When you have primary HSV, you may confuse its symptoms with flu, allergy or simply with pimples. In this case, you may lose time, during which there is a chance to stop the development of symptoms. If you are not sure what disease you have got, obviously you should visit a doctor.
But with the following HSV outbreaks, you will know what redness, itching, burning and sometimes rise in temperature mean.
Typical HSV pictures
HSV can provoke pictures on lips, nose, around mouth or even in mouth cavity as well as on genitals and around them. The place of affection depends on the type of HSV: type 1 is the pathogen of oral form, while type 2 causes genital herpes. What is genital herpes?
First outbreak usually causes more discomfort than next ones. This is because, your body hasn't already had antibodies to fight with the contagion. For this reason, some patients suffer from muscle pain, headache, rise in temperature or common fatigue during the first recurrence. It is not necessary to have an outbreak immediately after the contact with person that shows visible symptoms of HSV. Herpes may be imperceptible until you have some kind of stress. It can be overcooling, fatigue, different diseases, not getting enough sleep, alcohol or drugs, poor feeding and other factors that affect our immune system. What is herpes?
If your skin becomes red, you feel burning, itching, but still there are no present symptoms - then in a day or two blisters will appear on these affected places. But, if it is a recurrence, wheals are likely to emerge on the place of first affection. Such pictures as blisters are usually present during 3-4 days. They contain clear fluid, which later becomes turbid. After several days, they are covered with crust and look like sores.
Sores are healing during some days. This process could be hastened, if you wouldn't touch or remove these pictures. Of course, it doesn't look pretty, but tearing this crust away won't help you, as sores may begin to bleed. What is herpes simplex?
Unfortunately, herpes will be present in your body forever. There is only a small variation between the amount of outbreaks and the severity of symptoms in different patients.
If you want to forget about this contagion or reduce the number of these annoying pictures, you should start to strengthen immunity. Immunologist will help you to do it correctly and effectively. Such course includes taking medicines that increase immunity and keeping to the health way of life. It means eating vitamins, going in for sport, having normal sleep, getting rid of all bed habits. These measures will reduce the possibility of pictures' appearance again.
But, if an individual experiences a lot of herpes outbreaks and quite severe symptoms, then he can't do without medical help. There are a lot of medicines that are able to suppress visible pictures at the first days of an outbreak and pills that could reduce the activity of contagion inside your body.