# Cunnilingus with a sore throat / head cold / sinus infection ??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 14, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208 "2010-06-14T22:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208/1 "2010-06-14T22:21:11Z")
Are there any sicknesses housed in the face / throat / respiratory tract that would be hazardous in a face-to-vaginal transmission? If a woman receives cunnilingus from a partner who has strep throat, could she get strep vagina? Strep throat is just provided as a single example, if the answer is NO for strep, would the answer be YES for any other sickness from the chest up? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208/2 "2010-06-14T23:10:21Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Are there any sicknesses housed in the face / throat / respiratory tract that would be hazardous in a face-to-vaginal transmission? > > If a woman receives cunnilingus from a partner who has strep throat, could she get strep vagina? > > Strep throat is just provided as a single example, if the answer is NO for strep, would the answer be YES for any other sickness from the chest up? Well kids can get [rectal and vaginal strep](http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/2/276) just from more casual contact so it hardly seems a stretch to think that adults could as well, albeit the environment is a bit different. Certainly Herpes Simplex Type 1 (HSV1), usually an oral organism, is found as a genital infection now, having travelled by that means - and HSV2 is in oral areas by the reverse. Of course there is the old joke about two doctors talking about there interesting cases of the day: Dr 1: I never saw it before! Would you believe it? Gonorrhea of the Big Toe! Dr. 2: Meh. I just had a lady in with athlete’s vagina! ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208/3 "2010-06-15T02:10:40Z")
It’s certainly possible- [cite](http://books.google.com/books?id=-wWY1_mSeq0C&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=urethral+infections+NGU+strep+cmv&source=bl&ots=7UrcPygrT5&sig=8uoiBMplGUklHKmOjtaUJuUn_mQ&hl=en&ei=O-AWTLvQDcGC8gaQ4Y27CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false)(last paragraph on that page of a Google book). And of course, there’s always Group B strep which is a deadly lil’ bacteria for newborns passing though the vaginal canal, and all sorts of other pathogens that can enter the body from the Vaginal route, but it’s not the most common causes certainly. But if you’re asking “is it possible” then the quick and dirty answer would be “yes, it’s possible.” ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208/4 "2010-06-16T09:50:14Z")
Oral thrush would be another; and herpes (simplex B) I think. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cunnilingus-with-a-sore-throat-head-cold-sinus-infection/543208/5 "2010-06-16T11:15:47Z")
Actually no to the thrush - Candida (the yeast that is thrush) is is both areas all the time, infections depend upon something happening that allows the yeast to overgrow, such as antibiotic use, stress, other illness such as diabetes, etc.