Children as young as 3 years old can also be infected with genital herpes.The main ways of transmission of genital herpes in children as young as 3 years old are through contact objects and vertical transmission.
1. contact object transmission: children in life and genital herpes patients contact or family members have genital herpes patients, after close contact, may be infected with the disease. These contacts may be secretions from lesions, genital herpes blister fluid, towels and clothes contaminated with the herpes simplex virus, and so on.
2. Vertical transmission: Pregnant women with genital herpes transmit the disease to the fetus during labor and delivery. It is recommended that diagnosed patients with current infections do not give birth, the process of giving birth to the baby will probably be transmitted to the baby, resulting in keratitis, herpes pharyngitis, etc., and may lead to vulvovaginitis in the fetus, and finally cause genital herpes.
It is recommended that the child should also take usual precautions to avoid contracting genital herpes. For diagnosed children, they should be actively treated under the guidance of doctors.