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Hi Terri, I have HSV2. We are very careful to not share towels etc. but last month while having an OB (I think, I’m on Vaclocyclovir so sometimes it’s hard to tell if I’m being paranoid or actually breaking out) my 9 year old son used my towel about 5 minutes after I got out of the shower. It was a hot day, about 90 degrees. He had a big scabbed cut on his buttocks from a bike crash. As soon as I saw him I took the towel but he had already touched himself with it. Fast forward to about a week ago. We went to a water park and the next day he got a rash on his butt. The rash did not look like the typical cluster of blisters but more like 7 or 8 pimples. He said it was sore and it was red. I am a nervous wreck that I have given him HSV2. I can’t sleep, I can’t eat and I cannot stop “what if’ing. Could this happen? I am always so careful but he picked my towel up off the floor instead of grabbing his from the hook. I’m crying as I type this. I have a picture I can email if it helps. Thank you.
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I don’t want you to email me a picture, what would be far better and I hope you did it, was to take him to your pediatrician for an evaluation of the rash.
Remember that herpes transmission takes a certain volume of virus – a little just don’t do. If you are on Valtrex, that means that you are shedding far less virus (if any) that if you were not taking medicine. And then there is the issue of the virus that would actually get on the towel from drying your genitals. You aren’t drying internally and you probably not drying in detail between the labia, right? And then if he used your towel, you are assuming that he used exactly that part that you used to dry your labia which seems unlikely. And then you are assuming that there was virus and that he could get virus from the towel and that the scab would not protect his body from the virus getting in. Those are all very big and unlikely assumptions, don’t you agree?
Transmission in this way is so very unlikely!
Terri
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