[DIYbio] Avoiding Herpes Silmplex

Hi all,

-> medical diy bio

Yesterday I was at something we call a "Christmas market" , which is kind of like a workshop with shacks, where they serve different kind of (hot) punch / negus.

I tasted the punch from a friend from her cup, afterwards I noted (it was dark outside) she had a fever blister.

It was just one draught, and maybe the virus particles weren't on the cup (the blister was at the very mouth corner). And there's a chance that I touched another spot.



However, I know too much about Herpes Simplex to just let go. Around two hours later, when I got home I did a quick google research for antiviral stuff and found out:

- green tea: drank a cup and then ate the stuff inside the bag. Today morning again.
- garlic:  ate two entire smashed garlics. Or rather drunk them, because they tasted cruelly.
- zink: found we had zink pills. One pill 100% of daily zink requirement. Took 2.
- fortunately I had tasted some beer (around 50 mL) an houre before. (Usually I don't drink ethanolic beverages. I like my ethanol in the lab for sterilization purposes). We learnt at university that beer (actually the Humulus) has antiviral properties. "Beer-drinkers don't get fever blisters" my professor had stated.


As said, it's not sure I got in touch with the virus anyway. But any other proposals how to fight them off in case they did reach me? I think the main thing should be to delay propagation of the virus so my immune system can fight it off and hinders it from reachin the nerves where it remains dormant the entire life?