Genital Herpes - symptoms for Herpes
Genital Herpes - symptoms for Herpes
Genital Herpes - symptoms for Herpes
Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease which is caused by intimate contact between partners, affecting the skin especially the areas around your genitalia. Because the virus is passed between partners who are close, the virus is known as a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Herpes simplex virus as it is called has 2 main types.
Herpes simplex virus type1 (HSV-1)
Herpes simplex virus type2 (HSV-2)
The virus will enter the body through breaks in the skin or moist parts of your body including your mouth, rectum, urethra, and vagina and under the foreskin.
HSV-1 is most commonly connected with infections to the lips, face and mouth. This is the more common of the two types and can develop from early childhood. Symptoms will include cold sores in the mouth, or lesions or blisters, and sores to the eyes in the cornea.
HSV-2 is the more aggressive virus usually infecting people through sex. It is passed between two people whilst having sex (vaginal, anal or oral), and even if the infected person who has herpes is showing no symptoms they can still pass the virus on.
The virus can take 4-5 days to show after being infected for the first time, but some people may not even show symptoms at all, not for days, months or even years. Once the virus does show you will start to feel different types of symptoms such as,
Tiredness, headaches, just generally feeling unwell or under the weather, aches and pains, swollen glands, pain in the groin.
This will be followed by itching or stinging sensation to your genital or anal areas. The next stage is blisters or sores to the genital and anal area, the thighs and buttocks which eventually burst to inflict pain to the sufferer. This pain will be increased while passing urine and the urine going over the blisters.
Herpes simplex is a painful virus but especially so on the first outbreak, but the severity of the attacks decreases over time, but do not forget there is no cure for herpes, just a way to cure the pain and stop the virus from multiplying. Recurring infections can last for around a week, and they will usually start off with a tingling sensation, and flu like symptoms. You will still get the sores and blisters, but they are smaller, not as painful and you can control them more easily.
If you start with any of the symptoms mentioned above then you need to seek medical attention straight away, you can go to your local GUM clinic where you can be tested. It must be considered though that you may not have Herpes, but some other STI, so you still need to get yourself checked out. It is also imperative that if you get infected with the virus or any other STI, then you need to notify your partner, straight away, even if it is your spouse, or a casual sex partner.
Checks for the virus will usually be a swab of the infected area to extract some of the fluid, and a visual observation of an infected area. Treatment will be antiviral tablets taken sometimes up to 5 times a day, for 1 week. As stated earlier the medication is really just to help relieve the pain and symptoms, it can never actually heal the virus itself, but you can still ease the symptoms further by applying an ice pack on a area that is infected for 1 hour. You could also take a cool shower or apply a local anaesthetic ointment to further relieve pain.
To avoid any sexual transmitted disease it is always best to practice safe sex, using condoms, not being promiscuous. If you are your partner are actually infected with herpes or another disease, then avoid kissing in the affected areas like the mouth, and refrain from oral and anal sex when the virus is active. To find out more and information on other sexually transmitted diseases just go to Symptoms for herpes
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