Female Care

Genital herpes, also called herpes, is a viral infection caused by herpes simplex viruses (HSV).

Two types of viruses are associated with genital herpes: HSV-1 and HSV-2.

It is found that one out of every five in the United States is infected with genital herpes.

More than 45 million Americans are affected with genital herpes.

Currently, you have no genital herpes treatment available to cure the disease.

However, home remedies can heal the herpes symptoms and improves your immune system to prevent the re-emergence of the disease.

On the other hand, there are antiviral medications to treat the disease. Zovirax (acyclovir), Famvir (famciclovir) and Valtrex (valacyclovir).

Therefore, the aim of genital herpes treatment is to reduce the symptoms. Moreover, it has no side effects.

Genital herpes is one of the most common sexual transmitted diseases (STD) that can spread from person-to-person through direct contact in the infected region, including unprotected sexual activity, kissing or skin-to-skin contact.

The other sexual transmitted diseases are gonorrhea [Gonorrhea Symptoms], chlamydia [Chlamydia Symptoms], HIV/AIDS, pelvic inflammatory disease and many more.
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Here’s another reason not to smoke, if you’re a woman: PMS.

Women 27 to 44 years old who smoke are twice as likely to develop premenstrual syndrome over the next two to four years, especially hormonally-related symptoms like backaches, bloating, breast tenderness, and acne, Dr. Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and her colleagues found.

“Our findings lend further support to the idea that smoking increases the risk of moderate to severe PMS, and provides another reason for women, especially adolescents and young women, not to smoke,” Bertone-Johnson told.

Up to 20% of women have PMS severe enough to affect their relationships and interfere with their normal activities, Bertone-Johnson and her team note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Smoking has been shown to affect levels of several different hormones, and the handful of studies looking into PMS and smoking have suggested that women with the syndrome are more likely to be smokers, the researchers add.

To investigate the relationship further, they analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, which has been following 116,678 US registered nurses since 1989.
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