WHAT ARE COLD SORES?

Cold sores are ugly and quite painful blister type sores that normally occur on the edge of the lip or nose. They can and will occur anywhere on the body where the virus can find its way through a crack in the skin.

The replication process of the herpes simplex virus, type 1 and type 2, causes all cold sores, fever blisters and oral herpes outbreaks. The sores by either type herpes are identical in all respects.

When you are infected, the invading virus will claim a nearby nerve fiber as its lifetime home. That virus family will create cold sores on the surface end of that same nerve every time.

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