"We saw our baby slowly die in two weeks" – GROW

"I have been silent since the death of my daughter Mallory. Only now, more than a month later, can I write this. But if your death can bring something good and prevent another person from feeling the same pain that I feel now, I would be very careless in not spreading this information.

If you have a newborn baby, or visit, wash your hands. Very. If someone wants to touch your baby, make sure that person has washed their hands before. And that she is washing her hands once again.

HSV-1 is better known as cold sores virus (Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1). It is extremely common and the World Health Organization estimates that 67% of all humans on Earth are infected with it. And to make matters worse, many infected people never have any symptoms and do not even know that they have this virus. But for newborns, it's more than fatal, as was the case with Mallory.

You must think that it would be easy to diagnose. Surely someone with a sore kissed his mouth, right? Mallory has never had contact with someone who had a cold sore. Never. Nobody kissed her on the mouth. Nevertheless, she contracted HSV-1 during her first week of life and we had to see her die slowly for almost two weeks. Mallory could not keep his hands away from his mouth and eyes and sucked his fingers all the time, so it's almost certain that the virus had to stay in his hands at some point. It is possible to transmit HSV-1 even without cold sore.

She had no symptoms other than a high fever during the first week, and when the blisters appeared, it was probably too late for the antivirals to take effect. Considering that more than half of the people in the world have the cold virus, we do not understand why so few babies are dying of the disease or why our beautiful daughter Mallory had to be part of this unfortunate statistic, but that is not the case. that's how the world works. I think.

Please, if you are reading this, be very careful and wash your hands before touching a newborn baby. Statistically speaking, you are probably infected with HSV-1 and you may not even know it. "

The HSV-1 virus is an extremely common and highly contagious virus: according to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 3.7 billion HSV-1 is present worldwide, but most of them live with the virus for years, have no symptoms and therefore do not even know that they are infected.

Blisters, mouth ulcers or oral disease, accompanied by tingling, itching or burning, are signs of this virus.The HIV-1 is mainly transmitted by contact with wounds or saliva of infected persons.But even if the risk of infection is greater in the presence of active wounds, it can also be transmitted even in the absence of apparent symptoms.

Contamination usually occurs during childhood and, once infected, the person "carries" the virus for the rest of his life. l with infected people and do not share objects who are in contact with saliva such as cups, cutlery, towels or a toothbrush. Of course, always wash your hands.

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