Causes and Symptoms of Herpes
Causes and Symptoms of Herpes
What is herpes, what is it dangerous and what are the causes of this disease and its symptoms.
Herpes are small watery vesicles,which most often appear in the mouth area, but can be localized in many other places. Most often these rashes cause severe itching and painful sensations. In fact, herpes simplex virus is the most common viral disease in the world, as about 90% of the people of this planet are carriers of this virus, but only 5% suffer from symptoms of herpes.
The herpes virus is dangerous because in the period of acuteits course, the immunity of the carrier of the virus is greatly weakened. Thus, a person becomes more vulnerable to all kinds of infections and relapsing diseases. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to completely cure herpes, so the patient has to constantly maintain immunity and protect the body against recurring outbreaks of herpes simplex virus.
Herpes is a virus that is transmitted whendirect contact with its carriers. Naturally, genital herpes is transmitted sexually. You can also get herpes through saliva during a normal kiss. And even when you come into contact with any things of everyday life or food with which a person has been in contact with the acute phase of herpes, you can easily get infected with this virus.
Herpes simplex virus can affect anyskin area, mucous membranes of the genital organs, face and eyes. In case of eye injury, we are talking about conjunctivitis or keratitis. The affected nervous system with herpes simplex virus can cause encephalitis and meningitis.
As for the symptomatology, the originalinfection with herpes can be confused with the usual flu, since the symptoms are more typical for colds. But repeated infection already causes such symptoms as the appearance of pale pink bubbles with fluid, which often itch and cause pain in the area of the rash, and then there appear crusts.