The treatment should be started as soon as the first symptoms appear. It can often reduce the length of the outbreak and the infectious period. Recurrent severe attacks can be treated by anti-HSV agents in pill form. The development of the disease differs from person to person. Some people will have few or no reactivations while others have recurrent outbreaks.
Recurrences seem to become less frequent with age.
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