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Too often, the herpes remained a taboo topic of which one speaks with difficulty. The uneasiness that surrounds it is a brake to information on this illness. Without wanting to replace a medical consultation, we propose you to answer the most frequent questions. 1 - the herpes: a virus, a mushroom or a microbe?The herpes is a virus that remains to life in the organism. A virus exists for the labial herpes (HSV1) and another for the genital herpes (HSV2). The herpes can sometimes give some symptoms. Example: the button of fever. As all viral illness, the herpes is very infectious. In France, 10 millions of people are touched by the virus. The genital herpes would concern 2 millions of individuals. The genital herpes is a sexually transferable illness. 2 - is this a mycosis? No, it is not a mycosis because the herpes is not caused by a mushroom but by a virus. But one can confound the genital herpes with a mycosis because the symptoms are near: itches, tingles... It is therefore important to be going to consult his physician; only he will know how to put the good diagnosis. 3 - I have a relapsing mycosis that doesn't yield to the treatment. Is it possible that it was rather about of genital herpes? Genital herpes and mycosis are often bound two pathologies. The herpes can be a door of entry to other infections and can encourage the installation of a candidose (mycosis due to the Candida mushroom). The clinical signs of the two pathologies being near, confusion is current. It is therefore possible. Speak of it to your physician. 4 - how one of the genital herpes catches? The genital herpes is a sexually transferable illness. The contamination makes itself the most often while having some sexual intercourse with a person bearer of the virus. The only contact with skin or genitalia are sufficient to transmit the illness. 5 - when I was able to catch it and am I infectious? You have been contaminated a long time ago by a person bearer of the virus and have had any thrust never during numerous years. The herpes is a very infectious sexually transferable illness. The risk of contagion is more important if the sexual partner is in period of thrust (presence of symptoms). The risk exists even though the partner doesn't have any obvious symptoms, but he is weak. The use of the condom is therefore greatly counseled during and between the thrusts. In period of crisis, abstinence remains the best protection. 6 - is it bound to hygiene? No, one doesn't catch the virus because one has a bad hygiene. One contracts it solely while having some sexual intercourse with a person bearer of the virus. On the other hand, when one is carrier of the virus and during the periods of thrusts, it is necessary to have a strict hygiene: your physician will give you all convenient advice (to wash the hands, to avoid to touch themselves the eyes, not to dampen his contact lenses with saliva...). 7 - what are the fashions of contamination?  The virus transmits itself by direct contact between skin and the mucous membranes, the most often at the time of the sexual intercourse. The transmission can also make itself at the time of a direct contact with skin and genitalia at the time of the génito-genital reports, but as oro-genital and ano-genital. The virus doesn't meet in the semen. The direct contacts with skin and the mucous membranes at the time of the sexual relations are responsible for the transmission of the virus. The topic carrier of the HSV1 virus, outside of the periods of crises of labial herpes, can excrete the virus of way asymptomatique (that means without clinical signs): the virus is recovered then in saliva. This topic can transmit the virus effectively by a kiss, for example.
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