Frustrated! 2 Year old daughter with regular large cold sores! - Herpes Message Board

jukaam · 11-03-2008, 02:20 PM

Well my daughter who is now 2 gets the biggest cold sore on her face (yes face not lips). She has gotten them since the first time she got the flu. From what I know about herpes, if her immune system is down then she gets one. It's in the same place everytime and of course I am very worried that it is going to eventually leave a scar. Tiss the season for the flu and she's on her 2nd one in 4 weeks. Needless to say, she wasn't totally healed from the first one. The cold sore gets to be the size of a quarter and is very very thick. I have finally have a perscription that I'm suppose to give her 4 times a day, as soon as you see the first signs of it. Does anyone else out there have the same situation with a toddler? What specialists are out there?

kilgore52 · 11-05-2008, 08:50 PM

Not a toddler but I know several people with large ones on their face. Do you have herpes type 2?

jukaam · 11-11-2008, 01:51 PM

No, my husband gets cold sores. My doctor hasn't talked about that, just that the medication should help. What is the name of a specialist can I see?