Comments on: Herpes And Coffee

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:00:07 +0000

I contracted Herpes about 2 years ago and had terrible outbreaks. I didnt want to go down the medical path and wanted to stay as health as possible and I always think there is always a natural cure for a natural disease.
I stumbled upon Liquid Olive leaf extract made by Comvita.
The results were amazing as soon as I took it the breakouts just became slight rashes not the big sores I was getting 2-3 times a month. I get outbreaks 3-4 time a year now.
Also other problems such as thrush and other fungal problems were gone too.
I took triple the stated dose and found this to be of best benefit.
I now only take it if I feel the itching and it stops it dead in its tracks, hopefully in a few years it will be dormant for good.
Good luck, it is a horrible disease that’s always in the back of your mind.

By: Lala

Lala — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:33:01 +0000

Oh hell yes. I’ve had herpes for over 20 years and a definite trigger is coffee and also chocolate. Tea is fine, but coffee is a disaster. Not only does it make my skin look like shit in general, but it triggers massive outbreaks. Last week I drank strong coffee on three days (decaf on two, but the caffeine is not the trigger, so don’t think decaf is OK) and ALSO I ate some 75% cocoa chocolate (very dark) every day.

Holy frijoles, I am having a TERRIBLE outbreak now. I had one on the side of my nose that I am still recovering from, and while still scabby from that, I just started blistering up above my lip. My whole face is tingling and my right eye is sore. I am petrified of involvement of my eye and going freaking BLIND from getting herpes on my cornea. I am popping 1000mg of L-lysine every few hours in desperation (it is the oppisite of arginine and helps counteract it). I was taking acyclovir, but it seems to do nothing at all, it’s expensive, and I’m pretty much done with it. I just need to avoid coffee, super dark chocolate, and take my lysine every day. Out of those three things, coffee is by far the worst trigger. I have literally never had an outbreak where I haven’t been drinking coffee beforehand, and if I don’t drink it at all I can go years without one.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:45:59 +0000

I quit when I was diagnosed just over a year ago because my o.b. was awful and I was going to do whatever I could to avoid them. I went a year with only having maybe 5 cups of coffee. I was recently on holidays and too many late nights had me pick the habit back up and since being back at work I’m easily 2 cups a day. Welcome back outbreaks. Definitely a trigger for me…now I’m trying to decide what’s worse – the outbreak or the massive headache from no caffeine! ;-)

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:13:58 +0000

This is an interesting discussion. I have had genital herpes for over 30 years and was a sometime coffee drinker, but mostly tea. In the past year or so I’ve found that almost immediately after drinking coffee I’ll have an outbreak. This has happened enough time for me to make a direct link between the two since nothing else had changed in my diet. I do eat nuts and seeds and beans regularly as I’ve become a vegetarian in the past 6 months due to having had breast cancer. None of these seem to affect my herpes. Sadly, I’ve just found some new information about coffee possibly being able to stop hormone receptor-negative cancer, which is exactly the kind I have had!! So I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place. Do I go back to coffee and the dreaded herpes outbreaks and hope the new research on coffee means I’ll be lowering my chances of a recurrence of the breast cancer?? Life is certainly challenging!

By: leslie

leslie — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:13:20 +0000

i cannot drink coffee anymore since i contacted genital herpes 20 years ago. it is something in the oil of the coffee bean, and in all beans, and nuts. it’s high in arginine, which the herpes virus feeds off of. i would stay the hell away from coffee, chocolate, nuts, brown rice, anything high in arginine. coffee is known to stimulate the herpes virus. try green tea. much gentler. i was researching on the web about genital herpes and one came up where a woman told people to drink coffee to ease the outbreak. i was enraged! coffee is one of the top, text book things to avoid, along with nuts and seeds and beans for anyone dealing with herpes virus. good luck.

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:37:39 +0000

Interesting. I have had herpes for a while now (about 15 years) and have been fairly ok with outbreaks. I think on average every 8-10 months or so. Lately though, got this office job and the coffee is plentiful there. I drink several cups everyday, and since I started a year ago, been getting a lot more ob action. About every 2 months now.
Thing is, I drink a bit on weekends also but still never had the problem until the coffee consumption. I just thought about it now and googled this webpage. I’m going to quit the coffee and get back in a few months.

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