It’s important for everyone to have accurate herpes information in this day and age.  Way back before the sexual revolution changed all the rules in this country, people didn’t know much about sexually transmitted diseases.  However, because there was very little sexual activity going on outside of marriage (or at least a lot less than there is these days),  most people didn’t suffer from their lack of knowledge about venereal diseases.  Those days are long gone, and now STDs are something that pretty much everyone has to know about.  Unfortunately, there’s a lot of false herpes information out there.
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Herpes blisters are one of the first signs of an outbreak of this rapidly spreading STD.   But many people, when they first notice the blisters, don’t make the connection between the small bumps and the actual incident where they contracted the disease.  That’s because there is usually a lag of quite a few days, even up to a couple of weeks, between the actual infection and the appearance of the herpes blisters.  In addition to the blisters, the skin may have a reddish tint, and it may be slightly or extremely sensitive to touch.
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What is herpes type 1?  What does it do?  Does it cause genital herpes?  What’s the difference between it and the other types of herpes?  These are some of the most common questions people have about herpes type 1, and if you’re one of them, you’re not alone.  There is a lot of confusion abroad when it comes to the topic of herpes, and most people couldn’t tell you the difference between type 1 herpes and type 2, or which one generally causes cold sores and which one usually is responsible for genital herpes.  But we’ll answer all those questions in this article, and you’ll get the answers you need.
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Herpes and pregnancy can be a very dangerous combination, and every woman who is still of child bearing age needs to know about the problem and the risks involved.  I want to point out right up front that while the risk to a baby who contracts herpes through delivery to a mother experiencing and outbreak are very high, and can even be fatal, it is actually pretty rare.   This is not meant to be a scare article, but simply to present information that every potential mother needs to know about herpes and pregnancy.
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Oral herpes, commonly known as herpes in the mouth, is a caused by the herpes simplex virus, which million and million of people carry in their bodies, even if they don’t know it.  If you’ve ever had a cold sore, or had a friend or family member who suffered from cold sores, that was one form that herpes in the mouth can take.  Technically, visible cold sores aren’t actually inside the mouth in most cases, but somewhere just outside, like above the lip.  But it’s still considered to be oral herpes.  Not only are cold sores unattractive, they can also be quite painful.  And people who get them tend to get them over and over again.
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Do you know how to tell if you’re suffering from male genital herpes?  You really need to know for sure in order to stay as healthy as possible, and enjoy a long and happy love life.  Some men will freely admit to themselves that they don’t really know how to spot herpes, even if they wouldn’t say so publicly.  Don’t laugh – many men think they know all about herpes, but they have some really erroneous ideas about the symptoms.  Millions of men think that male genital herpes means oozing blisters or sores in their private areas.  Well, that’s often part of the story, but those certainly aren’t the first indications of the disease.
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Not a lot of people are aware of it, but eye herpes (also known as ocular herpes) is a common health condition that anyone can contract.  The vast majority of people have never heard of this malady, but it’s actually pretty common.  Most people, of course, have heard the word herpes before and they tend to think of it as a sexually transmitted disease that affects genital areas.  But that’s only one form of the many different herpes viruses that are out there that people need to know about.  Cold sores around the mouth are another ailment that can be caused by the various kinds of herpes, and ocular herpes is another one.
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Female herpes is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States.  Don’t get the wrong idea – man can get genital herpes, too.  Millions of them have the virus.  But the infection is about twice as common in women as it is in men.  Doctors and researchers don’t entirely understand the reason for this huge disparity, but they believe the main reason is that herpes, like many other STDs, is more easily transmitted from a man to a woman than from a woman to a man, due to our differing anatomical structures.  While the reasons for the huge numbers of cases of female herpes may be in dispute, the facts aren’t.  The Center for Disease Control has spent millions of dollars and several years compiling the statistics.  Every year they update their files and websites with the latest figures, which anyone can check for themselves.  There is some good news, however – the number of women with herpes seems to be decreasing lately.
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Everyone who is sexually active needs to be able to spot the first sign of herpes in themselves and in anyone they’re being intimate with, or planning on being intimate with.  You can save yourself a lot of unpleasantness and heartache down the road by keeping yourself free from herpes infection.  And if you’ve already got it, you can significantly reduce the severity and frequency of outbreaks by spotting it early, because rapid treatment during the first sign of herpes is the most effective.  Once it progresses, past the initial stage,  the treatments don’t work as well.
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Female genital herpes is a growing health problem for women in the United States and other parts of the world.  It was only a few short decades ago that most people had never heard of herpes, and didn’t have any idea what it was.  It was only in the late 1970s that word about this increasingly common STD began to get out, and it was well into the 1980s before the average person in America became familiar with the new term.  Since then the virus has multiplied exponentially and we’ve now reached a point where one in five Americans 13 years of age and older has the infection.
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You should never ignore the early signs of herpes, either your own, or those you may spot on a potential sexual partner.  Many people do, for a variety of reasons, but later on they deeply regret not paying more attention to what they shrugged off as nothing to worry about.  Herpes is most definitely not “nothing to worry about”.  It’s a serious sexually transmitted disease, and while it’s not fatal, and usually isn’t as debilitating as syphilis and other STD’s, the consequences are both unpleasant and long lasting.  Yes, it can be treated, and the severity of outbreaks can be reduced, but once you have herpes it will never go away completely.
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