- Mainly appear as herpes labialis & recurrent intraoral herpes
- Appearance-it occurs as characteristic lip lesion containg vesicles on an erythematous base that heals with in 7-10 days
- Site-RHL are small,shallow,irregular & errosive like lesion that may coalesce and seen to occur only on keratinized epithelium like that of gingiva, hard palate or dorsal surface of tongue.
- Diagnosis-it is made by isolation of virus from ulcer
- Treatment-antiviral drugs & symptomatic systemic Acyclovir 30 mg/kg/day.Acylovir resistance foscarnet
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Recurrent Herpes Labialis
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