Guest guest Posted June 14, 2002 Report Share Posted June 14, 2002 One thing to understand is that if the whole house hold has had herpes then you no longer need to take precautions. After the initial infection, each individual's outbreaks are totally unrelated to anyone else's (in other words everyone is on their own schedule of outbreaks according to their individual stress levels and immune system). The only time you would need to be careful would be in sharing stuff with outsiders who may not have the virus. Your immediate family members can no longer infect each other. Each one of you carries that virus in your body in a dormant state and it will travel down a nerve pathway to cause an out break when it darn well pleases and when you are not in a condition to fight it off. A normal, reasonably healthy individual can't even re-infect himself easily -- in other words you could have an out break on your lip and touch it and then scratch your eye and you won't cause herpes in your eye because your body will have already responded to that lip herpes outbreak by revving up it's antibodies and super saturating your system. (...now a severely immuno-depressed individual might have more risk). An excellent reference is " The Truth About Herpes " by L Sacks MD - I highly recommend it - it really helped me to understand both types of herpes better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 -- I have often wondered that myself! Also, how does a doc decide which SSRI to use? Is it trial and error? Scientific?! Looking forward to the answer!! - Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® Herpes VIrus My son tanked after his chicken pox vaccine. How does Dr Goldberg decide which herpes anti viral to use? Does he just keep switching from one to another. We have tried valtrex and my son and he broke out in rashes and coldsores. His behavior became terrible ( he was attacking us ). We stayed on it for about 4 months but had to finally quit. He has been on Imunovir for 6 months now with some minor gains. I am thinking of adding back in the valtrex but was wondering if I should try acyclovir or famvir instead. Any help is greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2010 Report Share Posted August 15, 2010 Hi guys,  I wanted to ask you which tests to do to start the treatment to get a comprehensive look of what's happening within my son's body? When he was around 19 months he got eczema herpeticum kinda nasty stuff, after he got better he started having outbreaks on his face and lips. I know now for sure that he has herpes virus in him, but can he have something else too? The outbreak on his face wasn't like cold sores, more like pimpals crowded in one place. We used Mupirocin 2% oinment and it helped.  Dovile From: Sloan <Sloan_smith@...> Subject: Re: Herpes VIrus Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 10:15 AM  yes, but there a couple herpes related virus Dr. G watches: HHV6, EBV, HHV1 & 2, and CMV > > > > My son tanked after his chicken pox vaccine. How does Dr Goldberg decide which herpes anti viral to use? Does he just keep switching from one to another. > > > > > > We have tried valtrex and my son and he broke out in rashes and coldsores. His behavior became terrible ( he was attacking us ). We stayed on it for about 4 months but had to finally quit. He has been on Imunovir for 6 months now with some minor gains. I am thinking of adding back in the valtrex but was wondering if I should try acyclovir or famvir instead. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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