What Treatments are available for Herpes?

Initial treatment

If you experience symptoms such as little fluid-filled sores when you're first diagnosed with genital herpes, your doctor will usually give you a brief course (7 to 10 days) of antiviral therapy to relieve the sores or prevent them from getting worse. If your sores don't heal in that time your doctor may keep you on the antiviral drugs for longer.

After your first treatment, you should work with your doctor to come up with the best way to take antiviral therapies. This will take time, perhaps a few months, to work out what the frequency of your outbreaks are. There are three options:

Intermittent treatment

This is when your doctor will prescribe an antiviral drug such as acyclovir for you to keep on hand in case you have another flare-up; this is called intermittent therapy. You can take the pills for two to five days as soon as you notice sores or when you feel an outbreak coming on. Sores will heal and disappear on their own, but taking the drugs can make the symptoms less severe and make them go away faster.

Suppressive treatment

If you have outbreaks often, you may want to consider taking an antiviral drug every day. Doctors call this suppressive therapy. For someone who has more than six outbreaks a year, suppressive therapy can reduce the number of outbreaks by 70% to 80%. Many people who take the antiviral drugs daily have no outbreaks at all. The Suppressive treatment can however be a costly treatment with doctors prescriptions and the high costs of antiviral medications such as acyclovir, not to mention researched side effects conducted on long term use of these antiviral drugs showing decreased kidney function.

Common examples of these antiviral drugs are:

·         Acyclovir (Zovirax^®)

·         Famciclovir (Famvir^®)

·         Valacyclovir (Valtrex^®).

Natural Suppressive treatment

It is common for people using the Suppressive treatment method, to turn to natural antiviral supplements which are just as effective if not more effective than acyclovir, and much cheaper in the long run. Two powerful 100% natural supplements used for this are Gigartina 4, which is a natural supplement that boosts the body’s immune response to viruses, and Blazei, which is a medicinal mushroom that has very strong immunomodulatory and antiviral agents. They can be taken separately or together. Taking these two supplements together has produced astonishing documented results in drastically reducing herpes outbreaks, as well as considerably enhancing the immune system's regulatory response.

Doctors will advise the use of natural suppressive therapy not based on a set number a outbreaks per year, but instead focus on the more important factor of how often the outbreaks happen, and if they are severe enough to interfere with your life.

Taking daily natural suppressive therapies may also reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to a sex partner. Natural antiviral supplements also reduce viral shedding, when the virus makes new copies of itself on the skin's surface.

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Research has been conducted on Gigartina 4 in treating the Herpes Simplex Virus revealing that it stimulates an immune response that fights the virus and keeps it at bay.