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Honey Works Better than Drugs for Herpes

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Post date August 13, 2010
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Mainstream physicians usually prescribe Acyclovir ointment or other topical medications to treat herpes outbreaks. But new research shows that nature has a better solution.This remedy works faster than any of the mainstream treatments, and with fewer side effects.

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Honey has long been regarded as one of the best natural wound healers and infection ?ghters. When a researcher treated patients with Acyclovir for one herpes outbreak and honey for another, overall healing time with honey was 43 percent better than with Acyclovir for sores on the lips and 59 percent better for genital sores.

According to Nutrition and Healing:

“None of the volunteers experienced any side effects with repeated applications of honey, although three patients developed local itching with the Acyclovir.”

Resources:
Nutrition and Healing November 2004
Medical Science Monitor 10(8):MT94-98; August 2004

Homeopathy to Help Treat Herpes (homeopathy.suite101.com)
Overview of the Early Stages of Herpes on the Mouth (brighthub.com)
Homeopathic Remedies for Herpes (homeopathy.suite101.com)
Valtrex as a prophylactic? (ask.metafilter.com)
Are Warts Related to Herpes? (consults.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Kissing Can Cause Herpes

If you think a kiss is just a kiss, you might want to think again, for the simple pleasure now comes with a health warning-it can cause herpes. The Australian Herpes Management Forum, which is to start an awareness campaign, has warned that a kiss is a major transmitter of herpes. The symbol of affection “poses risks to both adults and children”.
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“No parent kissing their child or partner kissing their girlfriend wants to pass along the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), but people should be aware this is the main method of transmission. Once you have been infected with HSV-1 or HSV-2, the virus stays in your body for life and can reactivate at any time,” the Australian media quoted AHMF’s Executive Director Tricia Berger.

“If you have a herpes sore on or near your mouth, it is likely that you’ll pass the virus along to whomever you kiss. It is also possible to transmit the virus even when there are no apparent sores or symptoms, but the risk is higher when the sores are visible,” Berger said.

HSV-1 is the variant of the virus otherwise referred to as cold sores. It is commonly acquired as a child from contact, often a kiss, with adult relatives.

Berger said the herpes risk posed by kissing would be the main theme of a new community service awareness campaign. Television and radio ads will be aired nationally from August up to National Herpes Awareness Day, in October.

Source: The Times Of India

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Early Childhood Stress Can Have a Lingering Effect on Your Health

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Post date February 22, 2009
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Stressful experiences in early childhood can have long-lasting impacts on children‘s health that can persist well beyond the resolution of the situation.
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A study revealed impaired immune function in adolescents who experienced either physical abuse or time in an orphanage as youngsters. Even though their environments had changed, physiologically they were still responding to stress. How the immune system develops is very much influenced by early environment.

The researchers looked for high levels of antibodies against the common and usually latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). While roughly two-thirds of Americans carry this virus, which causes cold sores and fever blisters, people with healthy immune systems are able to keep the virus in check and rarely if ever have symptoms. However, people with weakened immune systems can have trouble suppressing HSV-1 and produce antibodies against the activated virus.

Adolescents who had experienced physical abuse or stressful home environments as children had higher levels of HSV-1 antibodies, showing their immune systems were compromised.

Resources:

Science Daily January 28, 2009

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences February 2, 2009

Childhood stress leads to long-term health problems (ctv.ca)
Childhood Stress Compromises Immune System (nlm.nih.gov)

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Chicken Pox Can Affect Oral Health

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Post date February 21, 2009
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Chicken Pox, that itchy red rash caused by varicella zoster virus, infected nearly four million people every year until a vaccine in 1995 slashed its incidence by 83 percent.
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If you had chicken pox, the varicella zoster virus may still be present in your body and could lead to serious and irreversible oral health problems such as herpes-type lesions and severe bone damage to the jaws.

The symptoms are pain, swelling or infection of the gums, or their poor healing, loosening of teeth, heaviness in the jaw, and the like.

Varicella zoster can lie dormant for decades and if activated can lead to herpes zoster (HZ), more commonly referred to as shingles, according to a study.

The virus affects nearly one million Americans each year, 50 percent of all new cases of herpes zoster occur in individuals over the age of 60.

“Herpes zoster manifests as painful blisters that erupt along the sensory nerves usually on

one side of the body or face,” according to study co-author MA Pogrel. “It can be a debilitating disease that can lead to osteonecrosis of the jaw and vision loss in addition to a prolonged painful syndrome.”

Osteonecrosis is a condition in which bone in the lower or upper jaw becomes exposed. As a result, the jaw bone suffers severe damage and/or death, eventually leading to tooth loss.
However, Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) spokeswoman Laura Murcko, noted that “your dentist can help detect early signs of osteonecrosis of the jaw by checking for loose teeth, detached gums as well as taking dental x-rays.”

Murcko, a dentist, recommended that patients consume 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day, add vitamin D to their diet, exercise and weight train, quit smoking and decrease caffeine and alcohol intake, said an AGD release.

Sources: The Times Of India