Don Wiss wrote:

> But how do you know you have cold sores and not canker sores? As I pointed
> out many people, including doctors, get confused between these.

Having had experience with both, for me at least, canker sores are inside the
mouth
on the cheek lining or gum; they are quite sore and feel round. (Yes I do have
gluten
intolerance). I have never found anything that helped.  They go away in about a
week.

Cold sores are usually on the corners of the lip, oozy, yellow crust.  Rather
than being
round, they are shaped more like an erosion.  For me, they're almost always a
response
to eating salted corn chips (which I almost never eat any more).  Lysine always
helps;
they're healing by the next day.

I'm surprised to find out that canker sores are related to gluten intolerance.
Somehow
I thought everybody got them.

    Lynnet