Cold Sore | Facts

Facts


Cold sores may indicate a deficiency in calcium.

Cold sores are common around the time of monthly periods.

Cold sores are a symptom that your immune system is down which can happen due to stress, lack of rest, sickness or eating too much sugar.

Cold sores can affect anyone who has had a prior herpes infection (up to a third of children have by the time they grow up).

A significant number of medical institutions place the incidence of oral herpes (HSV-1), commonly called cold sores, between 50 and 80 percent among the American population in the fifth decade of life.

You don’t develop cold sores when you’re first infected, and only about a third of all people who catch the cold sore virus will ever develop sores.

1 in 5 Americans experience cold sores, typically between one and three outbreaks a year.

If your cold sores are particularly severe, or you have a damaged immune system (which can be caused by factors such as undergoing chemotherapy, or having HIV), you may be at risk of further complications, including encephalitis (swelling of the brain) or a spread of your infection to other parts of your body, such as your eyes.

Around 90 per cent of adults have herpes simplex antibodies in their bloodstream.