Mono

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Registered: 02-18-2005
Mono
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Thu, 04-27-2006 - 6:49am

A girl in DD's extended group (not her immediate friends) has mono - and the grade is in a little bit of a tizzy! Apparently, this girl has "hooked up" (making out) with alot of kids (girls and boys), and then counting who those kids have hooked up with, and all the shared sodas.....add in very active teen imaginations, and it's quite a to-do.

So far no one else has tested positive for mono - I won't worry about DD until someone closer to her is diagnosed, or if she shows symptoms.

Fun, fun, fun in High School!

Sue

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Registered: 08-31-2004
In reply to: ljd_mom
Thu, 04-27-2006 - 8:27am

Take heart. My daughter was exposed twice to mono. She didn't get it either time. She is now taking microbiology her senior year and they have gone over diseases.

We always thought it was funny and called her typhoid mary. She seemed to be a carrier. Her teacher now tells her that it is possible to be a carrier and never contract the disease. So hopefully you have nothing to worry about.

Hope all goes well.

Andie

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Registered: 01-20-2005
In reply to: ljd_mom
Thu, 04-27-2006 - 9:22am

I think mono is much harder to catch than people used to think although both of my kids have had it. Youngest caught it from oldest. Not real sure where the oldest got it from but she does other health problems and seems to catch everything under the sun.

It's just one more thing for the kids to gossip about. Hopefully yours will not catch it but at least the summer's coming up so she won't have to deal with school if she gets it. The school wouldn't approve a homebound for DD despite her other health problems and the fact that her spleen became extremely enlarged. Her school actually was on two sides of the road with several large parking lots between them - rather long walk. DH actually left work to drive DD from one side of the road to the other b/c she couldn't make the walk. Thankfully, she had some of Christmas break and a few snow days off. It didn't really seem to bother youngest - she was tired for about a week and that was it.

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Registered: 04-27-2006
In reply to: ljd_mom
Thu, 04-27-2006 - 11:09pm

Mono is not really considered the kissing disease anymore. Last year it went around like wild fire in my children's high school. My daughter, Maren(16) got it from a team memeber and missed a month of school. It can spread from sharing drinks, chapstick,and things like that.

Sienna