How to prevent genital herpes

Genital herpes is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease that poses a great threat to the patient's health. For ordinary people, they must keep themselves clean in their daily lives and avoid unclean sexual behavior. Try to avoid extramarital sex, take protective measures when having sex, improve your body's immunity in daily life, exercise more, and get vaccinated for prevention.

1. Overcoming psychological barriers

There is currently no specific prevention method for genital herpes. For example, recurrent genital herpes can have a great psychological impact on patients, and may even induce the risk of genital malignancy. The psychological factors of patients are mainly depression, fear and other disorders, which often become direct triggers for the recurrence of HSV. Based on treatment experience, experts say that as long as patients adhere to regular treatment, they can be cured.

2. Vaccination

Animal experiments have shown that vaccination with either killed HSV vaccine or live attenuated HSV vaccine has an immune effect. Since the virus is closely related to certain cancers, it is not used for routine prevention. Recently, purified herpes virus envelope glycoprotein has been used as a vaccine to avoid the carcinogenic risk of herpes virus DNA.

3. ACV also has a preventive effect.

Condoms may reduce transmission of the disease, especially during the period of asymptomatic shedding, but they do not prevent transmission when genital lesions are present.