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Written by Smith Johnson
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Herpes infections never go away. Once HSV (Herpes Simplex Virus) has invaded a human body and attached itself to the nerve cells, it will stay there and replicate itself as long as its host is alive. However, it does not always have measurable effects on its host's daily life. Viruses are the smallest form of living thing, smaller than the smallest bacteria and human cells. They are so small that they can slip through microscopic holes in traditional lambskin condoms. Latex provides fairly good protection, but only if the semen carrying the virus does not leak into the partner's body during sex. |
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Written by Smith Johnson
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Herpes is a chronic disease, but it responds well to treatment. A patient who believes (s) he may have been infected by herpes can prepare for a visit to the doctor by familiarizing herself with the questions a doctor might ask and preparing some questions she might wish to ask herself.
A doctor will want to know if the patient has had cold sores on the mouth, or rashes anywhere between the thigh and the waist, either in the recent or the more distant past. She will also ask the patient to describe any current symptoms, and prompt him for details of his sex life -- the date he last had sex, the frequency with which he uses condoms, the number of partners he's had, and the areas of his body that might have come in contact with the virus during sex. The doctor will also want to find what he knows about his sexual partners. To the best of his knowledge, did any of them have genital herpes? |
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Herpes Causes And Risk Factors* |
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Written by Smith Johnson
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Genital herpes is a chronic disease with annoying symptoms. In some cases, it causes outbreaks of itchiness, painful sores and blisters in intimate places such as the anus, the vagina, the thighs or the lips. However, many infected people have no symptoms, or their symptoms are so mild as to go unnoticed. Herpes is unlikely to cause many problems for otherwise healthy adults. |
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