Can One Contract Herpes After Oral Sex?

Posted on Fri, 11 Dec 2015

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Fri, 11 Dec 2015 Answered on

Mon, 4 Jan 2016 Last reviewed on

Question : After oral contact with herpes female could symptoms appear?

Answered by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia (40 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Kindly send details of the query.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.

I can understand your concern for the possibility of herpes after oral contact with female.

In view to help you best I humbly request you to kindly provide certain important details :

- Since how long you have had oral contact.

- Was it an oral contact or genital with oral.

- Was there any active blisters or ulcers in other partner.

- Are there any cuts at the site of contact.

Hope to hear soon from your side.

With regards,

Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia (24 minutes later)

Oral to her and oral to me, three days, no sores, she stated she was not having outbreak

Answered by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
No possibility of herpes.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Welcome back and thanks for your swift follow up.

After getting the information let me reassure you that there are no chance of getting herpes. It is due to the fact that herpes is contagious in its active state where one person have either blisters or ulcers. In addition the other partner must have cuts or abrasion from where the virus could get entry.

So analyzing the above fact you can get that you don't have any cuts and the other partner don't have any active lesions. So just relax yourself and don't worry about the possibility of herpes.

I hope this helps.

With good health wishes,

Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY & Sexually transmitted diseases

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar