My friends DS has Menigitis will contact harm my unborn baby?

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A good friend of mine has a 2 year old son who last week contracted Meningitis, he was rushed to hospitl and luckily they caught it early and he is responding to the medication.
He has been discharged and is being treated daily and having to go into hospital every day for medication and monitoring.

I am due to see them tomorrow but I am 13 weeks pregnant and don't want to put my baby at risk.

Does anyone know if contact with him could pose a risk? I don't know much about it other than it is a virus so I would assume it is not contagious but does anyone have any facts?

I want to be supportive for my friend as she has been through a terrible time with her little one who is only 2 but don't want to put my baby at risk?

Could you ring your midwife and ask her opinion ?

Years ago when I was pregnant with DS I was working in a job that involved me doing home visits to families.

One of the families that I was due to visit had a child in hospital recovering from meningitis.

I phoned my GPs surgery and asked their advice about whether or not it would put my baby (or myself) at risk if I visited the family. The male GP basically said that in theory, no, my baby wasn't at risk, or any risk would be so minimal it was hardly worth considering however he then added "but if you were my wife I'd be discouraging you from going as its never worth taking a risk if you can avoid it". I didn't visit.

Research may have proved otherwise now though so don't take that as gospel.

Maybe phone your surgery or even NHS Direct if they are taking non-urgent calls

Thanks I am away from home visiting so will get my DH to text the number for the midwife to check.

I really want to be supportive of her little one and her but not if it could hurt my baby