Are you certain it is not Impetigo?
You beat me to it. I was thinking impetigo. Can get really serious, mycoplasma can cause disfiguring painful oozing sores all over body. Poor child.
They tested the baby it is Herpes. Cold Sores are pretty common. They are very contagious and someone with an active outbreak who comes in contact with a child, particularly kissing a child, can give that virus to the child. Could have wiped mouth and touched childs face.
They rested the baby and it showed positive for herpes simplex 1. The initial outbreak of oral herpes tends to be pretty massive and painful.
Unless the baby has had chicken pox, he can’t get shingles. Shingles is a flare up of chickenpox.
Several years ago I knew a family who absolutely would not allow anybody to touch their infant, especially the baby’s hands. The first thing babys do is put their hands in their mouths, so any contaminants attached to them goes right into the mouth. Often times when strangers want to greet a baby, rather than kissing the child, they will touch the baby’s hands. So this family forbided anybody from doing that. It seemed rude, but wasn’t intended to be, just protective of the children they loved so much.
I’ve stopped touching baby’s that are so irresistably adorable for that very reason.
It used to be that brand new babies were never taken out in public to protect them from disease they couldn’t fight off. Anymore I see newborns without hats and sweaters or warm blankets around them in the middle of winter, nothing more than a receiving blanket thrown over a car seat swung from a handle on the way into a store from a parking lot.
They aren’t even held close under an adult’s coat to keep warm and dry. Ugggg...off the soapbox!
Possible