{"id":168535,"date":"2023-02-02T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=168535"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:01:27","slug":"i-got-herpes-on-my-face-at-a-concert-and-ended-up-in-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/i-got-herpes-on-my-face-at-a-concert-and-ended-up-in-a-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"I got herpes on my face at a concert \u2014 and ended up in a hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For this fan, the memory of attending the Falls music festival in Australia will stick with her for life \u2014 unfortunately.<\/p>

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Taneesha Crowe, 23, warned her followers on TikTok about the perils of concertgoing after she contracted herpes on her forehead at the Melbourne event, according to a report.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo five years ago I finished school and I went to Falls, and when I got home I was so sick,\u201d Crowe shared on the social media app in a recent post, which was deleted shortly after her story went viral.<\/p>

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Crowe, who was 18 years old at the time of the infection, went on to develop a \u201cmassive painful scab\u201d \u2014 that soon left her unable to eat or drink, landing her in the hospital for five days.<\/p>

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\u201cI couldn\u2019t keep any food down, I couldn\u2019t keep any water down. I couldn\u2019t sleep because I was having cold sweats,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Doctors initially believed the mark on her head was a simple sunburn \u2014 until her condition worsened, with fever and an evolving rash that eventually turned black, resembling a scab.<\/p>

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\u201cI remember going to the pharmacist and she was like, \u2018Oh my God, are you OK? Did you fall over?\u2019 I was so embarrassed,\u201d she continued, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Determined to get rid of the growing scab, she got tested for staphylococcus infection and the shingles virus, which both returned negative.<\/p>

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One follow-up with Crowe\u2019s doctors prompted them to rush her to a hospital after seeing how drastically the rash had worsened.<\/p>

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After five days of testing, Crowe was diagnosed with herpes, which is caused by the herpes simplex virus.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBasically it was a huge cold sore on my face,\u201d said Crowe.<\/p>\n

There are two types of HSV: HSV1, oral herpes, and HSV2, genital herpes.<\/p>\n

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