'Crazy horrible things' - don't listen to them!

I am feeling incensed with the volume of bad advice abundantly available and given to people with herpes by people with herpes. In many cases the advice lacks any coherence and serves to scare all readers who may have herpes and may be planning to carry on with their lives without the constant fear of it spreading to their brain or the thought of not having sex for the next decade.

I quote from a message board that I was recently reading:
'today I took care of a patient that had encephalo hsv meaning herpes inside his body spread up to his brain... you mentioned herpes in the lungs.. yes, there are all these crazy horrible things that can happen with HSV.'

Okay yes it is possible for herpes to spread around the body but I think we may be missing a few key facts here. For example did this person actually had some immunodeficincy such as AIDs or recent chemotherapy. Perhaps some real statistics about the likelyhood of this happening would also be of use with reference to a scientific paper. Also do I need to remind everyone that 80% of the population have one or the other form of herpes - should we spread the word and make sure that people start living in constant fear of the 'crazy horrible things that can happen with HSV'.

Better still is my favourite advice about how diet can help control herpes outbreaks;
'Get your Ph level up and get alot of oxygen to your cells then you should be good.'

I mean what does this even mean. 'Get alot of oxygen to my cells' - so I should breathe then (because I hadn't planned on stopping that anytime soon) and cut back on the vinegar to help solve my Ph problems. Are you really serious?

Please I implore you all - Seek the advice of a medical professional and learn the facts!!!!