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Oral Herpes Symptoms
Oral herpes symptoms of the infection caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) are painful sores on your lips, gums, tongue, and roof of your mouth and nearby locale. Oral herpes symptom could last for 2-3 weeks. Oral herpes symptom is usually associated with fever, muscle aches and pain and tiredness. During the illness, itching and burning pain could be felt and the intensity of the pain that comes with the oral herpes symptom makes it difficult to eat, chew and talk.
Oral herpes symptom can form reddish sores and filled with fluid that could erupt and the infection site is not advisable to be touched by the bare hands. After few days the sore becomes crusted or scabbed and will disappear without scarring the skin.
The virus can spread easily and infect others at this state. If you touch it with your bare hands and then touch the other parts of your body, the virus may spread and infect the other parts of the body.
The sores that occur on the lips, the gums, the front of the tongue, the inside of the mouth may also extend down the chin and neck. The red swollen gums may bleed at times. Neck lymph nodes often swell and become painful.
Oral herpes symptoms can be manifested as cold sore or lip herpes. Oral herpes or lip herpes is very common to more than sixty million Americans. Recurrences or further episodes commonly occur because once a person is infected; the virus remains latent for life. Oral herpes symptoms are caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 affects only the upper part of the body. If at any given circumstances that you have oral sex during infection, the virus will spread to the genital area causing genital herpes . At some point in the future, viruses lying dormant in your cells become activated and once again cause sores. These recurrent infections can be triggered in several conditions such as; weak immune systems, stress, illness, not having enough sleep, excessive exposure to sunlight, people with HIV, patient undergoing organ transplant and those patient undergoing cancer treatment.
Not all people infected with herpes simples virus type –1 will show oral herpes symptoms. Oral herpes symptoms could occur within 2-20 days after having contact with the infected person. Infected persons do not need visible blisters to spread the infection to others since the virus may be present in the saliva without obvious oral lesions. Symptoms of the primary infection are usually more severe than those of recurrent episodes.
There is no cure for oral herpes infections however, there are antiviral drugs available lessens the duration of the herpes outbreak and relieve its symptoms. These antiviral drugs may interfere with the replication and reproduction of the viruses but works effectively when taken at the early stage of symptoms. The only way to prevent lip herpes is not to kiss the infected persons. If you notice early signs of oral herpes symptoms, check with your doctor as soon as possible.
