Cold Sores and Eczema Herpeticum Treatment
According to the World Health Organisation, around two-thirds of people globally have the cold sore virus (HSV-1), while according to the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 2015, around 15 million people in the UK suffer from eczema.
Inevitably, there is a great deal of confluence here, meaning that if you have one of the illnesses, there is a reasonable-to-strong chance you have the other. However, it is important for all sufferers of eczema who have not yet ever had a cold sore outbreak to be aware of a potential complication of the two conditions: eczema herpeticum.
Eczema herpeticum is a skin infection that develops when the HSV-1 virus infects a large area of skin (rather than just a very small area, as is usually the case with a cold sore outbreak). Those with an existing diagnosis of eczema are susceptible to the virus. As such, eczema sufferers should avoid all contact with a cold sore when they have any appearance of eczema symptoms – this is particularly true of children, who are at a higher risk of the condition.
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Cold Sores and Courtship
The early stages of a relationship can be exciting, but they can also be nerve-wracking. If you come down with a cold sore just before you're due to go on a big date, the nerves can quickly overwhelm the excitement, potentially leading you to cancel your engagement.
However, in many ways a cold sore at this stage is an ideal way to filter out those who are serious about you from those who are only looking for an Instagrammable encounter to share among their social networks.
Quite simply, a cold sore is so commonplace—around one in four suffers from recurrent outbreaks—and so inherently uninteresting that if your prospective romantic partner has a problem with it, you are likely better off with someone else. In fact, with up to eight in ten carrying the virus, there is a very strong chance that your date at least carries the virus themselves, but they may be one of the lucky individuals for whom the virus remains dormant and doesn't cause visible symptoms.
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What's for Breakfast?
We've all been there before. You wake up in the morning, you feel an unusual yet familiar sensation around your lips and go to the mirror and notice the discoloured print of the cold sore to come…
But what do you do? Do you return to bed, dive back under the covers and go into temporary hibernation? Do you put on the face of fury and go out to face the world in your least magnanimous of moods or do you reach for favourite cold sore treatment, philosophically remind yourself that things could be worse and get on with the rest of your day?
And, finally, if you are of the latter school of action, is there anything else you can do immediately to reduce the duration and severity of your cold sore's appearance?
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Who Knew that Bees are Mathematical Geniuses?
Anyone who has ever discovered the wonders of propolis will understand that bees are intelligent on a level that goes beyond mere human understanding.
Just think of the many medicinal benefits of propolis: whether it is as a protector of the hive, as a cold sore treatment or being used to fight viruses, cancers and other ailments, it is clear that the bees know something we are only just beginning to tap into.
But did you know that bees also make very capable mathematicians? If you have ever spent any time contemplating the geometric architecture of honeycomb, you may already have had intimations of this, but it has now been confirmed by science, with researches at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology concluding that bees are able to learn the fundamentals of arithmetic.
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Wedding Day Cold Sore Outbreaks
Few things are as panic-inducing as a pre-wedding day cold sore outbreak.
This is understandable, for most of us our wedding days are right up there in the pantheon of our life events – matched only perhaps by the birth of a child.
So what do we do if we are approaching our big day, getting ready for our first married kiss, and we feel that tell-tale tingle which lets us know that although we might have spent many months and thousands of pounds on planning our wedding, a cold sore is going to be an uninvited guest that lets itself in right at the centre of the action.
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