Oral Herpes

Disease Condition of Oral Herpes
- Introduction
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Homeopathic Treatment

Introduction

Introduction of Oral Herpes Oral Herpes is predominantly caused by HSV 1 though in some cases it can also be caused by HSV 2. Oral herpes is the most common herpes simplex virus infection amongst the masses throughout the world and is a self-limiting condition. It can occur at any age but mainly affects infants and children (between 10 months and 5 years). Most often, the infection is mild or sub clinical.

Symptoms

Symptoms of Oral Herpes The symptoms may be gradual in onset or may start suddenly.
- Fever, which may be high (102 -104 degrees F) and subsides after 3-5 days
- Bodyache and headache
- Loss of appetite with weight loss
- Listlessness
- Irritability and crankiness in children Symptoms of the disease:
- Lesions appear as raised erythematous patches that turn into papules. These papules get filled with fluid to form vesicles
- Beginning of blister formation or vesicles in clusters on the lips and on the inside of the mouth called as cold sores or gingivostomatitis.
- Vesicles occur in white patches. They break open, coalesce and form painful ulcers with a yellowish coating. Eventually there is scab formation over the ulcers
- Pain, burning and tingling at the site
- Skin around the mouth is also affected due to infected saliva
- In adults, at times, there are vesicles in the interior of the nose, pinna of the ear, eyebrows

Homeopathic Treatment

Homeopathic Treatment for Oral Herpes Homeopathy does not consider Herpes Simplex as a local affection of the skin but as something that has deeper roots within the system of the patient. Hence Herpes treatment is not simply symptomatic; rather it is based on a detailed case study and undertakes to treat the disease from the root cause. Based on the study of all these factors, a single Homeopathic remedy is selected which covers all the important features and helps to relieve the disease in that patient. Homeopathic treatment for Herpes not only helps in alleviating the lesions, the pain and the discomfort associated with Herpes Simplex but it also helps in preventing future outbreaks of the same. An important aspect to be noted is that the medicines of Homeopathy for Herpes do not have any suppressive effects and they are without any side-effects whatsoever.