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Cold Sore Mouth Herpes
Can genital herpes spread to a persons mouth who alreayd gets cold sores?
If you already get a cold sore from time to time on the lip can you catch genital herpes around your mouth if you go down on someone who has it?
It is unlikely.
Firstly, having one of the herpes simplex viruses lowers your chances of getting the other - so if you have hsv-1 on your mouth you are less likely to get hsv-2 genitally, and if you do get it are more likely to get an asymptomatic infection.
In lab tests, it proved very difficult to infect the same nerve ganglion with a second variety of herpes - hsv-2 on top of hsv-1 for example. In other words, you would be very unlikely to get hsv-2 on your mouth if you had hsv-1.
And finally, if you did catch it on your mouth, you would most likely not notice any increase in symptoms. Once on the mouth, genital herpes is simply oral herpes. Oral hsv-2 is the weakest herpes infection you can get, it isn't really keen on being there. You are unlikely to ever get an outbreak of oral hsv-2 even if you do catch it. And if you did, it would just be a cold sore exactly like the ones you already have.
And like cold sores, you are much less likely to get it when your partner doesn't have symptoms.
