DSC Clinic - Department of STI Control Singapore

26 Oct.,2023

 

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Honesty in a relationship helps to ease unnecessary worry, stress and guilt as to whether you will or have passed the infection to your partner, or that they have passed it to you.

Telling your partner that you have genital herpes shows that you care about them and want to protect them from getting genital herpes, leading the way towards a healthy and trusting relationship.

How to tell my partner?

If it is a new partner, it is best to give it some time before telling. Allow your relationship to develop a little. It will be easier to talk about it if both find comfort and trust in each other’s company first.

Your partner might take the news badly no matter how well you try to deliver it. If so, give them some time to think it over in private, calm down and come to terms with it.

How can I reduce my partner’s chances of getting infected?

The first step is to get your partner tested with a blood test.

If he/she has not been infected with genital herpes, then there are a number of safer sex practices to adopt such as using condoms all the time and avoiding sexual intercourse during outbreaks.

If an outbreak occurs, couples should try to avoid skin-to-skin contact because this is when the virus is most likely to be passed from person to person. This period includes the time from when your partner first show signs of an outbreak such as a tingling or burning until the last of the sores has healed.​

If you both have the same type of HSV, you will not continue to pass the infection back to each other since both of you already have the infection.

Seek medical attention as early as possible to reduce the severity and duration of the outbreak.


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