Cold Sores, Fever Blisters or Oral Herpes are three names for the same thing. They commonly appear on the border of the lip or nose but can form anywhere on your body where the herpes simplex virus can get through the skin.
The herpes simplex virus is the root cause of all cold sores (fever blisters, oral herpes). The herpes virus creates the sores as a side effect of creating new virus particles. But, the herpes virus cannot create its own offspring. It needs the nerve cells to do so and so it claims a nerve fiber near the entry area and resides in that fiber for life. When the virus enters a cell, it takes control and forces it to produce new virus clones.
You will notice swelling of the target area as the cells fill up. Once the cells reach maximum capacity, the controlling virus destroys the victim cells and the new viruses spill out. It is aggressively contagious and can enter the body through even the tiniest crack in the skin. You are contagious from the first sign until the final healing redness disappears. Getting a cold sore in your eye can cause serious vision damage.
Treatment:
Some of the most proven cold sore treatment remedies are lysine, zinc and garlic. These can and should be used both internally (supplements) and as topical treatments. Continual cleansing of the area with alcohol or peroxide is very important too.
In this age of recession and shrinking world economies, governments, in a bid to increase aggregate demand (AD), may lower interest rates to encourage spending. This is because a lower interest rate makes spending relatively more attractive to consumers and businesses than saving in banks. When a government continues to lower interest rates repeatedly and they reach a level of 0% without correlated increase in AD, then it is called a liquidity trap.
Two prominent examples of liquidity trap in history are the Great Depression in the United States during the 1930s and the long economic slump in Japan during the late 1990s.
