Where can I get a facts sheet on herpes?!
Question: Where can I get a facts sheet on herpes!?
NOT VALTREX!!! Everytime I see their commercials I cringe!. Especially considering the fact that herpes is not transmitable unless the virus itself is on the skin!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
There are 2 types - oral and genital
-Oral herpes can be caught NON-sexually pretty easily - and prefers to live on the face area - usually the mouth but can attach to your nose or eyes!. It causes cold sores on the mouth which can be transmitted to someone else by kissing, oral sex OR sharing make-up very easily!!!
-Genital herpes attaches to the southern region - usually ON the genitals!. I've also heard of it being on the BACK or thighs!. It's contracted by sex (oral, anal or regular sex)!. SOME cases of contracting it from sharing wet towels and washcloths with someone with an open outbreak!.
FYI - condoms only cover the penis shaft and the inner walls of the vagina - so if the herpes sore is anywhere else (which it usually is!!) like on a scrotum, thighs or pu$$y lips - you can still catch it!
The oral type looks like cold sores - they tingle, itch, scab & then go away!. The genital type tingles, itches, then looks like a cluster of small white blisters - until they break - then it looks like open ulcers that scab up & go away!.
People with herpes are contagious from the very 1st tingle or ITCH until the scabs fall off & they have new skin again!.
Most people contract herpes in the "tingling & itching" stage because sometimes it's hard to spot until you actually see sores!
1 in 3 people have herpes - I think the 1 in 5 stat is the people who are aware they have it!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
-Oral herpes can be caught NON-sexually pretty easily - and prefers to live on the face area - usually the mouth but can attach to your nose or eyes!. It causes cold sores on the mouth which can be transmitted to someone else by kissing, oral sex OR sharing make-up very easily!!!
-Genital herpes attaches to the southern region - usually ON the genitals!. I've also heard of it being on the BACK or thighs!. It's contracted by sex (oral, anal or regular sex)!. SOME cases of contracting it from sharing wet towels and washcloths with someone with an open outbreak!.
FYI - condoms only cover the penis shaft and the inner walls of the vagina - so if the herpes sore is anywhere else (which it usually is!!) like on a scrotum, thighs or pu$$y lips - you can still catch it!
The oral type looks like cold sores - they tingle, itch, scab & then go away!. The genital type tingles, itches, then looks like a cluster of small white blisters - until they break - then it looks like open ulcers that scab up & go away!.
People with herpes are contagious from the very 1st tingle or ITCH until the scabs fall off & they have new skin again!.
Most people contract herpes in the "tingling & itching" stage because sometimes it's hard to spot until you actually see sores!
1 in 3 people have herpes - I think the 1 in 5 stat is the people who are aware they have it!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
CDC Fact sheet http://www!.cdc!.gov/std/herpes/STDFact-he!.!.!.
As for herpes transmissibility, it has been shown in numerous studies that people shed virus from their skin WITH NO LESIONS!. Estimates gauge that the most contagious herpes cases can shed up to 1 in every 3 days (or 10 days out of every month)!. The point is, we cannot visually determine whether a person is currently contagious with herpes!. That is why drugs like Valtrex are important for many patients: it cuts their viral load and reduces the amount of virus they shed, meaning fewer contagious days!.
In 2004, The New England Journal of Medicine published an Italian study that showed that serodiscordant couples could cut their risk HUGELY by maintaining a regimen of both consistent condom use and suppressive drug therapy!.
But anyway, you don't have to take a drug company's word for it!. The CDC is the most reliable source out there!. And I have no financial gain on Y!A!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
As for herpes transmissibility, it has been shown in numerous studies that people shed virus from their skin WITH NO LESIONS!. Estimates gauge that the most contagious herpes cases can shed up to 1 in every 3 days (or 10 days out of every month)!. The point is, we cannot visually determine whether a person is currently contagious with herpes!. That is why drugs like Valtrex are important for many patients: it cuts their viral load and reduces the amount of virus they shed, meaning fewer contagious days!.
In 2004, The New England Journal of Medicine published an Italian study that showed that serodiscordant couples could cut their risk HUGELY by maintaining a regimen of both consistent condom use and suppressive drug therapy!.
But anyway, you don't have to take a drug company's word for it!. The CDC is the most reliable source out there!. And I have no financial gain on Y!A!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
www!.westchestergov!.com/health/genitalher!.!.!.
www!.cdc!.gov/std/herpes/stdfact-heapes!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
www!.cdc!.gov/std/herpes/stdfact-heapes!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
You can get one at your doctor's office, the local health department, or go to WEBMD for info!.Www@Answer-Health@Com