The child might have a cold, a sore throat, or a fever and we just think that they have a virus. Sometimes, we look for it by taking a blood test or a urine sample, but only if the fever continues and the child appears to have an unusual presentation of a common childhood infection. There is no treatment for CMV in normal individuals. Patients with organ transplants or cancer can get CMV infection and die. Normal infants and children get better and most of the time we don't even know that the child had the infection.
Some babies become infected and they become retarded, deaf, and blind.
We usually diagnose that kind of CMV when the child is born. We see that the child is very small and the head is small and the eye exam and hearing tests are abnormal. Remember, though, that I mentioned some children can slowly simmer with CMV and develop problems with vision and hearing. The child should just be followed by the pediatrician. I think that I have exhausted this topic.