this sounds weird, but how do you get mono? what exactley is it anyways? why is it so bad?
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Here are a few sites that will help in understanding mono.
http://familydoctor.org/077.xml
http://www.medicinenet.com/infectious_mononucleosis/article.htm
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mono is a kissing infection that is passed on by multiple missing partners and it can affect your body way more then you think my Friend had mono for a year and he had to go to the doc. for a year for treatment so yeah its hard to tell who has mono but don go around kiss a lot of people
It's called the kissing disease, its bad because it can affect your spleen. There is no drug that can cure it. People can feel really sick and tired, if they over do any physical activity their spleen could rupture.
Most people who get mono are between the ages of 10 and 25. The mono virus affects your lymph nodes, throat, salivary glands, liver, spleen, and blood, and it can make you lose your appetite and feel tired and achy all over. Salivary glands are located inside of your mouth - on the inside of your cheeks and under your tongue - and produce saliva, or spit. Your spleen is located on the left side of your abdomen, just under the rib cage, and it helps cleanse your blood of bacteria and viruses.
Mono is contagious, which means you can easily spread the virus to other people who haven't had mono before. Even though you can get mono from kissing someone infected with EBV, there are also other ways you can get it, but they all involve contact with saliva. Coughing (while not covering your mouth) on someone or sharing pillows, straws, toothbrushes, or food from the same plate also spread mono.
If you get mono, you can infect other people for up to 6 months afterward. At first, people usually don't feel sick after getting infected with the EBV virus. So someone could have mono - and be spreading it - and not even know it. That's why it's important not to share things like forks, straws, or lip gloss at school.
Mono is not only "caught " via kissing. I got it a couple of years ago, and yeah. I didn't kiss anyone. I missed a week of school because I was just so wiped out. You just get really really tired and you lose interest in stuff. I only had it bad for that week, but you still feel kinda drowsy for a month or so afterwards.
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