1/05/2012
how do you get tested for herpes? Is there a blood test for it or is it strictly visual?
how do you get tested for herpes? Is there a blood test for it or is it strictly visual?
uring an outbreak:
Your healthcare provider will look at the sores and see if they seem typical of a herpes outbreak. If they are, your provider may swab the sores to see if they contain virus. However, this swab test is not always accurate and has a high risk of false negatives. An outbreak that looks like herpes, but that comes back with a negative test for virus, may still be a herpes infection. Testing a swab for virus is most useful in the first 48 hours of a first outbreak. After that, and during recurrent outbreaks, it becomes much less accurate.
Herpes outbreaks usually appear as one or more blisters that then break open to become sores.
# Not during an outbreak:
Although there are commercial blood tests for herpes that looks for antibodies against HSV1 and HSV2, they do not always give conclusive results. There are type-specific blood tests that are more accurate, but these may be more difficult to findThere is a visual test, blood test and culture swab test. You don't have to have a break out for it in order to detect it. Herpes can be detected in a blood test but it's not passed through blood.
Herpes isn't passed through blood so the Red Cross shouldn't test for it and you can donate blood even if you have herpes. It should test for blood borne illnesses like hepatitis and hiv.
You would have to go to your doctor and ask them to test you for herpes. If you have a break out you can get a swab culture test done of the break out which takes a sample of a sore or blister to be tested for herpes. The blood test can be done 2-4 weeks after being exposed to herpes then again with in another 2-4 months just to be sure. This can be done with or with out a break out. The visual exam is not very reliable, doctors can be wrong if all they do is take a look at what is going on down there and if you don't have a break out at the time then they can't see any thing. You should always ask to be tested by a doctor if you think you could have been exposed to the herpes virus.When they take your blood they remove any DNA from it before testing it so they do not know whose blood it is. To get a test you have to ask. Blood & swab.
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