How easily can a cold sore transfer?

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Can someone please help put my mind at ease, i have OCD and for some reason I have a huge fear of cold sores. I wanted to know how easily a cold sore could be transfered?       

This is how my crazy mind thinks: at school a slutty girl or someone with pimples near there mouth or even have a cold sore have cold sores in my mind, if these people touch something then I touch it I freak out and hav 2 go wash my hands.

Examples: someone with one passes a paper to me, have 2 wash my hands. Someone with one touches a desk top then I do, o freak. If someone with one touches me I freakout. Someone with one touches an object then I do I have to wash my hands. So when those things happen I am freaking out cause I think I might get one cause I might touch my mouth or touch something of mine like a pen and then touch it later then touch my face and get one.           Is that crazy?  I think so 

So if someone could knowladge me one this and help ease my mind please do.

Thanks so much for your time!!!!!

AileneWright · Accepted Answer

Cold sores are caused by an opportunistic virus.  In order to contract a virus, you must have the specific receptor for it.  In addition, unless exposure occurs while your immune system is compromised due to stress, cold sores will not manifest.  That is why women who are prone to having cold sores will often have them at the end of their "cycles."  Emotional stress as well as physical stress, such as sunburn or eating foods with a high acid content like fresh tomatoes can trigger cold sores upon exposure.  But if you have never had one, you may not have the receptor and therefore will never have one.

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Anonymous · Answer

"chilly sores or HSV-a million, the Herpes Simplex Virus sort a million, could additionally reason genital herpes. HSV-a million an infection of the genitals may be led to by employing oral-genital or genital-genital touch with a guy or woman who has HSV-a million an infection. So having oral intercourse with a guy or woman who has a chilly sore might reason genital herpes, having had touch with the chilly sore. undergo in ideas, whether a chilly sore isn't recent, there ought to be asymptomatic laying off or transmission. Genital HSV-a million outbreaks recur much less generally than genital HSV-2 outbreaks."

Sparkles · Answer

you have to have direct contact from their mouth to either your mouth or genitals. 

herpes is not transmitted the way you described.

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