HSV / HPV transmission with condoms. How high is the risk?
I keep reading that there is a real risk of catching herpes or warts even in fully protected vaginal sex.
I can see how it can happen theoretically, via skin-to-skin contact. But how high is the risk really, in the absence of visible sores?
Risk of infection? Depends if you use counter-measures like Coconut oil lube. . .
Repost of article on how to prevent infection by herpes and bacteria. Chemical and Engineering review study of personal lubricants - 9 times lower risk of infection using coconut oil as lubricant.
Studies raise questions about safety of personal lubricants. Some experiments find cell damage and increased risk of sexually transmitted infections.
"Although most people will list only K-why Jelly when asked to recall the names of personal lubricants, hundreds of the products are being used for sex across the globe. These sex aids are designed to make things easier. So it's a little unsettling that experiments carried out in recent years have indicated that some of the products might be smoothing the way for disease transmission.
Used to reduce friction and increase pleasure during intercourse, lubricants are about a $219 million market in the USA Alone, according to the Chicago-based market research firm SymphonyIRI Group.
For instance, K-why Warming Jelly, which has an osmolality more than 30 times the body's own fluid, increased herpes transmission more than ninefold compared with rodents not administered lubricant (BMC Infect. Dis. , DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-331).
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Commenter Michael: "These studies suggest that perhaps light, vegetable based oils, typically shunned because they are not water soluble like natural body fluids, may be a better base for formulating personal lubricants. " I. E. Antibacteriological and antiviral oil like Coconut oil for lubrication. . . That do not damage skin and increase herpes transmission, unlike K-why Jelly.
In a nutshell, herpes viruses have a lipid (fatty) skin - " Regarding the natural treatment of herpes infection, we can take advantage of the characteristics of the virus to impact its tendency to erupt. Since the virus is essentially a piece of DNA surrounded by a fatty layer, if we target this aspect we can largely "disable" the virus. Luckily, we have two substances which are known to target this tendency of the virus. . . (#2 coconut oil). [URL]https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/ask-the-doctor/herpes/[/URL].