What harm will male genital herpes bring? What are the treatment methods for genital herpes

Genital herpes, as a relatively frequent sexually transmitted disease, can be infected by both men and women.

What is the harm of male genital herpes?

1. Heavy psychological burden. The occurrence and recurrence of genital herpes will lead to the patients' heavy mental burden, psychological disorders, fear of cancer, infection of sexual partners, avoidance of sexual life of sexual partners, reluctance to communicate with the opposite sex, dysfunction, impact on family peace and depression.

2. Male infertility. Genital herpes is a huge hazard. Genital herpes causes other diseases of the urinary system, which may be an unimportant factor causing men.

3. Mixed infection. Genital herpes is often mixed with gonorrhea, non-gonococcal urethritis, syphilis, condyloma acuminatum and other sexually transmitted diseases, so attention should be paid in diagnosis and treatment.

4. Causes serious complications. Genital herpes can cause a series of complications such as disseminated herpes, herpetic meningitis, prostatitis, and spinal radiculopathy.

5. Increase the risk of suffering from AIDS. In AIDS epidemic areas, genital herpes also provides access and convenient conditions for HIV to enter the human body, increasing the risk of suffering from AIDS.

Can genital herpes be completely cured

Whether genital herpes can be completely cured depends on personal conditions. Some patients have a poor prognosis. The patients who are completely cured without repeated attacks have a poor prognosis. Repeated attacks must continue to be treated.

How to treat genital herpes? General treatment of genital herpes:

Antiviral treatment is mainly used. The main purpose of treatment is to relieve symptoms, relieve pain, shorten the course of disease and prevent secondary infection. The current treatment method has not achieved the effect of eliminating the virus and recurrence completely. At the time of initial genital herpes, the course of treatment is 7 to 10 days, and the course of treatment of recurrent genital herpes is 5 days. Patients with frequent recurrence need to take a course of treatment at a lower dose for a long time.

(1) It is mainly to keep the local clean and dry. It can be washed with isotonic physiological saline every day, and those who suffer from pain can take oral analgesics to give spiritual comfort.

(2) For those complicated with bacterial infection, antibiotic ointment can be applied externally.

(3) For patients with obvious local pain, 5% lidocaine hydrochloride ointment or oral analgesic can be used externally.

(4) Psychological support, explaining the nature of the disease, the cause of recurrence, and how to treat and deal with it, so as to enhance the confidence in fighting against the disease.