Genatal warts, genetal herpes (genital herpies), moluscum
Genatal warts is a virus infection from the human papillomavirus (HPV). Genetal (genetial) warts are not always caused is you have a HPV infection as some strains of HPV will not cause Genital (genitile) wharts.
Genatal (genitile) warts
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Genatal warts (genetial, genital wharts) infections
Genatal warts (sometimes seen as genetal wharts) are often noticed as small, tiny fleshcoloured lumps. The genital warts are found in either the genatal area, or in the anal area. Genital warts can also be found on a womans cervix, where - if left untreated - it poses a risk for the development of cervical cancer. Genatal wharts is a very contagious condition and especially since it can spread even without showing any symptoms at all, it is a very virulent disease. Gential wharts is one of the most common sexually transfered diseases (STD's).
By using a condom, you can protect yourself to some extent but it is not a guarantee against the transfer of gential warts as they can be located on areas outside of the condom coverage. The HPV strains most often responsible for generating genitile warts are the types 6 or 11, which by some luck are the two types that less frequently are known to also cause cervical cancer.
It is possible to treat (remove, cure) genetial warts with either laser or chryotherapy and there are also several chemical procedures to remove genetal warts. By removing gential wharts, you don't remove the virus though, that is important to realize. The virus will still be there and it may very likely continue to cause outbreaks in the future and you may well have to go through genital warts removal again in the future.
Genital herpies - genitle (genitile) herpes (herpees)
If you get infected by genitile herpes, there may be symptoms, but then again there may be not - it is well known that many (most actually) cases of HSV-2 infections will show no symptoms at all. After the genetial infection, there is a period of latency followed by the recurrance. During outbreaks (whether initial or recurrances) of genetial herpes, the typical symptoms of the genital herpies are that blisters will begin to develop, then burst open and eventually scab over, all during a period of 1-2 weeks.
In some of the cases where a HSV-2 genitle herpes infection is present, it is possible that there is a lengthy symptom-free period first, before the initial outbreak and when this happens, it is often mild because the immune system will have had time to create antibodies against the genitle herpes infection. This sort of late primary infections sometimes also seem to heal faster, give less symptoms and also be less contagious.
A HSV-1 primary infection can often be very intense while the recurring outbreaks may come in less frequently and be of minor intensity compared to that of the HSV-2 genitile herpes outbreak. Since a high proportion of the female infected with the infection have the ability to transmit the genitle herpies during the period of the first 90 days after the first outbreak, even when the blisters have healed and disappeared - it is important to test women patients showing signs of vaginal discharges. Once you are out of the 90-day window, the virus is significantly less virulent and contagious.
Moluscum (molluscium) contagiosum
Moluscum contagiosum (molluscium contagiousum) is a virus infection of the skin, first appearing as minor spots, frequently pink-ish in colour shaped as pearls. These spots can occur in any agegroup but the molluscium contagiosum is most common in children. It is not a very serious condition and in most normal cases of the moluscum, it heals in a couple of months, although it is possible in other cases that the molluscum stays for longer.
The moluscum comes from a virus infection of the pox virus. This infection can transfer via direct contact, whether sexual or not, and also by secondary contact such as a via towels etc. Moluscum contagiosum symptoms usually appear within 10 days to 50 days from the initial molluscium contagiosum infection.
Treatment of genatal herpies virus infections
At present, there is no functional cure that works for genitle herpes, but by treating the symptoms of the genatal herpes with anti viral drugs, you can also prevent, or postpone, the future outbreaks of the condition. With anti viral medication, you can also to some extent avoid and minimize the risk of transmitting the genetal herpies to your partner in sex.
Valtrex - Valacyclovir
This is a prescription only drug, to b take two times per day in the first week. If used for prevention, it is taken only once a day.Zovirax - Aciclovir
This is also on prescription, taken as much as five times in a day, for the first fiveday period. For prevention use, it is only twice a day.
Famvir - Famciclovir
A prescription drug, taken twice a day for 5 days.
The phases of gential herpes (stages of herpies)
The first symptoms come from the initial outbreak following the original infecition by the virus. This can happen within only a couple of days, up to several weeks after you first contracted the infection from someone else. Following the initial outbreak a dormant period comes in (in normal cases) that in the beginning of the infection can be a period of one or several months. Eventually there will be the recurrent genitile herpies outbreaks that are often less severe than the initial outbreak.
Symptoms (signs) of genitile herpes
Symptoms of genitial herpiees are often that mini blisters start to occur where the infection has it base, which is often in the genital region. These blisters are often combined with a lot of gential pain, but for a short period of a week, maybe two. After the painful period, the blisters go away without leaving any marks.
While the symptoms are there, you are able to transmit the infection and you should not have sex, not even using a condom. After the disappearal of the symptoms, you can no longer transmit the herpes.
Treating genital herpies
No known current cure exist to remove the herpes totally but there are some drugs to treat the symtpoms of genatal herpies and to make life easier. The initial infection can not be removed and this means that the virus will still be there (in many places in your body) which then may start to activate again. These recurrences can often be with shorter intervals during the first year after your infection and then it starts to appear more seldom.
Removing genatal herpes
Genatal herpies is possible to remove using cryotherapy, which is when the doctor uses a method of freezing for the removal. Laser therapy as a method has also become available recently. When genital herpies are removed, it is still possible that the condition recurs and this is actually also quite likely since the virus is still present and can start to be active again at any time later. Other removal methods include the LEEP (Loop Elecrosurgical Excicion procedure) and there a few chemical options are as well for genital herpes removal. Genatal (genital) warts and moluscum contagiosum (contagiousum) removal methods are similar.