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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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Suggest Medication For Vaginal Herpes

Dear Doc, question related to pregnancy.

My name is Jennifer, Im 24 years old and my height is 1.75 and weight now 63 kg. No medical history.
Im currently 36 weeks pregnant and have an important question about taking acyclovir.
During week 25 of my pregnancy my husband infected me with vaginal herpes. I was tested positive for HSV2 and as there were no antibodies it was a primary infection. I took 5 days dose of 200mg 5 times daily of acyclovir. The infection was very small and quickly gone.
To avoid neonatal herpes i want to take all precautions...
Since then no further outbreaks but im concerned about getting it while giving birth. Should i take suppressive acyclovir during the last 4 weeks or not ?
thanks so much (i live in Hong Kong)
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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