Cold Sores Around Mouth And Chin
These blisters are often grouped together in patches.
Cold sores around mouth and chin. They usually cause pain a. They have very different causes and treatment. They are tiny fluid filled blisters on and around your lips. Cold sores on your chin can be irritating and potentially embarrassing they can appear around your chin lips mouth or face.
A cold sore on the chin is usually caused by an outbreak that started at the mouth. Caused by the herpes simplex virus cold sores are highly contagious. Cold sores usually occur on the lips again don t confuse them with canker sores which are ulcers that develop on the inside of your mouth where cold sores don t occur and are not caused by hsv. Cold sores which occur on the lips and mouth look similar to pimples.
It s very rare to experience a flare up directly on the chin without it being spread from somewhere else. Herpes simplex type 1 hsv 1 typically causes cold sores. Cold sores usually heal in two to three weeks without leaving a scar. After the blisters break a scab forms that can last several days.
Occasionally cold sores and fever blisters can occur in or around the nostrils or on the chin or fingers. However it s also very easy for that spreading to occur.