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Can you get glandular fever more than once?


Can you get glandular fever more than once?

no Glandular fever usually takes two to four weeks and resolves itself without complications. In about 3 per cent of all cases, it goes on longer. After having the disease, a person will have lifelong immunity to it, so will not catch it again.

In rare cases, there are complications. Possible, but rare, complications are:


the respiratory passages may become partially blocked.


pneumonia.


the spleen may rupture - this happens in 0.1 to 0.2 per cent of all cases.


the central nervous system may be infected by the virus and can cause complications like meningitis or encephalitis.


anaemia.


the number of blood platelets may decrease (thrombocytopenia).


in rare cases, the disease may become serious and chronic.

Yes you can xxxx

I think you can but it probably wouldnt be as severe the second time

Opinions about this are different. Anyway, it's sure that you are infectious in the incubation period. The incubation period is the time that you are infected with the virus, but it doesn't produce symptoms. The incubation time lasts 4 to 6 weeks. After that time the chance of infecting others decreases, but the virus stays in the throat. So you can infect others for some years (or for your whole life, but nobody knows for sure).
Well, there are differing opinions about this. A doctor will probably say that you can only get Glandular fever once. But some people have had other experiences with it when the virus appeared in their blood tests twice. But in general you can get it just once.

Yes, I did!

yep, thats y it can sometimes stop u getin in the army especially if u want to be in da infantry, cos it can come back at n e time

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