Risk of CMV?

[StormInAGinGlass]

I went to a friends today and she had a cold sore, I didn’t know/realise until we were leaving but our kids had been playing together, I’d accepted a drink from her etc just standard contact I guess.

I’ve never had a cold sore before and I’m 30 weeks pregnant.

Is there a risk here?

You need contact with it or fluid from it to catch it

It's very very unlikely that you'd catch it. You normally have to have direct contact with the coldsore

I remembered she also gave me a hug to congratulate me I’d forgotten about that, obviously no kisses or anything

CMV is something different, it's the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores.
It's a minimal exposure, just don't snog her.

@StormInAGinGlass you will be fine. As long as you haven't kissed her or given her CPR you're very unlikely to catch anything!

Thank you all, I don’t know much about it only that I know I’ve never had a cold sore before!

My dh gets cold sores. I've never had one and neither have my 2 children

You’d need to be kissing her to catch cold sores from her.

And cold sores aren’t CMV - it’s a totally different virus.

You’re more likely to get CMV from your kid as it’s common in childcare centres / schools and kids can be shedding the virus for months after they have the infection. But again, you need direct contact with bodily fluids to catch it, e.g. saliva, urine.