Scabbed over cold sore, can I still donate tomorrow?
New-ish doner here! Google is.. completely unhelpful for this one, so here I am 😅
Last Friday, I started to develop a cold sore on my upper lip, I didn't use abreva or any other thing for cold sores, I just left it alone and tried to keep it dry. A few days ago the scab fell off, and its now scabbed over again (first one was yellowish, now its just dark red, like a scab from a cut would be). What I could find said that, as long as it isn't bleeding or oozing puss its fine, but that was just an AI overview, and those are often wrong (im pretty sure it was getting its info off of a blood donation q&a too?) so I figured i'd just ask here. I donate at CSL if its important