Oral herpes (aka “cold sores”) is the most common form of herpes infection and is known as “herpes labialis”, which is the infection that occurs when the virus comes into contact with oral mucosa or abraded skin. Once you’ve contracted it you can never get rid of it–outbreaks decrease in frequency over time but once [...]
Cold Sore Oral – What Oral Cold Sores Are and Treatments for Them
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Articles
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Cold Sores Contagious? It Depends…
March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Articles
The Herpes Simplex Virus (usually the HSV-1 strain, although cases of oral infection involving HSV-2 have been documented, although rare) is what causes your cold sores, and as you probably already know, you can never get rid of the virus so therefore you’ll always continue to suffer from outbreaks of cold sores, although after you’ve [...]
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