Eye infections

Have you ever woken up and found out that your eyelids have a gritty feeling accompanied by a sticky discharge? If the answer is yes, then you are likely to have been suffering from a bacterial eye infection. This is a health condition that causes the inflammation of the conjunctive (the mucous membranes that cover the white part of the eyes not forgetting the inside part of the eyelids.). Both your eyes or just one eye may appear to be red in color and the eyelids tending to stick together especially during the mornings while your eyelashes may contain some eye discharge. This infection is believed not to be very serious but due to its irritating nature, it may make you feel uncomfortable most of the time.

The bacterial eye infection is mainly caused by bacteria such as streptococci, hemophilias or the staphylococci bacteria. These bacteria are usually transmitted from one person who has the infection to another or sometimes the bacteria may come from the patient's own upper respiratory tract or skin where they are mostly situated.

Newborn babies often get this infection from the vaginal fluids of their mothers during birth. Due to their underdeveloped immune system, the babies usually get a severe form of this infection. Babies can also develop this eye infection from other forms of infection but doctors are known to use swabs to administer appropriate treatment to the baby. However, babies are commonly known to have poorly established tear passage systems. This usually makes them have watery sticky eyes. Therefore, you should be careful not to mistake this condition with the bacterial eye infection.

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.