In fact, genital herpes during pregnancy will cause
various effects. Feel curious what does
genital herpes feel like? If you having genital herpes during pregnancy
then you will need to be careful since you may pass the virus to your baby. The
virus itself can be transferred during the delivery process. If you have this
type of herpes before pregnancy or during early period of pregnancy then the
risk of getting infected will be lower even less than 1%.
What pregnant women need to do is carefully
examine on any symptom before the giving birth period. If there are some sores
or outbreak then you better take the cesarean section. A different case will
happen if you get genital herpes in the late pregnancy period. In this case,
you may get 30% up to 50% of infecting the baby. It may happen since mother
immune system has not developed protective antibodies against the genital
herpes virus.
Even if you do not have genital herpes but still
need to be careful during the third trimester about sex. You may lower your
awareness and carefully action if you are sure that your partner is free. If
your partner gets cold sores or oral herpes then you better not allow your
partner to do oral sex. The best prevention action is get testes for genital
herpes. It will be even better if you can have your partner also get tested.
Commonly, doctor will suggest taking some antiviral
drugs or suppressive therapy in daily basis. However, pregnancy woman cannot
simply take this type of treatment without checking their condition or discuss
with the doctor. Be sure that you already know the risk and advantage of taking
medication type. When you already born the baby, you will need to protect them
from any touch from people that having cold sore.
