Treatment is by antibiotics like Penicillin or Tetracycline. Unlike many of the above infection herpes is viral meaning that antibiotics are of no use in treating this complaint. Symptoms are pain for a few days before an outbreak followed by swelling first then a cluster of small red blisters which are painful and itchy. The condition recurs, every four to eight weeks. The first attack may be severe and then gradually lessen.
Depression is common at the time of the breakout.