Natural Herpes Treatment

What is Genital Herpes?

Genital herpes can be defined as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the herpes simplex viruses type 1 (HSV-1) or type 2 (HSV-2). Most genital herpes is caused by HSV-2. Many individuals have no signs or symptoms of the infection. When signs do occur, they typically appear as one or more blisters on or near the genitals or rectum. The blisters break open, leaving tender sores that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur. Most often, another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first, but it almost always is less severe  than the first outbreak. And though the infection can stay in the body indefinitely, the number of outbreaks tends to decrease over the years.

The sexual revolution that took place in the 1960s turned herpes into an epidemic. Not many people  had heard of  genital herpes in those days. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 1 in 5 Americans over the age of 2, that’s approximately 45 million people, have genital herpes, a 30% increase since the 1970s. Millions more have other types of herpes such as cold sores. There are alternative treatments that can help you greatly control herpes naturally.

Once herpes is contracted, the virus has no known cure and virus particles remain in  the body. herpes lives silently in nerve endings deep within the base of the brain or spinal cord. Current medical therapy consists of  prescription drugs such as Zovirax (acyclovir), Valtrex and Famivr. These prescription drugs suppress replication of the virus to reduce outbreaks. These drugs aren’t always effective against HSV-1 (cold sores) and about 5% to 10% of people with HSV-2 (genital herpes) don’t respond well to them.

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New research may open the way to permanently kill the herpes virus buy activating the dormant virus then destroying it.

“Inactive virus is completely untouchable by any treatment we have. Unless you activate the virus, you can’t kill it,” said Bryan Cullen, who oversaw the research.

Jennifer Lin Umbach of Duke University in North Carolina said that for still unknown reasons, viruses infecting different neurons in the same body activate at different times, making it impossible to eradicate an infection.

Her team found that a gene called LAT controls microRNAs that turn off other genes in the virus.

A drug that would turn off the microRNAs could drive the virus out of hiding and allow all copies of the virus to be killed with acyclovir, she said.

“You would have one cold sore but you would get rid of it,” she said. Curing something more painful, such as shingles, might be a little trickier, she added.

The potential market is large. An estimated one in five Americans have genital herpes (HSV-2) according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 100 million have the HSV-1 virus that causes cold sores.

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