When you were in high school, you probably gave and received some hickeys, they seem innocent enough, but there can be complications. Hickeys typically appear on the neck and chest and are a form of bruising caused by a person sucking or biting on the flesh. They look bad until they disappear a few days later, but that’s the least of your worries

Do you bruise easily? If hickeys show up super-easy on your skin and stay for a long time, it’s likely that you have an iron deficiency.

It’s true, if your partner has oral herpes, breaking the skin with their mouth could transmit the virus to you and now you have herpes.

There’s no cure for hickeys; no, a spoonful of honey or an ice cube won’t make them go away. You just have to hide them and wait for the inflammation to go down.

Hickeys Can Leave Scars