Jocelyn Borgmeyer
List of home remedies for cold sores.
Cold sores treatments and remedies
Understanding Cold Sores -- Treatment How Are Cold Sores Diagnosed? To see if you have the herpes simplex virus (HSV), which causes cold sores, your doctor may simply examine the cold sore or may take a culture from it. The doctor may also test blood for antibodies to the virus.
It never fails. Every time you have a big meeting coming up or an important presentation to give, you develop an unsightly cold sore on your lip. You wake up with a small cluster of tiny, harmless-looking, white blisters, which quickly explode into a painful sore the size of Rhode Island.
The little fluid-filled lesions that show up near your lips are called cold sores, or sometimes, fever blisters. These blisters are caused by a herpes virus and no cure exists. They usually occur when you are under stress or if your immune system is weakened.
