While pregnancy is inarguably one of the most precious times of a woman’s life, it also requires extensive care to be taken. Apart from the responsibility of eating and taking your medical supplements on time, you also need to be on the lookout for any complications, frequently visit your gynecologist, and keep up with busy shopping routines for the baby alongside.

One of the most crucial risk factors associated with pregnancy is when the mother also has genital herpes. Although the chances of transmitting the disease to your child are quite low, there’s still plenty of care that needs to be taken. Let’s see how.

It can be transmitted to another person even when there are no symptoms present.  The unusual thing about herpes is that 80% of the people infected don't know if they have the virus.
Most people who infect others don't even realize they have herpes.  
Since one in three people in the world suffer from Herpes, let us look at some Herpes facts and a way to treat it using UGC treatment.  

There are two kinds of herpes - HSV1 and HSV-2.  The herpes infection is contagious, and it can be transmitted to another person through sexual or oral contact.
HSV-1 virus is usually transmitted through physical contact. Any kind of mouth-to-mouth contact can also transmit the virus to the uninfected person.
On the contrary, HSV2 virus is transmitted mainly through sexual intercourse and genital contact.

Genital herpes was the most talked about disease before HIV/Aids hit the headlines in the early 80s. Herpes gained notoriety because once someone had it in their system; it would stay there forever, resurfacing every now and then to cause an outbreak before becoming dormant again. Popular media even came up with catchy slogans such as, “unlike true love, it was forever’.

A survey by World Health Organization suggests that around over half a billion people between the age of 15-49 develop a genital infection caused by HSV-1 or HSV-2 on a global scale.

The disease is accompanied with minor or no symptoms in some cases. These symptoms are hard to identify and are mistaken for other diseases. Only 15% of people in the U.S. that were suffering from genital herpes were able to acquire a prior diagnosis in 2012.

Herpes is a common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, 20 percent of sexually active adults carry genital herpes. Young adults are prone to contracting the HSV-1 infection. This infection later develops to cause genital herpes in young adults. According to a survey by WHO, the estimate of new HSV-1 infection among people of the age 0-49 was around 11 million in 2012.