When you are having
genital herpes, what you need to do next is visiting the doctor to find the
best and proper genital herpes treatment.
Usually, the doctor will diagnose the genital herpes to make sure whether you
are really having genital herpes or not. It is important since in some cases
genital herpes is asymptomatic or occur without any present symptom. However,
some other may have common general symptom.
General symptom of
genital herpes is painful blister or sores that scab over your genital or
buttocks area. Commonly, it will be healed after several weeks. Besides that,
you may have some caking, re or raw skin around your genital area. This symptom
may happen with or without itching. Not only that, some pain is also happening
when you are urinating. Do not forget to also add fever, body aches and swollen
gland that also commonly happen as genital herpes symptom.
After you get diagnose,
doctor will provide some suggestion to take medical treatment. It is involving
the type of drugs and precaution to manage the genital herpes symptom. The main
point knows well about the type of treatment that you will take. Be sure to hold some routine visit to make
sure that you can find the proper and effective genital herpes treatment. At
least, with effective treatment will make you healed sooner
Not only healing you
sooner, effective genital herpes treatment will reduce your outbreak
recurrence, period and pain of your outbreak. Automatically, it will help you
to decrease the infection risk to spread the genital herpes into your sexual
partners. Usually, the type of medication that suggested is the antiviral one.
This type of medication is suggested to decrease the viral shedding or virus
ability to multiply itself.
Most common antiviral
medication that used are famciclovir (Famvir), valacyclovir (Valtrex) and
acyclovir (Zovirax). Of course, you will be administered by a doctor to take
this medication. It is important since they are the one that knowing well about
the medication dosage based on your needs and outbreak severity. First type of
treatment is initial treatment that given for about 19 days to see whether you
can manage the outbreak or not.
Next treatment phase is
the intermittent treatment. If you have
irregular outbreak then you will use the medication only when the outbreak
occur. Last treatment type is the regular treatment. This treatment will need
to be applied when you have more than 6 outbreaks in a year. This treatment is
also well known as suppressive treatment. During the treatment, you will need
to take the medication on daily basis. In fact, it can minimize your outbreak
about 80%.
