One of the serious problems with herpes is that once infected with a virus that causes them - herpes simplex virus I - we remain infected for life, and today there is no way to rid the body of the virus.
The virus is dormant for most of the time, and we are less of a symptom, but when the immune system becomes compromised due to stress, a viral infection, poor lifestyle habits or any other common triggers that the virus reawakens. In this state, it replicates and moves to the surface of the skin, where it causes cell damage.
Despite the fact that there are treatments that violate the replication of the virus, there are no absolutely effective and natural remedies that were equally effective without the high cost and risk of unpleasant side effects.
However, there has recently been a big step forward in our understanding of herpes. Scientists from Duke University Medical Center have made some progress in understanding the state of rest and how it wakes up. The hope is to develop an effective treatment that awakens the virus from its resting state, after which it can be attacked by antiviral treatment, such as acyclovir.
Antiviral treatment is effective only when the herpes simplex virus is awake and replicates. It should theoretically be possible to wake up a virus by interfering with the process that keeps it at rest, and as soon as it wakes up antiviral treatment, it can attack the entire virus, completely ridding its body.
Once this happens, the sufferer will not have any new outbreaks of the disease, and therefore it promises to be a giant leap forward in the field of herpes treatment.
