How do you know your over the contageous part of MONO?

Question

i reciently found out that my symptoms are coming back to being mono.. how do i know when i'm not contageous anymore... can hugging someone give them mono? help

Answer 1

If you are in the contagious period of the mono then there is a chance that a hug will pass it on to someone else.  It is hard to tell when you are not contagious anymore because the virus is with you for life.

Once someone gets mono, the virus stays in that person's body for life. But this doesn't mean that if you've had mono you are always contagious. Over time, the virus becomes less contagious. Eventually, it's very unlikely that a person who had mono will transmit the virus to someone else.

People who have mono can be contagious from the time they first become infected with the virus. But they may not know that they have the virus in its early stages. That's because it takes a while from the time a person is infected to the time symptoms of mono show up — about 4 to 7 weeks in fact. (This is called the incubation period.)

To make it even more confusing, some people can carry the virus without having any symptoms of mono, so they might not know they have the infection at all.

Mono needs to run its course naturally over about 2 to 4 weeks — and some people feel tired for several weeks longer.