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Daily Mail
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bec Judd makes startling health confession as she aims to be 'completely transparent' on her Vain-ish podcast
Rebecca Judd has opened up about her struggle with cold sores. The AFL WAG, 42, took to Instagram on Monday to share a snap of a fever blister on her lower lip, candidly revealing that she's only had them three times in her life. Cold sores are contagious, fluid-filled blisters that usually form on or around the lips and are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1). In the caption of the post, Bec revealed her battle with the incurable condition, while also sharing the unlikely person she got them from. 'I've only ever had x3 cold sores in my life,' she began. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. '1. My first at 36yrs old. '2. The day this photo was taken when I had to shoot a LIPSTICK campaign for @theskincarecompany. '3. The day I recorded this @vainishpodcast episode where I tell the story about how my Mum gave me cold sore number 1,' she wrote. 'I'm still furious,' she added. In the third episode of Bec's recently released Vain-ish podcast, she revealed that she contracted cold sores from her mum, who had one on her lip in Whistler while she and her family were skiing. Despite Bec's mum assuring her she'd 'never given it to anyone', the Jaggad founder woke up the next day with a blister on her lip. Bec also admitted in the episode that her cold sores are triggered by long periods in the sun. The mum-of-four recently told Stellar magazine that she wants to be 'completely transparent' as she discusses beauty in her new podcast alongside best friend Jess Roberts. 'I'm 42, and I don't have a line on my face,' she confessed. 'I'm telling you it's not because I get eight hours' sleep a night, all right?' She went on to say that 2025 is the year we 'stop gaslighting' women by lying about the procedures we've had done. 'You get to a certain age where it's like, come on, let's be a bit more honest. This is the year where we stop bullsh***ing everyone and we fess up,' she added. Rebecca said 'everyone should be a little honest and have better conversations around beauty, aesthetics and wellness.'
Health Line
21-07-2025
- Health
- Health Line
Cold Sores
Cold sores are fluid-filled blisters that typically form on or near your lips. They usually clear up on their own within 10 days. Antiviral creams and medications can speed healing and relieve symptoms. A cold sore, sometimes referred to as a fever blister, typically starts with a tingling, itchy, or stinging feeling on or near your lips and mouth. Over the next 48 hours, one or more fluid-filled blisters will appear. Cold sores are contagious from the moment you first feel tingling to when they have completely healed. During this time, they can easily spread to other parts of your body and to other people through contact. To help keep cold sores from spreading: wash your hands with warm water and soap after touching your cold sore don't kiss anyone when you have a cold sore (especially babies) don't engage in oral sex until your cold sore is completely healed, as you can give your partner genital herpes Keep reading to learn more about cold sores, including their symptoms, appearance, causes, treatment, and prevention. What's the difference between a cold sore and a canker sore? Cold sores and canker sores both cause pain and discomfort, but that's where their similarities end. Canker sores are ulcers that form on the inside of the mouth, tongue, throat, and cheeks. They're usually flat lesions. They're not contagious and are not caused by the herpes simplex virus. Cold sores usually occur on the lips and outside the mouth. They're highly contagious. Cold sores are raised and have a 'bubbly' appearance.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Effort to make ‘intentional exposure' to STDs a crime in Louisiana fails
Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, at the Louisiana State Capitol on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (John Gray/Verite News) A Louisiana House committee shelved a bill Wednesday that would have made it illegal for someone to 'intentionally' expose another person to an 'incurable' sexually transmitted disease after steep concerns that criminalization could worsen the state's proliferating STD rates. This was the second time Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, had introduced such a bill in five years, despite opposition from public and sexual health advocates as well as people living with STDs. Moore said at a House Administration of Criminal Justice committee meeting that she wants to create a law that offers people recourse for when someone 'knowingly and intentionally' doesn't disclose their STD status. The bill would have created a new felony, carrying up to 10 years in prison and $5,000 in fines, for someone who knows they have an 'incurable' STD and exposes someone else without their knowledge and consent. Those penalties would have increased if the person exposed to the STD is a minor, over 65 years old or has an intellectual disability. The exposure under either charge would have needed to come through sexual contact, donating bodily fluids such as blood or sharing needles. After pushback during public testimony, Moore voluntarily deferred House Bill 76. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX In 2023, Louisiana had the highest rate of chlamydia cases in the country and ranked in the top 10 for syphilis, HIV and gonorrhea, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The legislation comes as other states have repealed or modernized their own laws criminalizing STDs, especially HIV, over the past decade to align with the current medical landscape. An attempt to update Louisiana's own law criminalizing HIV failed last year. Before the bill was deferred, Moore amended it to just focus on 'incurable' STDs, removing a proposal to create a new misdemeanor charge for exposing someone to a curable STD. The four most common incurable sexually transmitted infections are hepatitis B, herpes simplex virus (HSV), human papillomavirus (HPV) and HIV. While no treatments exist to eliminate these viruses, all are treatable and manageable with medication, and HPV can sometimes clear up on its own. But the groups who opposed the bill, including several members of the Louisiana Coalition Against Criminalization and Health, said the bill would have the same problems as another state law on the books that criminalizes 'intentional exposure' to HIV. In the Deep South, health care fights echo civil rights battles Data on how many people have been charged under the law is challenging to compile, but UCLA's Williams Institute identified 147 allegations of HIV-related crimes between 2011 and 2022 in Louisiana, though researchers said that number could be higher. Dietz, the coalition's state coordinator, told the committee that said both the current law and bill contain 'legal loopholes' that allow the law to be used against people living with HIV in their personal relationships, in part because it's on the person living with the STD to prove they received the accuser's consent. In 2024, Dietz and other members of a state task force charged with researching the criminalization of HIV found that Louisiana's current legal approach 'can actually interfere with work to end the HIV epidemic,' according to its report. 'We've already made recommendations for the way the existing law allows for environments of coercion because again … proving that you disclosed your status is challenging,' Dietz said. 'Even if you were to have proof in your hand, even if someone were to write it down, what if someone ripped it up? Or you lost it?' St. Tammany Parish resident Katie Darling, who also serves as the vice chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party, shared the testimony of one of her residents who said she had been living with HIV for 25 years. Darling said the resident had her first husband sign an affidavit acknowledging that he knew she had HIV and consented, even though she was taking medication that prevented transmission. When the marriage turned physically abusive, the resident testified that her former husband threatened to take her to court over her HIV status. 'Thankfully, I had the document he signed on file at my doctor's office. But what if I hadn't?' Darling read from the testimony. The St. Tammany resident has now had her second husband sign a similar affidavit. Those who opposed the bill also acknowledged that there is a need for people to have justice when they are unknowingly given an STD, whether that's under new legislation or current laws around sexual assault. Jennifer Tokarski, who is living with HPV, testified in support of the bill. She shared the story of her former husband who had sex outside of their marriage, refused to admit it and ultimately transmitted the virus to her. 'After five years in what I believed was a faithful relationship and Catholic marriage, I became severely ill,' Tokarski testified. 'My husband attended appointments, rejected STD testing, reassuring doctors we were monogamous.' When she learned of his infidelity, she said he battered her and filed for divorce. 'Only then did I learn he had infected me with a lifelong and incurable STD,' Tokarski said. 'This is not just a private betrayal, this is a public health failure.' Moore and Tokarski said they believed such a law would help promote honest conversations about sexual health that would lower the spread and give survivors a voice. Studies have shown that criminalizing STDs do little to lower the number of cases and increase stigma. During testimony, public health advocates said Louisiana should invest more heavily in resources for testing and treatment as well as sexual health education, which isn't required in schools. At Wednesday's meeting, Moore said she planned to work with the bill's opponents to improve the language and possibly return the legislation to the committee if there's time before the session. Otherwise, Moore said she will bring a form of the legislation back next year. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE This article first appeared on Verite News New Orleans and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
