Genital
herpes is not only
threat women. Men also possible to get this virus. Different with less
dangerous virus such as influenza or cough, it may causing chronic viral
infection with genital skin lesion. Even 1 of 6 male in the age of 14 up to 49
is infected with this HSV-2 virus. Unfortunately, less than 30% of those
patient that get proper diagnose and treatment by physician. The rest of
population still getting less aware of their possibility of getting infected
while keep doing unhealthy sexual relationship.
If you decide to pay
more attention to this disease existence that may threaten your health then
you better being aware of initial infection. In fact, most of genital herpes attack is caused by
HSV-2 virus. Any contact with the carrier of this virus may makes you attacked
by the disease. No need to have contact with active herpes lesion to get
infected, even mucosa, secretion or contacted with seems healthy skin is also
possible to put you in danger.
How about some people
that think condom is effective enough to do protection function? the answer is
no, condom cannot offering fully protection because it may not fully cover the
infected area. Let us continue about the initial infection, the disease
infection start from 2 up to 12 days after contacting the virus carrier. Most
of men even unaware that they are attacked by herpes since the symptom they
have is a mild one. They start to aware when the lesion start to come out.
Initially, cluster of
small sore or lesion around penis, thighs, scrotum, buttock, mouth and anal
area will appear. Bump turn into blister that fulfilled with fluid and creating
painful ulcers. Finally, it will become crust and scab that usually will be healed
in a week or so. Different with the previous one, lesion in the urethra line
may give you burning urination sensation. Any itchy, tingle, ache, cracked skin
will be your friends during the outbreak for about 2 up to 4 weeks.
Genital herpes in men
may also have recurrent outbreak. Usually, the outbreak is happen because of
several factors such as stress, fatigue, less immune level and UV light
exposure. The recurrent lesion may happen around 12 up to 24 hours as the
signal of reactivate HSV-2 virus. Luckily, this recurrent process likely to be
less painful that the initial one. In average, the virus may recurrent for 3
or 4 times per year. Not only have to deal with the lesion effect, male genital
herpes patient may infected with HIV virus as well.
So, what you should do
when you have suspected genital herpes symptom? Immediately contact with health
care provider is a great start to take. After that, taking the laboratory test
to make sure that what you have is genital herpes virus or not. The series of
test will be consist of physical test, blood test and culture of visible
lesions. Usually, you will have antiviral medication prescription to reduce the
symptom severe, cut off the outbreak period and manage with the genital herpes virus spreading
possibility.
