Female Symptoms of Herpes
So what do herpes look like on a woman? Herpes and signs of herpes on a woman are quite easy to identify if they occur. But in 60% of women that are affected, they will not feel any symptoms related to herpes.
They will just be transmitting it on to their sexual partners with skin contact.
Visual signs of female genital herpes start as a small, hardly recognizable rash in the vaginal area.First herpes symptoms are therefore mostly ignored by majority of women as they really look like there is a harmless pimple or acne starting to show on the skin, but it is in fact the notorious herpes virus. Female herpes is in medical terms referred to as congenital herpes or herpes genitalis. Though it mostly attacks female population it can pass to a man too!
Female herpes symptoms
The average incubation period for the virus to show its first symptoms takes up to 3 weeks, some women may feel the symptoms much earlier. The first alert that gives your doctor a firm ground for herpes diagnosis is growth of pimple or wart-like boils. Those are not confined just on the nearest proximity of the vagina. They can easily be infecting your buttocks, yeast, thighs and can be spread to the uterus as well. The lesions of the herpes virus are easily transmitted with scratching and skin contact to other parts of the body. If you develop visual signs of herpes infection, then you will most probably be experiencing stabbing hot pain on the touch of the area affected by the virus. Among common symptoms one can find burning sensations when urinating. Accompanying symptoms can be pain in the muscles, headache or even pain in the lower back area, depending really on the seriousness of the infection and the response of your body to the virus itself.
Treatment of female symptoms herpes
Herpes is one of most stubborn viruses one could imagine. Well beyond two thirds of people who are infected will have reoccurring outbreaks of the disease till the rest of their life. Usually the repeated occurring of the herpes is not as painful and uncomfortable as the first one, but it still represents a medical condition that is pretty contagious and unwelcomed for any women. Herpes on itself is easy to treat but impossible to remove from the body. There really is no treatment go get rid of female herpes for good. But using proper medications and changing couple of your eating habits can freeze the chance of developing herpes again, and significantly restraint the symptoms if it pops up again.
In any case it is advisable to take precautions in sense of doing everything possible to prevent the next outbreak of female symptoms herpes lesions. You should know that the very instance you feel like herpes is going to pop up again is the instance your skin and the entire body are on an extremely high level of contagiousness. The time before the next outbreak is the time majority of people get infected by you. So you should take care to prevent repeated outbreaks and protect yourself as well as people near you.