Posted on March 31, 2010.
Fever Blister - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) can cause infections that affect the mouth, face, genitals, skin, buttocks and anal region. This article will focus on non-genital herpes. Many people contract the virus show no symptoms. For others, painful blisters appear near the area where the virus entered the body. In general, bulbs heal completely, but reappear when expected (or desired). Between attacks, the virus hides in nerve roots. When herpes simplex lesions appear in their most common location, around the mouth and lips, people often refer to them as "cold sores" and "cold sores".
Causes
fever blister caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), a virus that spreads from person to person by direct contact with infected skin or secretions, including saliva. The sores usually appear as clusters of small blisters on the lip. HSV-1 can cause similar, but smaller blisters that rapidly become ulcers in the mouth on the gums and palate (palate).
A number of factors weaken the body's defenses and trigger an outbreak of herpes simplex. These factors include emotional stress, fever, illness, injury, and overexposure to the sun. Many women do not suffer relapses during certain phases of their menstrual cycle. A study indicates that susceptibility to herpes recurrences is inherited. Research is currently underway to discover exactly how "trigger" factors interact with the immune system and stimulate the reappearance of the virus of cold sores.
Most people infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 type have been infected before 10 years. The virus usually invades the moist membrane cells of the mouth, throat or mouth. In most people the initial infection causes no symptoms. About 15 percent of patients, however, develop many fluid-filled blisters inside and outside the mouth 3 to 5 days after they are infected. These may be accompanied by fever, swollen neck glands and general aches.
Symptoms
When you feel the tingling, burning or itching rubbing juice from the plant aloe on the affected area. Dab of aloe gel is effective too. Aloe will immediately commence the healing process and not allow the wound to develop.
The virus is highly contagious when sores are present. It is spread by kissing. Children are infected by contact with someone who has a blister fever and then transmit the virus by rubbing their cold sore and touching other children. A person suffering from cold sores should be careful not to touch the bulbs and spread the virus to new sites, such as eyes or genitals.
A primary herpes infection - the first time a person is infected - causes fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, swollen and painful sores on the gums open and inside the cheeks, and throat infection pain that is often confused with "strep throat" or another form of bacterial infection in the throat. These symptoms usually begin about one week after exposure to someone with HSV-1.
Treatment
There is currently no cure for cold sores recurring. A number of medications can relieve some pain and discomfort associated with lesions, however, including numbing ointments applied to the blisters, antibiotics that control secondary infections occurring all and ointments that soften the crusts of the sores .
