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Is herpes transferable to your skin?
So I was diagnosed with h2 five years ago. Ever since I’ve had a blister cluster bubble up on different parts of my body, my arms, and it’s leaving scars.
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It would be very unusual.
The next time you get this, go to an urgent care, your doctor, whoever can see you within 24-48 hrs, and get it cultured, preferably a PCR swab. That's the only way to know for sure what it is.
Once you develop antibodies for herpes, it's really uncommon to spread it to other parts of your body. Antibodies develop within 12 weeks of infection, often much sooner. 70% develop them by 6 weeks.
There is something called herpes gladitorium, but it only happens in wrestlers. This happens when a wrestler has hsv, usually type 1 orally, has a cold sore, and the virus gets on the mat. When he and other wrestlers then rub their skin on the mats, with the chafing and all, it can penetrate the skin that is normally too thick for the virus to enter.
You could have staph/MRSA, eczema, an allergic reaction to something, or a host of other things, and should definitely see a doctor ASAP the next time you get one.
Let us know what happens.
The next time you get this, go to an urgent care, your doctor, whoever can see you within 24-48 hrs, and get it cultured, preferably a PCR swab. That's the only way to know for sure what it is.
Once you develop antibodies for herpes, it's really uncommon to spread it to other parts of your body. Antibodies develop within 12 weeks of infection, often much sooner. 70% develop them by 6 weeks.
There is something called herpes gladitorium, but it only happens in wrestlers. This happens when a wrestler has hsv, usually type 1 orally, has a cold sore, and the virus gets on the mat. When he and other wrestlers then rub their skin on the mats, with the chafing and all, it can penetrate the skin that is normally too thick for the virus to enter.
You could have staph/MRSA, eczema, an allergic reaction to something, or a host of other things, and should definitely see a doctor ASAP the next time you get one.
Let us know what happens.
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How would the virus live on the mat long enough to infect someone?
I always assumed wrestlers got it from an oral outbreak that came in direct contact with chafing or cut skin, or simply someone else who has it on their body to the chafing or cut skin.?
I always assumed wrestlers got it from an oral outbreak that came in direct contact with chafing or cut skin, or simply someone else who has it on their body to the chafing or cut skin.?
It would be an immediate thing, during the match.
I'm not a wrestler, never have been. I don't know if lips come into contact with arms and backs and such. Does that happen?
It could happen if someone has it on their body and has an outbreak, for sure. This is an article about an outbreak at a wrestling camp. Some wrestlers had skin lesions and kept wrestling, not knowing what they had was hsv1 - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199109263251302
Definitely, that would cause transmission with the chafing and rough contact of skin.
I'm not a wrestler, never have been. I don't know if lips come into contact with arms and backs and such. Does that happen?
It could happen if someone has it on their body and has an outbreak, for sure. This is an article about an outbreak at a wrestling camp. Some wrestlers had skin lesions and kept wrestling, not knowing what they had was hsv1 - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199109263251302
Definitely, that would cause transmission with the chafing and rough contact of skin.
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