babies

She claims that her newborn could have died after contracting oral herpes from the kiss. The child was taken to the hospital for a total of five days. Doctors immediately tested the child for brain and liver damage.

Unlike traditional herpes, oral herpes is not a sexually transmitted disease; rather, it’s transmitted via saliva, often from kissing or sharing food and drinks with an infected person.

Claire finished: “She was VERY lucky, all her tests came back clear”. And if someone had a cold sore ask them to stay away until it has gone.

The mother thought nothing of it until one night when Henderson was feeding her daughter, she noticed Brooke’s lips were swollen and she had a cold sore.

Claire has now warned parents against letting people kiss their babies in a Facebook post, explaining how the visitor she allowed to hold her baby didn’t have any visible signs of the virus. As you can imagine, one of the last things they want to hear about are more dangers to take heed, but this one deserves your ear.

The concerned mother rushed her baby to hospital following a friend’s advice.

When they arrived at the hospital, doctors affirmed Henderson’s haste, saying she was correct in taking the baby’s condition seriously.

Henderson’s Facebook message has been shared almost 40,000 times. In fact both HSV-1 and HSV-2 (the virus that causes genital herpes) can be passed on from a mother to her baby during childbirth.

She Knows says that according to World Health Organizations statistics, cold sores are generally caused by the herpes simplex virus – type 1 (HSV-1), are highly contagious and are usually contracted by mouth to mouth contact. Parenting it is important that parents “limit the number of people who visit and handle your baby for the first few months, and remind them not to kiss the baby’s face, especially on the lips”, in order to prevent cases like Brooke’s from happening.