Cold Sore Symptoms

Cold sore symptoms include:
Small, painful, fluid-filled blisters on a raised, red area of your skin, typically around the mouth
Pain or tingling, called the prodrome, often precedes the blisters by one to two days
Usual duration of seven to 10 days
Cold sores most commonly appear on your lips. Occasionally, they occur on your nostrils, chin or fingers. And, although it's unusual, they may occur inside your mouth — more often on your gums or hard palate, which is the roof of your mouth. Sores appearing on other soft tissues inside your mouth, such as the inside of the cheek or the undersurface of the tongue, may be canker sores but aren't usually cold sores.
Signs and symptoms may not start for as long as 20 days after exposure to the herpes simplex virus, and usually last seven to 10 days. The blisters form, break and ooze. Then a yellow crust forms and finally sloughs off to uncover pinkish skin that heals without a scar. The herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores cannot be cured. After you get infected, the virus stays in your body for the rest of your life. If you get cold sores often, treatment can reduce the number of cold sores you get and how severe they are. Treat them with Sore Cold. Face it, even celebrities get cold sores, treat it right with Sore Cold.