subject: How To Stop Herpes Attacks [print this page] Herpes is not something that anybody likes to have, especially as a noticeable cold sore affixed to your face. Fortunately, there are some researchers working very hard to develop a drug that will provide quicker diagnosis and therefore enhance the cure for herpes. Although the drugs for herpes can't make it go away instantly, they can reduce the amount and length of the herpes outbreak.
Symptoms of herpes infection are not necessarily prominent. In fact for the most part, they are non-existent but when they do show, they appear as blisters in the genital areas. In time these blisters burst, leaving painful sores which heal in the course of about a month. This appearance of the sores is referred to as a herpes outbreak. Outbreaks can occur from a few weeks to a few months apart.
An effective cure for herpes is actually medication which can only be consumed orally or intravenously. When you first get herpes is the most severe period and an antiviral medication can help to reduce the pain quite a bit.
The outbreak of Type2 HSV is perceived in the genital regions. Again burning, itching and the like are the indicators of an eruption. The time of eruption varies from person to person. Some people might experience the spate just once a year while others may be afflicted by it twice or thrice a year at a specific time.
Researches are working to find a quick cure for herpes but hope to at least get a vaccine available in the next three to five years. The vaccine will be good to prevent the herpes disease entirely, allowing you to have little worry. Right now there are two control methods being checked out. One is a type of antiviral cure for herpes while the other is an immunotherapy cure for herpes.
When shingles attacks the person may undergo itching, blister or blister like sores with burning feeling around them, fever, weariness, body ache and tingling. While these outcomes are common with type1 and type2 herpes, loss of vision peculiarly belongs to shingles. Elderly people affected by shingles might experience neuralgia (a sharp pain felt along a nerve particularly in the head or brain) and lingering.
Lot of research has been done on all forms of herpes. Thus, good medication is available for this disease. Treatment usually varies from the kind of HSV infection. Nowadays, the antiviral drugs such as acyclovir, famciclovir, valacyclovir are very effective in controlling herpes. Many anti- inflammation ointments/ lotions etc. are prescribed to reduce the burning, irritation and heal the sores. Besides the drug therapies there are other steps involved in averting the threat of herpes. For instance maintenance of personal hygiene in terms of food, utensils and surroundings, careful and safe sex and last but not the least the building up of a strong immunity system via adopting a rich balanced diet.
