anyone know what causes fever blisters, I have heard its from times of high stress and also that you may be sick and your body is fighting out the infection, either way, wondering seriously what causes them and any remedies for healing them?
2006-06-20 10:08:10 · 2 answers · asked by Sandie L 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Fever blisters are caused by a contagious virus called herpes simplex. There are two types of herpes simplex virus. Type 1 usually causes oral herpes, or fever blisters. Type 2 usually causes genital herpes. Although both type 1 and type 2 viruses can infect oral tissues, more than 95 percent of recurrent fever blister outbreaks are caused by the type 1 virus.
2006-06-20 10:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by cooookie3825 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
extreme cases of fever blisters are actually herpes and if you get them all the time i would go to the doctor but if you just get one or two every once in a while i would just use some medicated chapstick like blistex or carmex
2006-06-20 10:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Tasha 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋