Cold Sores Home Remedies - A 4 Step 24 Hour Cure Cold sores are the external symptoms of an active oral herpes outbreak (aka "herpes labialis") that appear most typically on the lip and/or around the mouth--they are very rarely found in the mouth, and if this is the emory it's much more likely that you've got something known as a canker sore which is caused by a bacteria and completely unrelated to cold sores and the herpes simplex virus. Herpes is transmitted from one person to another through contact with open sores or bodily fluids--the most com way that people get oral herpes is by being kissed by a close relative when they are a small child who has an active outbreak or, possibly, is experiencing something called asymptomatic viral shedding (this is where you're still shedding the virus and are contagious despite the fact that you don't have any visible symptoms such as sores or lesions on the skin).

There is no cure for herpes, and once you got it you've got it for life--the herpes virus spends the majority of its time in what's called the "remission phase" where it remains dormant in the sensory nerve cells of your face near the site of initial infection, sometimes for years at a time between active outbreaks--just because.