Friend gave DS a cold sore

[LoathlyLady]

She gets them all the time and knows how contagious they are and that they never leave your system once you’re infected. I saw her last weekend and she had a bad open sore on her lip. I turned around for a moment and when I looked back she had her water bottle out and was letting him drink from it. I didn’t hear him ask for water, I think she just offered it for no reason. I know it will have been sheer absent mindedness and didn’t say anything at the time, but now he has a cold sore and I feel inexplicably livid.

I guess I’m worrying that he’ll have to live with recurrent cold sores, also I’m pregnant and know how dangerous the virus is for newborns, hate the thought of not being able to let DS kiss his new sibling. And I’m just angry that she didn’t think about what she was doing. I know a cold sore is not the end of the world so I don’t know where this anger is coming from!! Maybe IAB hormonal

No it can be passed through sharing a drink bottle too, if something has touched the active cold sore and then someone else’s lips you can catch it.

There are a lot of supposed experts online saying it’s a myth that it can be passed via drinks/towels etc. I am sceptical too though and would never risk it. Someone linked an article upthread at 21.44

Lots of people are carriers of herpes simplex. Some people only have a cold sore once, and never again, which might include him.
It's annoying, and she shouldn't have. But cold sores are really not the end of the world! Aciclovir doesn't work for me but dabbing on the contents of an ibuprofen capsule does. I can't imagine lipstick helps with healing!

I woudlnt be livid !!!