Are you contageous while taking antibiotics?

Answer 1

It depends on what you have. Bacterial infections are usually not very contagious - and I know you have a bacterial infection because antibiotics are useless for viral infections. You need to consult with your doctor and find out if you have something that would easily pass to another person or not.

Answer 2

The question is irrelevant: the disease of mononucleosis is caused by a virus, not a bacterium. Thus, antibiotics have absolutely no effect on the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis.

I will ignore the last part of your question, and answer the main section, asking if mononucleosis is contagious. The short answer is yes, more or less. But there is a longer, more detailed, answer.

As soon as the person is exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus, they are contagious. They remain contagious through the incubation period and the time the person shows symptoms. After the symptoms go away, the virus resides in the body harmlessly. but it is still contagious. As time passes, it becomes less contagious, and by eighteen months after symptoms disappear, it will be highly unlikely the disease will be transmitted.

Sources were the web link as follows: http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/common/mono_contagious.html.

Answer 3

Unfortunatley, mononucleosis can not be treated with antibiotics. I was misdiagnosed with it a few months ago and had to suffer with it because your body simply has to fight it off. Sorry ):