No, I'm not infected. I'm learning about STDs in Health class, and I don't like to ask questions about that. But is it possible to get herpes anywhere on the body?
2007-01-05 15:47:07 · 10 answers · asked by Liz P 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Yes it is. The most likely culprit would be herpes 1, which is not actually an STD, it is considered a communicable disease because it is spread without sexual contact. Herpes 2 virus, the one that is referred to when discussing the sexually transmittable variety can also infect the eye, though it is quite unlikely. It is also possible that chicken pox, which is actually in the herpes family, can resurface many years later in a case of shingles and have a resulting outbreak in the eye.
2007-01-05 16:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by Jennifer C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-02 12:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by Euna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-13 09:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is yes, but this is more complicated than that. To begin with the STD Herpes Virus is HSV-2, and it is not likley to infect a person's eye. HSV-1, the cold sore Herpes, (which about 80% of us are infected with) is much more likely to cause eye infections.
Herpes infects you intially on the skin or mucosa, and then it goes and hides away in the nervous system where it stays with you forever and on occasion causes a recurrent infection. Howver, the place where it causes the recurrent infection is not neccessarily the same place where it infected you in the first place.
HSV-1 for some unknown reason likes the nerves of the face, so even if you are initially infected in the groin, HSV-1 will migrate to the trigeminal nerve and reinfect the skin innervated by this nerve, which includes the face eyes and mouth.
HSV-2 (the STD) likes the nerves below the waste. So, it is possible for someone to get facial HSV-2 as an initial infection, but then the virus will stick around in the nerve ganglia below the waist and reinfect the skin inervated by those nerves, like the groin area or the buttocks.
It is probably possible to get HSV-2 in the eye, but HSV-1 is much more common as an eye infection.
2007-01-05 16:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by know_it_all 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is possible to get herpes anywhere on the body that the virus comes into contact with if you have an open sore or if it is a mucous membrane like the eye.
My brother has herpes in his eye, he got it when some jerk who had a cold sore kissed him on the eye when he was a baby.
2007-01-05 15:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by Erika S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-15 10:16:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-06-08 01:33:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get herpes in the eyes. Not around eye areas.
http://www.doctorgoodskin.com/ds/genitalherpes/
2007-01-05 22:52:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... the chicken pox is a form of the herpes virus and when my sister had them she has one on her eyelid. The doctor immediately sent her to an eye specialist who put her on medicine to aviod infection... it can cause all sorts of eye problems.
2007-01-05 17:09:09 · answer #9 · answered by t1g8h81 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF "HERPES RELATED VIRUSES"-COLD SORE ARE ONE FORM AND IT IS CALLED HERPES SIMPLEX 1--YES, YOU CAN GET THEM IN YOUR EYES, ON YOUR EYES, IN YOUR NOSE, ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND IT REALLY SUCKS. I HAVE HAD COLD SORE OUTBREAKS IN MY NOSE AND ON MY NOSE AND SOMETIMES, AN OUTBREAK IS SOOO BAD, IT MAY EVEN CAUSE A SECONDARY INFECTION IN MY EYES (THE SECONDARY INFECTION IN MY EYES, IT NOT, THANK GOD, HERPES) IF YOU GET THE HERPES VIRUS IN YOUR EYE, IT CAN CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE BLINDNESS. I TAKE PRESCRIPTION VALTREX (WHICH IS AN ANITVIRAL MED FOR GENITAL HERPES) THAT WORKS REALLY GOOD.
2007-01-05 16:03:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋