A question for anyone who knows anything about herpes (or other STDs)?!


Question: A question for anyone who knows anything about herpes (or other STDs).?
Let's say that one person in a relationship has herpes and the other doesn't. They end up getting married. I know that you need to practice safe sex if you don't want to catch it from your partner, but what if you want to have children.? Does that pretty much mean that the other person is going to end up with the virus too.?

This is 100% hypothetical...it's something I've been curious about for a long time. Thank you for your answers!Health Question & Answer


Answers:
Well there is always a very small chance that your partner could get herpes as well.
If the person who has herpes is on suppressive therapy then that would make it less likely for them to pass herpes onto their partner. It can also prevent out breaks from happening. They should continue with this treatment regularly in order to protect their partner from getting herpes.
The person with herpes should also never have sex if they have any signs of an out break. Herpes is more contagious while there are signs of an out break then when there isn't one. The rest of the time there is still a 2-5 percent risk of passing herpes on.
You should know that herpes takes skin to skin or genital to genital contact to pass on. Condoms don't do much to protect against herpes since they don't cover all of the areas that herpes can occur on. If they had some thing going on out side of where the condom protects then there is still a small chance that you could get herpes.
40 percent of North America has the genital type of herpes so that's like saying one in every ffour people you sleep with could have genital herpes and most people who have it don't know that they have herpes. Either because they have never been tested for herpes or because their symptoms are so mild that they can mistake it for some thing else.
Women with herpes can still have children and even healthy babies. They should be on some kind of suppressive therapy during their pregnancy. If there are any signs of an out break at delivery then the doctor should preform a c-section which would help prevent the child from getting herpes which can be deadly to new borns (it can cause blindness, brain damage and even death).
People with herpes can still lead healthy relativly normal lives but they do get rejected some times when it comes to dating because there is a big negative stigma out there against hepres. Basically it means that any one who has herpes has been doing some thing dirty, promiscuous or gross to get them when that is not always the case.
I contracted both oral and genital herpes from my boy friend. He didn't know that he had herpes and I didn't know any better what cold sores were. We never cheated on each other and have been committed, monogomus and living together for 3 years.Health Question & Answer

Firstly, there are ways to have children without having sex. Generally, people don't like that option, though, despite it being the safest option in your scenario.

To answer your question, there are no absolutes with any infectious disease. Repeat, no absolutes. An individual can have unprotected sex with someone who has herpes and come away uninfected. But it's like Russian roulette, if you know what I mean. There are certain medications that can reduce the risk of transmission by preventing outbreaks of herpes. Again, this is not 100% effective.

also, the gender of the infected individual plays a role. If the female is infected, the male is less likely to contract the infection than if the roles were reversed.

The short answer: Yes, if one person is infected and they have a spouse and they want to have kids, the infection will likely spread to the spouse and probably the kids as well.Health Question & Answer

I don't know the chances exactly, but I would imagine they are high. You might want to consider in-vitro or artificial insemination. also, if the mother is the one with Herpes you might have to consider cesarean section for delivery as Herpes is detrimental to the newborn.

Hope all goes well and talk to your gynecologist on your next visit.Health Question & Answer

there are drungs on the market to help the outbreaks. You can catch it even though the other person is not haveing a breakout.Theres no cure, and if you are not protected you will get it.Health Question & Answer

No it does not, I know someone who has Herpes.The other person has not contracted it and they even have children now. I would talk to my physician about your concern.Health Question & Answer



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