Ouch. You part your lips ever so slightly and you’re suddenly reminded of the painful sore in the corner of your mouth. The ...

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In a recent video, Dr Blake Livingood, a doctor of natural medicine and TikTok sensation with more than 178K followers, explained: "For anything around the mouth, cold sores or ulcers or canker ...

Unlike cold sores, which are caused by a type of herpes ... Symptoms of angular cheilitis will almost exclusively appear at the corners of the mouth. The symptoms can be painful and can vary ...

So, what exactly are cold sores? According to Dr Kakai Kulabusia, a medical immunology specialist, these are small blister-like spots that appear in or around the outside of the mouth and are ...

And in those miserable, wintry days of the pandemic, I was thankful that I could hide my mouth behind a face mask. I am not alone in feeling there is a stigma around cold sores, despite the fact ...