What should be noted in the diet and health care for genital herpes? Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease caused by HSV virus infection. Most patients with initial genital herpes infection have no clinical symptoms, called latent infection, about 10% to 20% of those infected show symptoms. Generally, after the initial infection heals, the herpes virus lurks in the spinal ganglion, and most turn into a latent infection state. Recurrent genital herpes occurs 1-4 months after the primary infection, nearly 60% of patients relapse within one year after the first HSV-2 infection, which can recur 4-6 times in the first year, and the number of recurrences decreases thereafter. The systemic symptoms of recurrent patients are milder than the primary infection, and the duration of each episode is shorter, with skin lesions usually subsiding in about 10 days. Recurrences usually occur in the same place, but the number of blisters, duration, and self-reported symptoms are milder than the primary infection, and systemic symptoms are rare, because HSV-2 lurks in the spinal ganglion. There is currently no specific medicine for the virus. Therefore, when the body's resistance declines, the virus will replicate and multiply in the ganglion, and then reach the original skin lesion site along the nerve bundle to cause the disease again. Generally, if there is no recurrence for more than six months after treatment, the possibility of recurrence is small, unless you are reinfected.
Nursing for genital herpes:
First, prevent its infection, especially in summer, when the temperature is high, sweating is more, and local scratching, it is easy to appear local infection, daily use of clean water to clean the genital area is necessary. When local infection appears, use disinfectant to clean the local area in time, commonly use 3% boric acid water 200mL to wash the affected area, or grind one Berberine tablet into powder and add it to 200mL of boiling water, wash the affected area after cooling. Secondly, avoid local scratching, do not use too irritating drugs, after illness, it is necessary to pay attention to prevent cold, cold, tiredness, to reduce recurrence, during treatment, intercourse is prohibited.
Recurrence is related to the following factors:
Drinking alcohol, smoking, fatigue, catching cold, excessive sexual intercourse, spicy and stimulating foods, eating too much seafood, long foreskin, sexual partners not treated at the same time, other factors that lead to low immunity, etc. Therefore, comprehensive prevention and treatment are needed. Usually do more exercise, enhance physical fitness, improve your own immunity.
Home remedies for genital herpes
① An appropriate amount of Scutellaria barbata, mash and apply to the affected area, twice a day.
② An appropriate amount of purslane, mash into a paste, apply to the affected area, change the medicine once a day.
③ A few pieces of fresh fig leaves, wash and mash, add an appropriate amount of vinegar, mix into a thin paste, apply to the affected area, change when dry.
④ 30 grams of raw rhubarb, Coptis chinensis, and Phellodendron amurense, 15 grams each of Frankincense and Myrrh, grind into fine powder, when using, mix with sesame oil into a paste, apply to the sore surface, once a day.
