The worrying thing about genital herpes
disease is that many people do not realize that they already transmit the virus
without conscious about it. It may happen since some patient may do not
recognize any symptom. It makes you get risk to infect and be contagious
without any sign to see. The reason of unrecognized symptom is because it may misdiagnose
as other type of ailment. That is why you better take some test. How to test for genital herpes? Here
are the ways:
PCR blood test
Doing PCR blood test will make you sure
whether you have genital herpes or not even though you do not have any
appearing symptom. This test will looking at the virus DNA that makes this kind
of test becomes one of the most effective method to find out herpes virus.
Cell culture
Another type of test that you can do is the
cell culture. During this test, the health provider will take your cell sample
from the sore. Later on, they will carefully examine it under the microscope to
check whether they can find the fact of herpes simplex virus existence or not.
You
will need to do another test after your first test since the false negative or
positive result may appear. The false negative result commonly show when you
are infected recently or the sore is begin to heal. PCR and cell culture
is a kind of effective test to make you sure since the HSV may stay in your
body for years before any outbreak can be noticed. Another risk of not taking
this test is never having any outbreak but being contagious to your sexual
partner.
Antibody test
Direct fluorescent antibody testing will
examine the HSV antibodies in your cell. It will be effective enough to find
out what type of herpes simplex virus that you have. The HSV 2 or genital
herpes will be likely having more outbreak than the HSV 1.
Do not only questioning how to test for genital herpes and
start to do the test for your own health!