if both persons already have the virus, if they have sex and lets say the condom broke,is it possible to get reinfected and if yes, what are the complications that follow?
Can A Person Who Is Affected By The Hpv Virus Get Reinfected By The Same Partner?
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HPV can be transmitted even with the use of a condom. Condoms can help the virus regress.
I can’t see how it would matter if your condom broke during sex..you and your partner share your virus type. You and your partner can’t transmit your shared HPV types back and forth. What sex does do is create micro-abrasions in the tissue of the cervix or of your vulva where the virus particles can enter and could find a home in tissue that does not have the virus and start the process of how the replicates in our tissue. Your own virus can actually shed to your own micro-abrasions…sort of antoinoculations…so your partner may share more virus particles or your own virus can find health tissue, There is a lubrications gels alone with condoms may help. The gel has an ingredient called carrageenan….but again you and your partner share your HPV type…In time both you and your partner will probably build a good immunity to your shared HPV types…and it will no longer cause a problem…however there is a chance that you may transmit the virus to a new sex partner…years down the road even with no wart…and sometimes our immune system can weaken and our HPV virus can reactivate…and a new sex partner can share a new HPV type with you. They are 40 high and low HPV types.
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Should you stop having sex with your partner if she finds out?
There is no need to stop having sexual contact with your partner if she is tested for the virus and finds out she has HPV. The virus is commonly exchanged between sexual partners, and by the time HPV is detected, it most likely already has been shared between the two of you. And, once a particular type of the virus has been exchanged, there is little risk of a “ping-pong” effect – in which you and your partner keep re-infecting each other with the same type. (In other words, you don’t need to worry about passing the same type of HPV back and forth.) However, if you become sexually involved with a different partner, you may pass any types of HPV that are “active” in your body to her, and vice versa.
Remember: HPV is not a sign that you or your partner has been unfaithful. HPV can be “silent” for many years before it is detected by a test. Your partner may have had the HPV virus for a long time, and there is no way to know when or from whom she got it.
What should you do if you have genital warts? Should you stop having sex?
There is a risk of spreading the HPV infection that caused the warts to your partner if you have direct genital contact while the warts are present. Using a condom may reduce that risk.
What can you do to protect yourself, and your partner?
Because HPV is so common, it is difficult to avoid it altogether. It is reasonable to expect that you will get HPV at some time during your life. Sexual contact with just one partner can be enough to get or spread the virus.
However, you can minimize any risks for you, and your partner, by:
• Limiting your number of sexual partners, and choosing partners who do the same.
• Wearing a condom when not in a long-term, mutually monogamous relationship. [Condoms protect against most sexually transmitted infections, including HPV. However, they do not provide complete protection against HPV, since they do not cover all genital skin.]
• Avoiding sexual contact with a new partner when genital warts are visible.
• Encouraging your wife or girlfriend to be screened regularly with a Pap test and (if she is age 30 or older) an HPV test. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15812…http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/cont…
the research team reports that a viral replication protein known as E2 binds the circular viral DNA to cell structures called spindle fibers that are present in a cell when it divides, a process known as mitosis. In mitosis, a single cell divides in two, creating two genetically identical daughter cells. By latching onto the spindle fibers of the cell as it divides, HPV DNA also divides and replicates itself in each of the new daughter cells where it can continue to replicate and persist indefinitely.
“In effect, HPV is able to mimic our own chromosomes, behaving as a sort of ‘mini-chromosome’, independently replicating and keeping pace as the cellular chromosomes replicate and the cell divides,” says Tom Broker, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics and co-author of the paper. “This allows the virus to remain in our bodies indefinitely, with the potential of causing serious disease years, even decades, after first exposure.”
Broker says that virtually all humans carry at least one type of HPV for much of their lives, usually
If, for instance, you and your boyfriend already have the same strain of HPV, then no you can’t get reinfected with it. If someone cheats and contract another strain of the HPV virus, then the partner can get infected with the different strain.
Since HPV is most commonly resolved on its own (the body normally fights off the virus), you will not contract the strain that your boyfriend has again, even if he still has it. So, if both of you have HPV strain 6 that causes warts, and two years later, your body fights it off, but your boyfriend still has the warts, you will not get warts again. Your body will be immune to that strain of the virus. I recommend you get the Gardisil shot if you are between 9-26 years old. I hope I helped! Good luck!
No, even the woman gets treated for the physical symptoms of HPV, the virus is still in your system. you are not going to pass it back and forth. Normally the body’s immune system clears the virus in 2 years and at that point, you build up an immunity to that strain.