Is glandular fever risky during pregnancy?
Don’t worry. Your wife does not need to be concerned. Glandular fever, or infectious mononucleosis, as doctors like to call it, is not in fact very infectious (contagious) at all. It is not passed from one person to another like the common cold, and even family members in close contact with one another hardly ever catch it from each other. Glandular fever is much more commonly seen in the teenage age group as opposed to your wife’s age group, and although it is not unheard of at her age, it is uncommon. Even if she were to develop glandular fever, there isn’t even a remote possibility that the unborn baby could be harmed as a side effect of the illness. Although in severe cases of glandular fever, the patient does sometimes develop mild jaundice with enlargement of the liver and spleen as well as the enlargement of the lymph glands. Now that your wife is seven months pregnant, most infections, but especially glandular fever, would be most unlikely to cause any harm to the baby. It is n
