How does herpes affect the process of getting pregnant?
My fiance and I have decided that we may want to have children in the future. He has been diagnosed with genital herpes but I have avoided contracting the disease. What are the options for me to get pregnant without contracting herpes?
It does NOT affect your abilities when trying to get pregnant. Herpes doesn’t mess around with the fertility, hormones, sperm or inside of the penis it’s a contagious skin infection. If you don’t have herpes he will have to be very careful not to ever have sex when he thinks he is getting or is has an out break in progress.
He should be taking antivirals, natural (ie Lysine) or medical (ie Valtrex) regularly. This will help to reduce his chances of him passing herpes to you, and he should get to know his symptoms so you can abstain from having sex.
If your hormone, fertility and uterus is normal and healthy then you may want to consider telling him to have his sperm levels checked out.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
HAVE SEX WHEN HE D0SE N0T HAVE AN 0UTBREAK
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November 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
valtex or artifical insemation or finding some one who does not have herpes
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November 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
It does NOT affect your abilities when trying to get pregnant. Herpes doesn’t mess around with the fertility, hormones, sperm or inside of the penis it’s a contagious skin infection. If you don’t have herpes he will have to be very careful not to ever have sex when he thinks he is getting or is has an out break in progress.
He should be taking antivirals, natural (ie Lysine) or medical (ie Valtrex) regularly. This will help to reduce his chances of him passing herpes to you, and he should get to know his symptoms so you can abstain from having sex.
If your hormone, fertility and uterus is normal and healthy then you may want to consider telling him to have his sperm levels checked out.
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November 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
it wont affect you getting pregnant but obviously you will need you partner to take a suppresive drug to reduce your chances of getting it you should read this as pregnancy can cause some concerns…
How may herpes simplex affect pregnancy?
If you have caught herpes simplex before becoming pregnant you can give birth normally. This is because during the last few months of pregnancy, babies in the womb develop antibodies to all the infections (‘childhood illnesses’) that their mothers have previously caught (and have antibodies for). These protect the baby from infection during childbirth and for 3 to 6 months afterwards; longer when breastfed – the virus is not in breast-milk (despite the report in Daily Mail 7th Sept).
During pregnancy, herpes simplex normally only causes concern:
if the mother catches it (for the first time) during the early stage of pregnancy (like other infections, this may trigger a miscarriage).
if the mother has it for the first time during the last few months of pregnancy. There will be no time for antibodies to have formed before birth.
if baby is being born before 32 weeks (very premature). These babies do not have full antibody protection so they could be infected during the birth if the mother has sores at the time.
In the second and third cases, there is a danger that the baby could contract herpes simplex so a Caesarean-section is usually performed.
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http://www.herpes.org.uk/faq.html#10