Prevent Herpes by Better Hygiene and Other Precautions

The most important precaution to prevent herpes is to maintain good health and maintain high immunity levels by eating healthy, getting sound sleep, regular exercise and avoiding stress.

The above not only helps in preventing herpes but also prevents many other diseases which attack when your immunity is low.

If your partner or the person you come in close contact with, has herpes without any visible or felt symptoms even then this contagious virus can infect you. So in order to prevent herpes passing on from one to the other it is important to know that one of you has it. Once infection is recognized then you will have to follow certain discipline to ensure that it is not passed on to the other.

If you ask - Can herpes be cured? The answer can be yes and no. Therefore preventing herpes becomes more important. Avoid saliva sharing. That means no kissing to the affected person. It also means completely avoid sharing vessels like tea cups, glasses and other utensils with the infected person.

Keep distance from the herpes infected people in the social and work area.

Ensure safe sex or abstinence with the herpes infected partner. The genital herpes is generally caused by the HSV-2 virus which also can cause oral herpes.

Over exposure to sun can cause the outbreak of oral herpes. So if you don’t have the symptoms of herpes but you are a career of herpes virus then you must use sunscreen or lip protection to prevent oral herpes outbreak.

Since Herpes is curable, you should contact your doctor if you suspect you have contracted Herpes. Doctor would prescribe medication to prevent the future out break of the herpes. Herpes

Good hygiene and ensuring precautionary measure to avoid contracting it from the other herpes infected people is the key to prevent herpes.

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