Following the proper levels of exercise and routines is the key to maintaining and living the best life possible when afflicted with the herpes simplex virus. There are two different control methods that are being worked on and tried today.

They are:

1. Antiviral therapy
2. Immunotherapy
Both of the antiviral and immunotherapy will work to change more lives and work with people to help create more peace of mind in their lives than of any other program that has been developed towards the remission of herpes. Following and working towards things like this and going through the treatment process will help people to get their lives back on track and has save countless numbers of relationships and friendships.

Antiviral Therapy

The objective of the antiviral therapy is to allow the development of drugs which are able to make distinctions between cells that harbor the herpes simplex virus and those cells that don’t. The drugs that are developed must be extremely selective by destroying the virus inside those afflicted cells and not harm the normal cells. In that lays the caveat.
In addition to that the antiviral drugs must also destroy the virus on the whole without leaving behind any fragments of it or producing dangerous mutations that could cause problems later on down the line. At the core the antiviral agents have to be only lethal to the virus itself but be non-toxic as to not affect the body’s cells.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is an extremely exciting area of medicine. The immunological researchers are currently working toward the development of agents which will help to fight the virus through the natural stimulation of the body’s immune response system. Some of the substances that are currently available are able to activate the specialized white blood cells.

Diet

One of the most important factors of helping to keep people in their remission is diet. It’s been founds that foods that are very high in l-lysine and low in arginine can help to stave off herpes outbreaks.