Herpes what medicine is best

Herpes is mainly caused by infection with the virus, so the clinical treatment of herpes is mainly the use of antiviral drugs and enhance the body immunity drugs to treat. Antiviral drugs generally choose oral purine nucleoside drugs, currently commonly used include acyclovir, famciclovir or valciclovir, these drugs can interfere with the virus DNA, so play a role in inhibiting herpes virus replication. General genital herpes, herpes zoster and other diseases, need oral antiviral drugs for about a week. If repeated frequent genital herpes, can be a long time oral acyclovir to prevent attacks, clinical often need to take more than half a year. Treatment of herpes in addition to the use of antiviral drugs, but also can use immunoregulatory drugs, such as interferon treatment.