Not only can bed sores be painful for those who develop them, but they can also result in more serious problems like infections and wounds that won’t heal. Bed sores, or pressure ulcers, are wounds ...

Rather than attacking the virus directly, it blocks the virus from reaching healthy cells, thus slowing the spread, reducing the severity of the cold sore outbreak and shortening healing time.

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer that causes difficult-to-heal sores, but squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma may show up this way, too. The likelihood of a cancer like ...