Natural Herpes Treatment

People who have herpes but don’t know it can still be passing along the infection - or “shedding” it, Reuters news service reports. One in six adults in the U.S. has genital herpes, making screening for the disease very important. Genital herpes not only causes painful blisters but it can increase your risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.

“The people who are symptomatic are really the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Christine Johnston, of the University of Washington in Seattle. “We are not having any impact on the epidemic by ignoring it.”

In Johnson’s study, researchers followed 498 people who had antibodies in their blood against genital herpes. This shows they had all been infected, even though about one in six never had any symptoms. Although it is unclear how much virus is needed to infect someone else, Johnston said, the amount of virus shed in the absence of sores was the same for people even without symptoms. Doctors recommend frank conversations with your partner about herpes.

Starpharma is in beginning to consider clinical trials of its VivaGel product in women at risk of contracting genital herpes, the  Chief Executive Officer Jackie Fairley said in an interview in Singapore. The Melbourne-based company licensed its VivaGel- coated condoms in 2008 to SSL International Plc, maker of the world’s best-selling Durex brand.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that no cure exists for genital herpes, a condition that infects about one in six Americans and produces painful sores and increases HIV transmission. Other gels are being developed to prevent HIV infections, VivaGel is the only microbicide designed to stop herpes from spreading, Fairley said.

Today, if you have herpes, a natural product called Dynamiclear is very effective in controlling herpes outbreaks because it kills herpes viral particles when applied to  open herpes lesions. Fewer herpes particles remain and this means fewer and weaker outbreaks.

Almost one in six Americans is infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2).HSV-2, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States, is a serious and incurable infection that lasts a lifetime, causing recurrent and painful genital sores, states the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, says “Preventing STDs is a public health challenge that we, as a nation, cannot afford to ignore.”

The prevalence of HSV-2 has remained stable at around 17 percent of the U.S. population, the same as the last survey which was done from 1999 to 2004.

Even though there is no cure for the herpes simplex virus type 2 STD, it is possible to reduce the frequency and severity of the infection using nonprescription medication.  Here is a link to clinical trial studies on one of these very effective nonprescription viral antiseptics.