While genital herpes or an HSV-2 infection may be more common in women, this is because it is easier for an infected male to transmit the disease to female partners than it is for a female to give the disease to any male. The Center for Disease Control Statistics show that in the age group [...]
Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2 are incurable viral infections which cycle through resting periods where there are no signs or symptoms of the disease, and flare-ups or outbreaks. Since there is no cure and you can be affected with outbreaks for the rest of your life, managing the outbreaks becomes a lifestyle if you want [...]
There are many things for new moms to think about but genital herpes and pregnancy should be at the top of their list. First off, if you have been diagnosised with herpes or you believe that you could have it, the first and most important thing for you to do is to talk to your [...]
Herpes outbreaks are the leading symptom of the herpes simplex virus. Those that have this disease are likely to spread it from one person to the next without realizing it. In fact, here are some startling statistics about it.Up to 50 to 80 percent of adults have oral herpes, or the herpes simplex virus type [...]
What Do They Look And Feel Like? Herpes sores are one of the worst parts of those that have the herpes simplex virus. HSV, as it is called, is a disease that targets specific regions of the body, depending on what form of the disease you have.Yet, one thing is the same from one of [...]
How To Protect Yourself Are you living with genital herpes? Genital herpes prevention is an important topic to talk about within your family and with anyone that is or will be sexually active. This virus infects millions of people every year. One out of every six people that is sexually active as teenagers or older [...]
Finding out about the optimum diet to help you control herpes only makes sense. Nutrition can play a big role in our health at any time. Eating the right or healthy things for our body can help us manage stress and feel good enough to be active. The wrong things can bog us down and [...]
Neither genital nor oral herpes have a cure. They are treatable and there is research being done to provide more treatment options for herpes, and to find a cure for these two types of viral infections. Herpes infections are hard to treat and do research on for a cure, because the virus hides in nerve [...]
Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2 are incurable viral infections which cycle through resting periods where there are no signs or symptoms of the disease, and flare-ups or outbreaks. Since there is no cure and you can be affected with outbreaks for the rest of your life, managing the outbreaks becomes a lifestyle if you want [...]
Currently there is no cure for genital herpes. Treatment goals for this viral disease are to provide relief from the symptoms, which can include painful sores, and to shorten the ten to fifteen days it typically takes for an outbreak to heal. A secondary treatment goal would be to lengthen the time between outbreaks or [...]