Herpes symptoms
The primary symptoms of the outbreak: Many people have no symptoms. Others may have symptoms so mild that they do not recognize the symptoms of a herpes. Still, perhaps the painful attack, involving the whole body, and can feel very ill for several weeks.
Symptoms may be flu type including: headache, bolyaschy joint pain, fatigue, fever and pain in the legs. Lymph nodes in pahu often enlarged and tender and may feel great peas under the surface of the skin. Symptoms can include genital ulcers (often on both sides of the genital organs), painful urination, itching and discharge from the vagina or penis.
Ulcers and blisters begin often grouped in clusters. After the blister stage, they break open and form ulcers on the skin or mucous membrane. Crusts or scabs form over the ulcer and eventually fall off and tissue heals. Women tend to have lesions on the cervix, and men can have them inside the penis. Infected cells sloughed from the cervix and the internal reason for discharge from the penis of men and women. Often the new crop of herpes lesions appear 5-7 days after the first batch is considered. Typical main outbreak will last for 2-3 weeks.
Non-primary outbreak of the symptoms: Keep in mind that the group had HSV-1 or oral herpes and is being subjected to HSV-2 or genital herpes. Existing antibody to HSV-1 allows the symptoms of HSV-2 is less serious or non-existent. Ulcers, usually cover a smaller area. The body of the symptoms described above, are less likely to occur. Recovery time is usually shorter.
Periodic outbreaks of symptoms: Most people have no symptoms of the body, as headache, fever, etc. with periodic outbreaks. Ulcers reach an even smaller area, often a person will see only one patient. Many people do not feel pain with their outbreaks. The average recurrence last about 2-10 days. The frequency of relapses vary widely.
Because the symptoms can be so soft and vague, men are often self-diagnose thinking one of them is the cause of his symptoms:
* Jock itch
* Lightning impulse
* Haemorrhoids
* Acne
* Tight jeans
* Bug bites
* Irritation from sex
* "This is normal scabies"
* Allergies condoms (this is scary, because they do not use condoms, and to expose their partners herpes)
* Bike seat rubs
Women are often self-diagnose the type of one of them is the cause of her symptoms:
* Yeast infection or some type of vaginitis
* Infections of the bladder
* Haemorrhoids
* Irritation from sex
* Heat rash
* Irritation from it
* Allergy to semen, condoms, spermicidal, tights or hygiene products
* Bike seat rubs
* Irritation from shaving
Herpes diagnosis
This makes it difficult to diagnose symptoms of herpes, or looking for anthrax. Sometimes lesions have a different view, they may be a slight crack or fissure in the tissue or present as itching, no pain. Conversely, sometimes pain can look very suspicious to herpes, but it is not herpes. Here are the most commonly used laboratory tests for herpes:
* Culture and smear of the ulcer: This is a high false negative rate, which means that he often reports of negative culture, where people really have herpes.
* Polymerase chain reaction (PCR): This test is very similar to culture, but it is much higher sensitivity. This is 4 times more sensitive than traditional culture. PCR is more expensive than traditional culture.
* Blood tests: Herpes blood to look for antibodies to the herpes virus. The body develops antibodies to fight the virus, but these antibodies may take some time to develop in the blood. It is important to wait 3-4 months from the time you think you are subjected to obtain blood. Newer blood are accurate, and can tell the difference between HSV-1 and HSV-2.
How do you get herpes?
Most children with HSV from the mouth become quite innocently. They have probably just kissed a family member, which hurts. Many people with cold sores "do not understand that herpes, and can be easily transmitted from one person to another, kissing or sharing towels, etc. They also do not understand, they can spread the virus without having a cold sore or other symptoms.
Genital herpes spreads through sexual contact, including:
* Intercourse
* Outercourse or genital areas of friction with direct contact with skin or clothes among the partners.
* Autoinoculation or transmission of the virus from one part of the body to another. For example, if a man asked his mouth, and then destroyed his or her own area of sexuality, after urinating, without a good hand-washing, he or she can spread infection to other parts of the body. It does not happen often.
* Oral to genital contact: HSV-1 or oral herpes can spread to sexual partners. In such a situation, the recipient of oral sex does not get HSV-2. Receiver will be HSV-1 in the genital area. Cold case may recur in the genital region, acting as well as HSV-2. Because oral sex has become more common, thus spreading the herpes has increased significantly in the last 10 years. If you have HSV-1 in the mouth, it is important that you prevent an outbreak occurs in the genital region with your partner.
* Oral genital contact: In this case, a person can acquire HSV-2 companies. Once again, it is important to protect your partner.
In 70 percent of patients, transfer or spread of the disease occurs when a person is aware that HSV is not the symptoms! The virus can be spread through microscopic tears in the skin. This is called asymptomatic viral shedding. The next blog will cover the treatment and prevention of the spread of HSV.