I, too, was aware that in 1978 about 900 members of the Peopleâs Temple living at Jonestown in Guyana took their own lives with a concoction of grape Flavor-Aid, Valium, Phenergan and cyanide.
Both cold sore and fever blister refer to the lip blisters caused by infections of the Herpes Simplex I virus (not to be confused with Herpes Simplex II, which is generally associated with genital herpes). Cold Sores are viral infections which cause recurrent groups of irritating, even painful blisters on the lips. The Herpes Simplex I virus affects more than half of the adult population, and over 50 million people in the US experience at least one cold sore outbreak per year.
But there are also types of blisters that may have been caused by a medical condition, including fever and cluster blisters, impetigo blisters, atopic eczema blisters, or blisters from chickenpox, shingles and dermatitis herpetiformis.Here, we will focus on the most common types of skin blisters: burn blister occurs when the first two layers of skin are damaged by a second-degree burn. A burn blister is much like a water blister (except that it will be obvious it was caused by a burn as it is extremely painful). Like water blisters, burn blisters are also filled with an important watery fluid called serum.