What causes lips to burn and itch? There are some bacterial, viral, and fungal infections that can make your lips feel itchy. The herpes simplex virus, candida overgrowth, and strep (group A Streptococcus) and staph (group A Staphylococcus) infections are all common causes of itchy and uncomf...
raised gray or pale lesions on the genitals. You can get this disease if your penis has direct contact with a syphilis sore (called a chancre) duringsex. Chancres come with primary syphilis and generally do not itch or cause pain, so you might not know you have one. Still, syphilis...
Sigh. Despite the millennial consolation, ‘All adventurous women do’ – nobody really wants to contract an STI. And yet, over half of all people will have an STI at some point in their lives.Chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, genital herpes and warts, can all be accompanied by unpleasan...
Shingles, as a rule of thumb, occur more commonly in populations who have had an episode of chickenpox previously. It’s explainable as the cause of chickenpox and shingles is the same virus known as Varicella Zoster. It is a type of herpes virus, so both chickenpox and shingle are herpeti...
The treatments will vary depending on the STI. With herpes, for example, antiviral creams and ointments can tame the burning and itching, while antiviral medicine (typically taken as a pill) helps to control the virus.In the case of anal warts, topical creams, cryotherapy, or even surgery ma...
I have done some research and found that BHT can help prevent a Herpes outbreak. For myself, it definitely works and it seems like a miracle because nothing else I’ve tried has done anything. The minute I feel a slight tingle, itch, pain where I usually get the herpes viruse, I ...
L-Lysine is an essential amino acid and some evidence suggests that supplemental lysine may be able to help prevent herpes infections (cold sores and genital herpes). It is an essential amino acid that your body does not synthesize and the amino acid typically plays an important role in our ...
I thought, and my online research suggested, that herpes meant outbreaks, and outbreaks meant lesions. But that’s not what herpes looks like for me. My outbreaks just look a lot like a single ingrown hair that always appears in the same spot. They itch, but they don’t hurt. They sca...