Taking care of newborn with herpes! August 26, 2007
Posted by zovirax in : Zovirax , trackbackTo avoid transferring herpes on a newborn baby, a woman, who suffers from herpes, must wash her hands well before touching a baby. If there are cold sores on your lips, it is necessary to use a disposable surgical mask or a gauze bandage, during taking care of a child.
Until the sores become dry. When you have herpes on our lips, don’t kiss or smell the baby. If herpes has affected any other area of your body, it must be well closed and should not contact with a baby.
REMEMBER:
When you have felt itching, action of a virus has already began, and it’s time to start using antiviral drugs like Zovirax.
Use treatment!
Medical products will help to stop development of relapse or to speed up recovery.
Use cream or ointment on the basis of acyclovire, they will help faster curing of sores.
Put antiviral ointments with cosmetic sticks, not with your fingers.
For putting antiviral ointments on the places affected by herpes (Acycloire, Zovirax) use special cosmetic sticks, like shown on the picture. Drawing ointments to the center of affected area directly with fingers can cause a transferring herpes from lips to fingers, what is highly undesirable.
- If at you often have relapses take care that the medicine was at you always near you. As you hold passport and money near you;
- Creams and ointments on the basis of acyclovyre must be used not less than 4-5 times a day.
- If cold sores don’t disappear within ten days, you should visit a dermatologist, because a cold on lips may be a symptom of some other serious disease, that needs special treatment.
- Long lasting cold on lips (more than 30 days) may be caused by reduction in immunity oncological disease or HIV/AIDS.
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