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There is a joke about dermatologists, saying that their patients never die and never get completely cured. Herpes is definitely the most vivid evidence of the fact that every good joke contains a significant part of the truth.

Herpes brings into our life more discomfort than serious danger to the overall health condition. It can periodically disturb and annoy us with the itching blisters on face, decreasing our beauty’s rating or even make us avoid sexual relationships, when affecting the genitals.

But herpes, being caused by a virus, never leaves the body after it has penetrated in it and cannot be completely destroyed.

On the other hand, Devil is not as horrible as it is painted. Though herpes is very strong virus, affecting the millions of people worldwide, the majority of them do not even know that they are infected.

Maintaining the physical and psychological health, well-balanced food, avoiding nervous stresses and appropriate skin care are the key factors, ensuring not killing the virus, but keeping it asleep and unable to spoil our life.

Besides, modern pharmacology offers a line of well-reputed, safe and efficient medications to minimize the herpes’ influence on the humans’ life.

Information is organized into following categories:
Cold Sores ArticlesCold Sores Articles
Cold Sore is a very tricky disease: it does not do much harm to our health, it does not affect any vitally important organs (as heart or liver); nevertheless, it can spoil our mood for several days. Imagine, ...

Genital Herpes ArticlesGenital Herpes Articles
Genital Herpes. This may sound just as a name of some disease to those who are not acquainted with it. It sounds terrifying to lots of people suffering from this whip. Some treat genital herpes as a ...

Herpes TreatmentHerpes Treatment
By no means, knowledge is a power. It is absolutely necessary to know the symptoms, targets, risks, and consequences of a disease to be able to distinguish it from the other illnesses, to avoid its ...
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Herpes Treatment Quiz
Don’t lose your chance to check your knowledge of available herpes treatment options. You will find all the possible questions on medications, their action, and side effects in this quiz. Go ahead; it is easier than you think!

Herpes Quiz: General Facts
This quiz covers the general facts about herpes - a disease, familiar to millions of people. Test your knowledge of this issue to discover whether you know much enough to be able to fight this world-spread evil.

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Treatment of Herpes Zoster
Herpes zoster (shingles) is not usually considered to be a serious disease. Nevertheless, when it is not prevented in time and properly treated, herpes zoster may cause such severe complications as ...

Herpes Zoster Overview
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Cold Sores and Fever Blisters?
You should be lucky if you are one of those who are being the owner of the virus producing cold sores. Why lucky? You will probably be surprised to know that 80% of the adult population has this ...

Safety of Anti-herpes Medicines
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Herpes Recurrences
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Top Stories
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Products
Acyclovir AcyclovirAcyclovir is currently accepted as the drug of choice for the treatment and suppression of genital herpes. It is the generic equivalent of the leading anti-viral drug, Zovirax.

Aldara Aldara is FDA-approved immune-response modifier for treatment of external genital and perianal warts in adults. Aldara is a vanishing cream applied by the patient and it is available by prescription only.

Condylox Condylox is the first FDA approved gel that treats genital warts. It is also used to treat warts on the skin between the rectum and the genitals.

Denavir Denavir is the topical version of an acyclovir analog ant the first prescription cream approved to treat recurrent cold sores.

Famvir Famvir is the first and only oral antiviral approved to treat recurrent genital herpes in just a single day.

Valtrex ValtrexValtrex is the first anti-viral approved in the US herpes medication proven to reduce the number of outbreaks you get.
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