You just noticed a painful red bump on your lip. Is it a cold sore or a pimple ... forehead, neck, back, upper arms or chest, per the Cleveland Clinic. There are some tips that can clue you ...

Cold sores, or fever blisters, are precisely herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) that appear as fluid-filled blisters around the lips that can also develop on the chin, cheeks or inside the nostrils.

plus no greasy mess on my lip. ANSWER: The first antiviral drug developed for herpes simplex infections was Zovirax ...

Threats to your lips come from everywhere: sunburn, windburn, cold and dry air, bacteria, cold sores, you name it. (It's a rough world out there for your kisser.) For all these reasons ...

"Both lip pimples and cold sores can pop up on the border of the lips, and a lip pimple can be mistaken for a cold sore," says Ko. However, cold sores, also known as oral herpes, are caused by the ...

In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader with a question about using ivermectin to treat scabies.