How to differentiate between genital herpes and friction burn

In this video, I will show you to differentiate between herpes and friction burn.
To be more precise you will learn how STD doctors differentiate between those two common conditions in “real life”
I am (Slava Fuzayloff) an STD doctor at STDcenterNY one of the busiest STD centers in NYC. Go here to learn more https://stdcenterny.com/

I have been practising internal medicine and helping people with friction and herpes for over two decades.

This is what I am going to cover in this video:
✓ Importance of differentiating herpes from friction burn.
✓ How do doctors tell the difference between those two genital skin conditions
✓ I will go over the importance of the history of the rash in establishing the correct diagnosis and compare the history of genital herpes to friction burn rash.
The history of the genital rash consists of:
o what caused it
o how much time passed before the appearance of the skin rash
o how rash is evolving (or changing) over time.

✓ I will do side by side visual comparison of friction burn to herpes rash.

Timestamps:
00:00 How to differentiate between genital herpes and friction burn
00:41 Why is it important to distinguish between genital herpes and genital friction burn
01:30 How doctors differentiate between genital herpes and genital friction burn
02:48 History of the rash
03:00 Events preceding the rash
03:45 Incubation period
04:40 Prodrome period
05:33 Visual examination
05:52 Location of the rash
07:22 Comparison of the rash

For people who prefer reading over watching the video, we have an article that compares herpes to friction burn: https://stdcenterny.com/articles/geni...

Thank you for watching ☺