Island Drug Podcast

As a neighborhood pharmacist, I am frequently asked to recommend a product for "a cold sore in my mouth". People easily confuse cold sores and canker sores. Canker sores are small shallow lesions in the oral mucosa but unlike cold sores they do not occur on the lips and are not contagious. They can be oval or round with a white or yellow center in the middle of a red border. Please click here to download the accompanying text; http://islanddrug.com/podcasts/CankerSores.pdf