22nd October 2009
HPV testing for women
Many doctors will argue that testing for HPV is an art, not a science. This simply means that there is no precise, one hundred percent accurate way to test for HPV.
The most common symptoms of HPV, being warts, are generally ea...
06th July 2009
Here is one of the simple truths of love and sex in the modern world: You need to be willing to have frank, open discussions with your partner about all matters relating to sex.
To put it bluntly, it’s not the 1950’s anymore, and it’s not a great...
23rd June 2009
Women, get a pap smear and an HPV test at your next opportunity. Do not put it off or deem it unnecessary.
Sorry if we seem a bit militant on this front. All men have to worry about when it comes to HPV is the problem of dealing with an ugly infection....
12th June 2009
One of the first things you need to know about HPV testing for men… is that you need to be tested before you can be certain.
If you have any degree of sexual experience, getting tested is a good idea. You can’t just inspect yourself, trust that you...
20th May 2009
You’ve probably contracted HPV at some point in your life. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ve contracted genital HPV, too.
Shocked? Don’t be. More than half of all adults have had “common warts” at one point or other, warts that affect t...
14th May 2009
Look, when it comes to hand warts, warts on your elbows, your knees, the soles of your feet, you can go ahead and cry whatever crazy concoction you may have read about on the internet. A few of those home remedies are sort of effective, and most of them d...
05th May 2009
HPV isn’t just one condition or one disease. Human Papillomavirus spreads across a wide range of different infection types. The good news is that the most common types are easily treatable, and that many of the least common types tend to be essentially ...
17th April 2009
Anogenital warts are a commonly misunderstood disease. Caused by Human papilloma virus types 6, 11, 42, 43, 44 and 55, among others, anogenital warts, sometimes simply called genital warts, are a type of genital HPV, but are only one small subsection of g...
27th March 2009
To eliminate any possibility of misunderstanding right off the bat: Smoking does not cause HPV, and it does not increase your likelihood of contracting HPV (at least, not anymore than it increases your likelihood of contracting any other disease). The mai...
19th March 2009
There is no magic diet, no special fruit or vegetable that will make you impervious to HPV. There’s no way to reduce risk of contracting HPV by 100%, as even the HPV vaccine only protects against the high risk forms that can lead to cancer and so on. Th...
13th March 2009
Perhaps the most shocking fact about HPV is this: 90% of people will contract HPV before they die. “Human papilloma virus” sounds really scary, so this news may worry some people, but rest easy, most strains of HPV are pretty benign. You may see warts...
09th March 2009
Looking for some quick HPV statistics? Alright, let’s cut to the chase. We’ll lay out some of the most important details regarding human papilloma virus in an easy to read Q&A format.
How likely am I to catch HPV?
You are probably going to contr...
03rd March 2009
It’s estimated that nine in ten people will contract HPV at some point in your life. Don’t worry, though. Most HPV strains are pretty harmless. Most HPV strains either result in warts, or no visible symptoms or health complications at all. The forms t...
24th February 2009
A word of warning: This article focuses on the methods employed by doctors and over the counter remedies to remove warts. If the very suggestion of using scissors on a wart makes you squeamish, you may want to skip this one.
That said, most HPV infecti...
16th February 2009
The only way to be one hundred percent certain that you are HPV-free is with medical testing.
If you want to know whether or not you have contracted a genital form of HPV, consider a few factors:
How many sexual partners have you had?
It’s said...
