What is the newborn herpes?

neonatal herpes is a rare health condition in which the Herpes Simplex virus is transmitted from a pregnant woman to her child, usually at birth. Although the neonatal herpes is rare, only one newborn child affects every 3,000 to 20,000 live births, it is a serious and often fatal condition. The newborn is usually infected with herpes by receiving in contact with infected secretory secretory channels, although five percent of infants with herpes are infected in the womb and ten percent are infected just after birth. Neonatal herpes is more common when the mother gets herpes during pregnancy.

There are three different manifestations of the newborn Herpes: leather, eyes and mouth (here) herpes, disseminated (DiS) herpes and central nervous system (CNS) herpes. Here Herpes has the best forecast of these three, although if it is not treated, it can proceed to one of the other more dangerous forms of neonatal herpes. Here herpes is characterized by external lesions, especially on the face and on areas associated with trauma notBo surgery. On the other hand, the disseminated herpes affects the internal organs, especially the liver. Dis Herpes has the highest mortality of all forms of newborn herpes.

CNS Herpes is associated with the highest level of morbidity of three types of newborn herpes. In herpes CNS, spinal cord and brain are infected with herpes virus. This form of neonatal herpes can represent seizures or muscle tremor, lethargy, irritability and difficult feeding.

In the last few decades, Herpes Simplex mortality has been significantly reduced by antiviral drugs, including acyclovirus and visarabin. However, for these drugs to be effective, it is very important that the infection is diagnosed early. Unfortunately, 20 to 40 percent of infected infants cannot recover early treatment because they do not have visible symptoms. As far as the mother has acquired herpes during her pregnancy, the birth of a cosmic cut can help reducet chance of a child to infect the Herpes Simplex virus. It is very unlikely that a woman with a recurring herpes, acquired before pregnancy, will pass the infection to her child, so that the caesarean section is not marked in such cases.