Can I Get A Cold Sore Inside My Mouth?
People rarely get the Herpes Simplex 1 virus inside their mouth. It usually attacks the outside mouth region like the lips or the nose and chin area. However, there have been occassions that cold sores have developed inside your mouth. More likely though, if you have a sore inside your lip you have either bitten your lip and it is now infected or you have a canker sore.
Canker sores aren’t contagious. Science doesn’t have an answer as to why we get sores inside our mouth like canker sores.
If you have a canker sore they can sting and make your whole mouth feel swollen. Here are some things you can try to treat the sore inside your lip:
Don’t eat any acidic or spicy food. Once that type of food hits the open, white wound of your canker sore you are going to jump up in pain! It will sting terribly so don’t eat oranges, pineapple, barbeque sauces or lemonade, etc. until the sore inside your lip has gone away.
It usually takes about 7-12 days for them to completely disappear.
Biting your cheek with your teeth or cutting it with a sharp piece of food like a tortilla chip can cause a canker sore to appear. Try not to bite the inside of your cheeks if you have a habit of doing that when you are nervous. The abrasion is enough to bring on a canker sore.
Fatigue, stress and allergies all have a tendency to cause you to get canker sores. It’s difficult to never be stressed, tired or allergic to something but if you pay attention to your body and you are prone to getting sores on the inside of your lip you will be able to tell why you are getting them. If they erupt when you have been working hard and not sleeping well you will know that if you want to stop getting canker sores you will need to rest more often!
