Showing posts with label herpes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herpes. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Relationship Between HPV and Herpes


Are Genital Herpes the reason why HPV is cause? Is HPV an advanced form of genital herpes? What is the relation between Herpes and HPV? I have seen many people asking such a question. A simple explanation is that both are completely different diseases. Both diseases are sexually transmitted but no other similarities exist. Some people get confused with the tow diseases due to their nature of growth and transmission.

Genital Herpes are caused by the Herpes virus. HPV is given to a group of viruses that are more than 100 in number. Human Papilloma virus is the full name for HPV. Some types of these viruses cause only ordinary warts. Some can cause Cervical cancer and genital warts symptoms. HPV is not a disease by itself.

The only common factor or similarity between these two diseases, both are transmitted sexually and are incurable. Blisters are caused in Genital Herpes whereas HPV causes genital warts near the genitals.

Another resembling factor is that people who show no symptoms may transmit both. People who get affected like these are called silent carriers. They can contaminate their partners with the diseases. People may not be aware of the infection in themselves sometimes.

People may misdiagnose a blister caused by Genital Herpes as a boil or a pimple. Anyways the symptom vanishes after a while. In the case of HPV, the symptoms do not disappear. We have to remove them instead.

I hope that the above note will clear whatever confusion any of you may be having about HPV and Genital Herpes. To repeat, both are as different as cheese and chalk.
The confusion between HPV and Genital Herpes may be cleared from the above note. To repeat, they are as different as chalk and cheese.

This article is given only for informative purposes. It does not intend to be a substitute for any kind of professional medical advice. For medical concerns please consult your doctor. Only follow the tips in the article once you have consulted a doctor. For any damage or outcome resulting due to the information received from this article, the author does not bear any liability.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

You’re Life, Your Health. What you don’t know can hurt you

There’s been a recent change the last five years or so, People are taking control of there health. For years people have been munching down on fattening cheese burgers and greasy fry’s without thinking twice about it, children were becoming more obese, and no body cared about easily prevented cancers.

Since this change in our worlds new found healthy lifestyle, over-all health seems to be going in the right direction. People are eating right, exercising often, and thinking before they do things that may interrupt there perfectly healthy life. Unfortunately people are very misinformed. Everyone knows about saturated fats, and that smoking will kill you in the long run, because this is what we have all been told over and over again. Oddly enough the people in charge of informing the public don’t always spread all of the information as mainstream as they should.

Over the last thirty years more people have been coming in contact with diseases that they once thought would never be something to interrupt there lives. Only the lower class could catch them, or the street walkers of NYC, was what you would hear. The times have changed. If you have any kind of an intimate relationship chances are you will catch an STD. Over a quarter of the population are infected with one of the many Sexually Transmitted Diseases running rampant around the world.

Everyone has heard of HIV and AIDS and think, it will never happen to me. They may be correct about that, but what about the high risk diseases out there with no symptoms that thousands of people are carrying like HPV, Chlamydia, or Herpes? The statistics are mind boggling with the combination of the three infecting one in three people in the US alone. STD’s are not just for the poor and minorities anymore.

With these staggering figures how come we don’t see media campaigns like you do with other health issues? You certainly see big drug companies taking advantage of the huge number of people living with these incurable diseases. There commercials are all over T.V. and radio trying to get the word out about there treatments and cervices. But it seems that the Government isn’t spending the money that they should to help make people aware of the severity of this rising epidemic.

In the end it seems that they have left it up to us to spread the knowledge of just how serious this has become. Now that it’s really hit home to almost everyone in the world hopefully talking about these dangerous diseases will become more mainstream and less controversial.


About the author:
Joel Anderson is the head organizer of
Yourstdhelp.com. An organization dedicated to spreading the word about STD's 

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Finding An Effective Genital Warts Cure

If you’re looking for a genital warts cure you will be in luck. If you have a genital HPV infection instead and you’re looking for an HPV cure you might be in for some disappointment as there is no HPV cure as such. There are treatments, and these days there is even a vaccine accessible, but there are still no cures.

There are plenty of genital warts cure methods about, you just have to look. For the the greatest part though you won’t have to look very far as there are a choice number of genital warts cure methods accessible in the medicinal field.

Some of the widely used options for genital warts cure include the use of medications directly on the warts, as well as electrocautery or diathermy, and laser surgery. These cures encompass such things as topical creams, solutions, and amongst other things surgical procedures. You will be hard pressed to find an over the counter genital warts cure as most of the ones already on the market for the removal of warts aren't suitable in the case of genital warts. These will all, and without exception, be too strong to employ on the sensitive genital area. And if they are used there is a very good chance that you will feel greater discomfort than what you started out with.

Most of the medicinal creams and solutions which can be used to get rid of genital warts are prescription medications and will, in some cases, have to be applied to the affected area by trained medical personnel.

The type of treatment method used for any genital warts cure mainly depends upon the extent of the growth of the warts. All these treatment types will ensure a complete genital warts cure, but recurrence is often unavoidable as the virus still exists in the body even after the warts have been completely removed. Some of the other medications widely used for genital warts cure include 5% fluorouracil cream and trichloroacetic acid (TCA).

Other genital warts cure methods which you can utilize involve the employment of surgical methods like excision. In this type of genital warts cure the warts are removed by performing a minor surgery on the affected area. Another such genital warts cure is called LEEP which stands for Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure which involves using an instrument with one end in the shape of a loop. The loop is passed beneath the wart and cuts it out of the surrounding skin. After this the doctor uses something rather like a ball electrode to cauterize the skin.

Cryotherapy is a different genital warts cure which many individuals use and involves applying either liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide on the affected area. This is applied for a few seconds only, just long enough to freeze the warts, then the warts will later be removed.

The above mentioned cryosurgery is also one of the few methods where scarring is not a problem. In other surgical based genital warts cure methods scarring and often disfigurement of the affected area is expected, but this isn't so with the cryotherapy method of genital warts cure.

Research is on to find newer vaccines that will enable a complete genital warts cure with minimal discomfort. You may not be able to cure the HPV virus itself but you can take care of unsightly and potentially cancer forming genital HPV wart cells. As you can see you have several options open to you to find a genital warts cure which will suit you.

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