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No, because they are different viruses.
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What type of herpes do you have when it itchs?
All types of herpes cause itching or burning. This is true for oral herpes, genital herpes, chicken pox, and shingles.
What is valacyclovir hcl used for?
No such drug. Valaciclovir is used to treat and prevent herpes simplex and related infections, such as genital herpes, shingles and CMV.
What is common about the herpes virus?
It has nothing to do with colds or flu. Herpes are cold sores, chicken pox, Shingles, and genital herpes. They are all spread thru direct contact.
What is herpetic infection?
Herpetic means related to herpes. A herpetic infection could be genital herpes, shingles, cold sores, or other infections caused by viruses in the herpes family.
Which skin disorder is caused by a type of herpes virus?
Some common names for the skin diseases of herpes are cold sores, fever blisters, genital herpes, shingles, whitlow, wrestler's herpes, and ophthalmic herpes.
Does herpes drive you crazy?
No. Not in the sense of causing actual damage to the brain. You are thinking of syphilis. Herpes causes chicken pox, genital herpes, cold sores, shingles and some other stuff.
Which herpes causes shingles?
Herpes zoster causes shingles.
What does acyclovir treat?
Acyclovir is used to treat any disease caused by viruses in the herpes family. These disease include chicken pox, cold sores, genital herpes, and shingles.
Is acyclovir an antibiotic?
Acyclovir is an antiviral medication, NOT an antibiotic. It is usedfor the treatment of herpes—as in cold sores, genital herpes, shingles, and chicken pox. It is also used to pevent outbreaks.
What type of medication is acyclovir?
An anti-viral, used long-term in genital herpes, and short tems for Shingles or other viral diseases.
Is nystatin used for genital herpes?
No. Herpes is a virus, the same one that causes shingles, cold sores and chicken pox. Nystatis is an antifungal, which will have no effect on viral infections whatsoever. Herpes is treated with an antiviral, such as aciclovir, should you require it.
Can you get shingles vaccine if you have had herpes?
Herpes zooster can cause shingles. This type of herpes causes chicken pox. It's slightly different then the herpes that causes cold sores and genital herpes. If you have had chicken pox as a child then you could possibly get shingles later in life.
