PSA: Fifths Disease in Pregnancy

BelhurstBride · July 2017

I guess this post is mostly for STM+ and those who work with or near young children.

1) Fifths Disease (parvovirusB19) doesn't present in adults the same as is does in children. Most adults don't get the rash after the flu-like symptoms, but instead get awful joint pain. And for me personally, the flu like symptoms were significantly worse than anything DD1 had. In fact, the rash was a surprise, she never even had a fever.

2) It can be pretty dangerous in pregnancy. Thankfully one of DD1's classmate's mothers mentioned having the joint pain and it being parvo or it never would have dawned on me that that was what I had.

Just wanted to let everyone know, if you've been around someone with fifths you might want to mention it to your care provider.

barrelocarol · July 2017

Yikes. Thanks for the info. Haven't heard of this.

ashhsa · July 2017

Yes- thanks for sharing, never heard of this!

mpp06 · July 2017

So sorry to hear you got it! *Most* people had it when they were little and are immune, but yes def mention it to your dr! I had a scare with my first pregnancy bc one if my nephew's had it.

TattoosandLace · July 2017

I had it summer between freshman and sophomore years of high school while on a band trip to D.C. It suuuuucked.

mommaSG · July 2017

Thanks for sharing in August i start work as a tss worker and following children around whom have autism so i now i know more of what can happen while bei g arou d a lot of kids

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