Genital HSV - is a serious disease, and its exacerbation may have bad influence on child's health.
Pregnancy is a very difficult but also happy period of life. At the same time pregnancy is a kind of stress for woman's body. Such pictures as change of endocrine profile, physiologic changes and decrease in immunity can't be avoided. So, before future pregnancy, every woman has to pass the inspection and take a course of preventive treatment if it is necessary.
Does herpes during pregnancy provokes child's contamination?
It is enough to have genital herpes once during pregnancy or even have small symptoms of it, and you will never cure it. Women with genital problems will be dangerous to their babies as they may have HSV outbreak at any time. But sometimes babies aren't contaminated. It depends on the severity of symptoms during pregnancy.
If an expectant mother got this disease for the first time, probably her child would also have it, especially if she had first outbreak and visible symptoms about the time of delivery.
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It can happen that a fetus may be contaminated through the placenta (only if pregnant woman got genital herpes for the first time during first trimester). Nevertheless, such thing isn't common. Herpes facts
Doctors advise to do a cesarean delivery in order to decrease the risk of child's contamination, if woman has genital sores. Herpes in babies
The easiest pictures of herpes in children are sores on any part of baby's body. First of all, it appears on places that have been hurt. But baby can be treated very quickly by prompt cure with intravenous acyclovir. However, there can be serious outbreaks or even long-term problems.
Other part of infants with HSV may have much more serious symptoms. This is because disease affects the central nervous system. Pictures are usually seen during the first month after birth. Herpes incubation period
The rest of babies may suffer from disseminated HSV. Pictures show that such kind of HSV involves many organs, especially liver and lungs. What is more, it can't be recognized by external pictures as very often there are no blisters on the skin. Mothers should observe the state of health of their infants and recognize different symptoms particularly during the first week. You should understand the importance of prompt treatment because such form of herpes is very serious. Unfortunately, consequences can be sorrowful. Some part of these children won't pull through. The rest will live with different health problems and slow intellectual or physical growth and development. As a rule a life of patients is short.
All in all, when married couple plans pregnancy in the offing, they should pass the complex examination to avoid this misfortune. Be attentive: not only future mother should do it, but father as well. Even if a woman doesn't have any symptoms of genital problems during pregnancy, she may be contaminated by her partner.
You can take a course of HSV treatment during pregnancy which would help to deliver healthy infant.
Don't be afraid, child's contamination isn't a usual thing. With good care of mother's health there would be no problems.