![]() ✓ Unlike herpes, which heals without scarring, chancroid can form a scar if it is left untreated. ✓ The healing time for herpes is much shorter (1 week on average) compared to chancroid, which takes 8 weeks to heal. The lymph nodes eventually become purulent (meaning they produce a lot of pus). ✓ The skin lesions in both conditions are painful, but chancroid presents with significantly more painful and enlarged lymph nodes. ✓ Both conditions can present as a sore, but unlike herpes skin lesions, which transform to sores eventually (they start as a red skin patch that turns into bumps, blisters, and then sores), chancroid starts as a sore that over time gets bigger and deeper with significant discharge. ✓ Unlike a herpes skin flare-up, which is preceded by prodrome symptoms (flu-like symptoms such as fever and chills) and “nerve pain,” chancroid has no preceding signs and symptoms. These pictures show the differences between herpes and primary syphilis lesions. The scar formation depends on how deeply the lesion penetrated the skin. ✓ Unlike herpes sores, which heal without scarring, syphilis sores commonly leave a scar. ![]() ✓ Syphilis sores take a long time to heal (6 weeks), unlike a herpes flare-up, which on average resolves in 7–10 days. But with herpes, lymphadenopathy is painful with syphilis, it is not. ✓ Both conditions cause localized groin lymph nodes enlargement (lymphadenopathy). The syphilis sore is painless and for that reason is often missed. ✓ Herpes lesions, unlike syphilis, are very painful during all stages (bumps, blisters, and sores). ✓ Unlike herpes skin lesions, which change from one stage to another (bumps, blisters, and sores), syphilis lesions stay in one stage (ulcer) for a prolonged time (4–6 weeks). ![]() But the primary syphilis sore (chancre) is not preceded by any signs or symptoms, unlike a herpes skin flare-up, which is preceded by prodrome symptoms and “nerve pain.” ✓ Both conditions can present with sores. These pictures show the differences between herpes and yeast infection. ![]() A herpes outbreak takes at least a week to heal. ✓ Most yeast infections heal within 1–3 days. ✓ Herpes, unlike yeast infection, presents with painful groin lymph nodes enlargement, usually on the side of the rash. But with herpes, the lesions can be preceded by flu-like symptoms such as fever, chills, and fatigue and by tingling of the skin (“nerve pain”) on the side of the evolving skin lesion. With a yeast infection, nothing happens before the main symptoms. ✓ The prodrome period-the time before the symptoms described above appear-also differentiates these two conditions. Herpes lesions, unlike yeast infections, are mostly one-sided clustered lesions with minimal swelling of the underlying skin. With herpes, the initial itch progresses to painful skin lesions that go through multiple stages over a few days’ times: bumps, blisters, sores, and crusted sores. Abundant white thick discharge (also known as “cottage cheese” discharge) is present most of the time. With a yeast infection, the entire vulva and vaginal area become even itchier and red and swollen. ✓ Both conditions begin with a mild itch, but then symptoms progress differently. These pictures show the differences between herpes and folliculitis sores. Folliculitis bumps might cause discoloration or even scarring after they heal. ✓ Herpes lesions last for 7 to 10 days, whereas a folliculitis rash usually heals within a few days.Ī herpes rash heals without scarring since it affects only a superficial layer of skin. Folliculitis does not present with enlarged lymph nodes unless a very large skin area is involved, and it is a very severe case. ✓ Herpes presents with localized groin lymph node enlargement on the side of the rash. ✓ Herpes skin lesions are very painful all the time, and the pain worsens with irritation.įolliculitis bumps are painful only if they’re touched. ✓ A herpes rash goes through multiple stages (skin redness, blister, sore, crusted sore).Ī folliculitis rash, however, appears suddenly and stays in one stage: bumps filled with pus called pustules. A herpes rash is usually preceded by systemic symptoms that are flu-like, such as fever, chills, and fatigue, as well as “nerve pain.”Ī folliculitis rash, on the other hand, does not have a prodrome period-that is, nothing precedes the rash’s appearance.
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