Mono can be dangerous and even fatal.
Although for most people mono is nothing serious and usually goes away on it's own.
For most people, mono isn't serious, and it improves without treatment.
Still, extreme fatigue, body aches and other symptoms can interfere with school, work and daily life.
With mono, you might feel sick for about a month.
Occasionally, your spleen or liver may also swell, but mononucleosis is rarely ever fatal.
Mono is hard to distinguish from other common viruses such as the flu.
If your symptoms don't improve after 1 or 2 weeks of home treatment such as resting, getting enough fluids, and eating healthy foods, see your doctor.
A person can get mono more than once but normally people gets mono only once.
It's rare that a person gets infected with mono more than once but it can and does sometimes happen.
Most of the time, a person will have mononucleosis once.
However, it is possible to experience mono twice.
Since the body develops immunity to the virus after contracting the infection, most people do not experience mono twice.
However, in some cases, symptoms can reoccur months after acquiring the initial infection.
In some cases Mono can be a lifelong disease although some people do get over the Mono eventually.
Mono is a pretty serious disease and sometimes can be lifelong while other times the Mono can be cured but it all depends on how far the Mono has progressed before treated.
When you have Mono you may have fatigue for a few weeks after the illness was treated or has gone away and sometimes the fatigue may continue for 6 months to a year.
Dying from Mono is also possible but very rarely does Mono become life threatening or cause death in the person who has Mono.
Death from Mono usually happens because of other complications such as a ruptured spleen so if you have a ruptured spleen it needs surgery right away before it gets too bad and cause death.
If you leave Mono untreated it can lead to inflammation of the liver and development of hepatitis.
So you need to get treated for the Mono if you do have it because it can become very serious.
If you have a ruptured spleen you'll have sharp pain in the abdomen which then needs immediate surgery to fix.