What do you do when you find out your mom has herpes?

I thought you left this site or something?

Um, if you haven't gotten it by now when she was changing your crappy diapers all those years, you're probably not gonna get it now. Oh and do some research dude!

Grow up and come back to the site in a few years maybe?

Here, this should help.

Where is the giveaway?

Is this a serious question?

If yes, herpes ZOSTER can occur to everyone who has had measles. Herpes SIMPLEX is the STD.

Don't avoid your mom, be supportive since herpes zoster is very painful, and the pain can persist even after the rash is gone.

Maybe ask a real doctor about the contagious part instead of internet... Just sayin'

Avoid her

Do not try to mate with her just to be safe. If you truly can't resist then I would recommend using a bleach based lubricant.

You do know you could have simply googled it, right?

But to put it simply: there is no connection between shingles (caused by the varicella zoster virus, same one that causes chickenpox) and herpes (caused by the herpes simplex virus), other than the fact that the two viruses are part of the same family.

So no, you're not in any danger (especially if you've already had chickenpox). And don't be a d*ck and avoid your mother - as someone already said, shingles can be painful, so do your best to be supportive.

If you need more details, you can find them on CDC's website

And to address a previous comment, herpes simplex is not necessary an STD - there are multiple transmission vectors. But that's another topic altogether.

Buy a Biohazard suit =)

I have herpes simplex (cold sores). I got it from my mother as a child. It is incurable, but outbreaks are not that common and can be treated. I haven't had an outbreak for many years. Everyone else in my family managed to avoid getting it. I've never passed it to my wife or children either.
If you are referring to your mom having herpes simplex. It's no big deal. Don't kiss her when she has cold sores or touch somthing she recently touched if she is oozing puss all over from her lips... which I don't think is much of a problem anymore like back in the 1970s when I got it, as there are antiviral creams you can use now.

"I was talking to my mom when she said that she thinks he has herpes".

Go to the doctor because I would have herpes too.

Wow. Your mom and I are roughly the same age. Echoing others here that have said to get some education, son. ;)

u need to educate yourself and realise that the type of herpes she is talking about is extemely common and over half the world has it already and it isnt anything to do with sexual contact at all. also google is quicker and more helpfull than forums like this

Shignles is a disease you get having Chicken pox. Thats all I kknow

Yeah, shingles is real and ultra-painful. If you have had chicken pox in your life, then you technically have shingles already. You're just kind of waiting for it to flare back up again.

Just check it out on wikipedia/google/anywhere but SG really. And, at the very least, be nice to your mom, yo.

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make a thread about it on steamgifts ✓

Any thread/post with "what do you do when you find out your mom" = dis gonna b gud

"Like, should I just act as if she doesn't have it, or should I avoid her like the plague?"
I think contact with lesions should be avoided when they're visible, otherwise most of the time there's not much risk.

"so I don't know why all of the sudden now she's getting herpes instead of back when she had it"
It's cyclic, it can show up at any time and the rest of the time, just be present as latent but invisible and almost not contagious.

But...that's as far as my knowledge of this virus goes. And I don't know anything about that Shingles you're mentioning.

Fun fact : technically, Viruses aren't considered alive beings, they're some kind of "zombie" beings.

This is the wrong place to ask this, we gamers are no medics, if we were, we wouldn't have enough time to play with our beloved games, so go ask a real doctor.

For the record, all of this other information is moot anyway.

You should always support and take care of your mother. You should never "avoid her like the plague". In most cases, your mother will have sacrificed far more than you'll ever realize for you. Try and return the favor a least a little.