Saturday, November 21, 2009

Genital herpes symptoms in men

Male genital herpes is one of the most common forms of std. sexually active men are more prone to contracting genital herpes as infected fluids are easily transmitted from one individual to another.

Symptoms :
Once the male genital herpes has reached a serious level, you would begin to see sores around your penis on either the tip or the shaft. At other times, you would notice sores or blisters located on other areas of the body such as buttocks, thighs, anus, urethra, scrotum etc. The sores start out as reddened blisters, which soon begin to swell with fluid, burst and give rise to sores. These cold sores and genital herpes itches are very painful and are the biggest contributor to genital herpes pain in men.

Contact spreading virus
Almost any kind of contact, where fluids can be exchanged can cause genital herpes infection to spread. Genital herpes men can easily spread when there are instances of kissing, oral sex such as fellatio, analingus, cunnilingus etc. or when there is anal sex or vaginal sex between partners.
In case of vaginal sex, if it is a case of male genital herpes, the woman can easily be contracting genital herpes because she is more prone to getting the genital herpes infection. Even a simple act of kissing can involve spread of saliva, which could contain the virus, especially if there are open sores inside the mouth.