HSV-1 and More

[D1930]

Dear Doctor, I’ve gotten great inside info about HSV-1 on this site, but I have a few more questions I think nobody have asked directly.

1.If I have genital HSV-1, and a non-infected individual touches my penis can that person get HSV-1 through the hands?

2. There is any type of Gel like product that can block HSV-1 during intercourse?

3. How long does HSV-1 virus can survive outside the body?

4. Do you know of any last minute scientific discoveries about HVS-1 that may indicate a possible cure?

5. Can HSV-1 be a threat to pregnant women?

[gracefromHHP]

It's not even out of the petri dish. It'll be at least 10 years probably until it's widely available and that's if it's even successful in animal and human trials.  Heck even the herpavac vaccine trials - that's from a vaccine that's been being tested and refined for 15-20 years now. These things really do take time and frankly I don't mention anything that hasn't made it to at least phase 2 trials.  So far all the microbicides have totally failed too and they had made it to phase 3 trials I think.

grace

[slacker101]

The only thing going on is Duke University. They came up with a way to wake up all the herpes virus from latency and using Valtrex to kill it. It is in trials and if it works, will probably take about 50 years to come out!!! Not really 50 yrs but nothing is ever fast in the medicine world.

[gracefromHHP]

if you read our read before posting post, you'll see that we request thatyou just keep adding new questions to your original thread instead of making a new one each time. thank you for your future cooperation with this.  Also once again, this is not the doctor's forum, you need to pay to post there.

1 - they can get hsv1 on their hands but it's not likely to happen. Hsv1 genitally doesn't shed very often to be transmitted in general and the skin on the hands is normally too thick for the virus to easily penetrate. If a partner has bitten cuticles, open cuts on the hands or cracked, dry hands, they shouldn't be touching your genital area until they are healed. The normal bacteria in the genital area, isn't always so normal when it gets into open areas on the hands.

2-  not at this time

3-  hours but it's not an issue as far as just coming in contact with it. It takes heat and friction to transmit the virus - not just actually touching the virus.

4-  nothing that is currently in clinical trials and showing any measureable success

5 - it can be if hsv1 is contracted genitally during pregnancy - especially during the 3rd trimester.

grace