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Did I give someone pulmonary fibrosis?
I had mononucleosis. Maybe six months later, the elderly person I was had been living with when I got mono getting symptoms of what turned out to be pulmonary fibrosis, with reason for getting it not known. Now I'm wondering if I gave her my mono and that caused the pulmonary fibrosis?
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- The momLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's not likely that you had anything to do with the person developing pulmonary fibrosis. The fibrosis is caused by scarring in the lungs beyond the normal amount you'd normally expect to see in response to things. In cases of idiopathic fibrosis, you don't have a direct cause or contributing factor, and it's not that unusual to hear this diagnosis when they eliminate major causes. There is even some suspicion that it can have a genetic factor, since in some cases it seems to run in a family. Whatever triggered it, it was not in response to your mono, and you don't need to worry or blame yourself.
Source(s): nurse - 1 decade ago
That doesn't sound very likely. It's much more likely that it's a genetic thing.
They almost certainly would have been showing the symptoms of mono shortly after YOU got them - if that didn't happen, the fibrosis was probably already in the works when you got there.
Don't beat yourself up.
