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Can my newborn baby is infected with Genital Herpes virus?



On 28th August my wife who is a carrier of HSV II virus, delivered a baby. Apparantly the baby does not have any problem. If the baby's blood showed IGg as positive(IGg=1.1) does it mean that the baby's IGg is positive because the baby produced antibodies for his mother's infection. Does it also convey the fact that the baby is not infected with the virus? Gynacologist told that the baby is healthy and having no problem. Any doctors should answer?

for the first 6 months of life the baby has IgGs transferred passively from the mother (the baby was not infected, and is not producing the antibody her/himself). sounds like the baby is doing fine. I'm not sure what kind of doc would even run the IgG test since it has no meaning in that situation.
see below
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_he...
if a woman has an outbreak at the time of birth the doctors will usually deliver the baby c-section, but if the doctors say the baby is fine and there was no breakout at the time of delivery, i would think everything is OK... but you can always ask the pediatrician to be sure.
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