Extra’s
Extra’s
Complications:
- Psychological impact
- Secondary infections
- Herpetic whitlow
- Adjacent skin infection
- Ocular involvement
- Balanitis
- Urinary retention
- Proctitis (common in homosexual males)
- 3x increased HIV risk
- Neonatal herpes (risk highest if primary infection in last 6 weeks)
- Encephalitis
- Disseminated multi-organ failure