Genital herpes
simplex is a sexually transmitted disease caused usually by the herpes simplex
virus type 2.
This is not
the type1 virus that causes cold sores around the mouth, but it is a kin to it.
This disease accounts for 10-15% of all sexually transmitted diseases.
SYMPTOMS
The first
evidence in a new case of genital herpes simplex occurs two to seven days after
sexual contact with a person who harbors this infection.
Those symptoms
are –
a. Fever
b. Easy fatigue
c. Painful swelling of the genital
d. The skin of the affected area becomes
reddish or reddened
e. Painful ulcers[blisters]
f. The ulcers heals in about ten days
with or without treatment.
MODE OF
TRANSMISSION
The disease
may remain in the body for life, and is mostly transmitted from one person to
another through sexual intercourse, kissing, use of contaminated materials,
blood transfusion, expectant mother who has genital herpes simplex virus runs a
10-50% risk of transmitting the infection to her child when the child passes
through the contaminated birth canal.
The death
rate for this infection in new born infants approaches 50%.
CURE
The allopathic
medical practitioners said that there is no cure for herpes simplex virus, but
there are good alternative remedies for the treatment of herpes, if not herpes
could have been another HIV/AIDS case.
ADVICE
Genital herpes
simplex increases cancer of the uterine cervix by about 5 times. It is therefore
advised that women with this infection should have a pelvic examination at
least once or twice a year.
That pregnant
woman with herpes simplex virus should deliver their baby by caesarian
operations to reduce the rate of newborn infants.
