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Question: What is the difference between genital herpes and mouth herpes?????
Answers: What is the difference between genital herpes and mouth herpes?????
Common genital herpes symptoms include the appearance of small red bumps, blisters or open sores on the vagina or areas surrounding the vagina. Women may also experience vaginal discharge, fever, headache, muscle aches and pain during urination. The glands of the vaginal area may also experience swelling, and itching and burning may also occur. Men with genital herpes will experience blisters, bumps or open sores on the penis and surrounding area. Medication can reduce the severity of the symptoms of genital herpes, but symptoms may reappear. There is no cure for the disease.
Oral herpes is an infection caused by the herpes simplex virus. The virus causes painful sores on your lips, gums, tongue, roof of your mouth, and inside your cheeks. It also can cause symptoms such as fever and muscle aches. The herpes simplex virus affects only humans. Mouth sores most commonly occur in children aged 1-2 years, but they can affect people at any age and any time of the year. People contract herpes by touching infected saliva, mucous membranes, or skin. Because the virus is highly contagious, most people have been infected by at least 1 herpes subtype before adulthood. After the herpes virus infects you, it has a rather unique ability to proceed to 3 stages. Primary infection: The virus enters your skin or mucous membrane and reproduces. During this stage, oral sores and other symptoms, such as fever, may develop.The virus may not cause any sores and symptoms. You may not know that you have it. This is called asymptomatic infection. Asymptomatic infection occurs twice as often as the disease with symptoms.
Latency: From the infected site, the virus moves to a mass of nervous tissue in your spine called the dorsal root ganglion. There the virus reproduces again and becomes inactive.
Recurrence: When you encounter certain stresses, emotional or physical, the virus may reactivate and cause new sores and symptoms.
There are two types of herpes, HSV1 and HSV2. HSV1 is most commonly associated with oral herpes and HSV2 is most commonly associated with genital herpes. However, either virus can appear in the other location. This is why herpes can be transmitted through oral sex. For example, some that has a cold sore performs oral sex on their partner and transmitts the virus. This can cause the person to have genital herpes that are caused by HSV1, and the opposite is true as well.