Can you get a canker sore on your lip? How can you tell a canker sore from herpes?

by JasonTank

Can you get a canker sore on your lip? How can you tell a canker sore from herpes?

Canker Sores: Medically, it is known as aphthous ulcers. Even though it looks very similar to fever blisters but they have different characteristics. Firstly, canker sore is not contagious like fever blisters. It occurs INSIDE the mouth only and is comparatively bigger in size. The exact cause behind this problem is not clearly known. It may run in families.

Herpes or HSV-1 (Cold sores) are Fever Blisters: This is also known as cold sores and is caused due to infection by herpes simplex virus type 1. The blisters appear both inside as well as outside the oral cavity and are accompanied by some more symptoms like swollen lymph nodes and fever. They are painful, and are open sores or lesions in or around the mouth, can cluster up or be a single blister. So if you have a sore ON your lip it is most likely a cold sore, if it is INSIDE your mouth most likely a canker sore. Good luckCanker sores same as herpes. But if it's limited to the lip, the cells that are affected are their in that one spot. They emerge when you are sick, stressed, under emotional trauma.

Now if you have them, touch them, and move the hand to genitals then it's herpes as you have transfered the cells now to that place. So keep your hands off of them, let them heal.

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