Cold sore/ fever blister? If given oral, can it turn to herpes?!


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Cold sore/ fever blister? If given oral, can it turn to herpes?

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Cold sores are herpes - a type of herpes called hsv1 which mainly causes oral herpes on your mouth. It is not the kind that causes most genital herpes, this is hsv2, but hsv1 now causes up to 40% of new genital herpes cases, many of them caught through receiving oral sex from someone with cold sores. Hsv1 typically causes a milder infection when it is genital than hsv2.

Herpes, whether oral or genital, lies dormant for most of the time. You are infectious if you currently have a cold sore, for a few days after it has healed, and when you get any symptoms such as tingling on your lips. It is also sometimes possible to transmit the virus through oral sex when you have no symptoms whatsoever - I caught genital herpes this way. You are most at risk of catching genital herpes this way if you yourself have never had cold sores. But it is still rarely possible to catch it this way if you do have them, especially if your partner has an active sore.

Genital herpes is not as awful as it is made out to be - it is basically getting a cold sore down below every once in a while, which heals in about the same time as the ones on your lips, and has much the same symptoms. Like cold sores, some people get them frequently, while others never get them.




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