Cold Sores - Effective First Aid For Your Cold Sore
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Cold sores and oral herpes should disappear when you use these proven techniques. Read this short article now. In it you will find top first aid tips for getting rid of any oral herpes cold sore.
If you are a cold sore, fever blister or oral herpes sufferer, you need help, not hype. You need effective ways of stopping the discomfort and getting rid of your cold sores.
Embarrassment and pain are the two obvious reasons to heal a cold sore as fast as possible. But here are a couple more reasons most folks do not think about.
- THREAT OF INFECTING AND DAMAGING THE CORNEA
The herpes simplex virus is very contagious. When you have an active cold sore on your face, there is a strong risk of getting it in your eye by accident. This often causes eye damage.
- MAY BE A LINK TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Researchers have uncovered some proteins in Alzheimer’s are the same as found in cold sore activity. The investigation continues but it is certainly another good reason to heal them quickly.
Here are some great first aid options for your cold sore. These are safe and medically sound methods to shorten duration and reduce the risk of new herpes events.
1. FIRST AID FOR COLD SORE PAIN RELIEF
A few drug store cold sore treatments contain ingredients that will numb the cold sore. Benzocaine and lidocaine are common for this. They do help with comfort, but they do not help to heal the sore faster.
Ice is the best remedy for reducing swelling and pain. Frozen, wet tea bags work very well and provide some anti-viral activity. Fever, headaches and swollen glands can be helped with aspirin or ibuprofen.
2. FIRST AID FOR SANITIZING COLD SORES
Reducing the quantity of herpes simplex virus is very important for successful treatment of your cold sore. It is the best thing you can do to prevent spreading the virus to other parts of your body.
You can do this by constantly cleaning the sore with alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. Always use a cotton ball or tissue and throw it away when you are done. You can get handy foil wrapped alcohol pads at the store.
3. FIRST AID FOR CLOSING THE COLD SORE WOUND FAST
There are topical treatments that will greatly speed new skin growth over the cold sore.
Aloe Vera is an amazing healer of wounds. Use only the gel from a live plant leaf. Aloe Vera is easy to grow and a true first aid plant. Do not waste your money on bottled Aloe Vera for healing a sore. You will be disappointed.
You do not have an Aloe Vera plant available? Then use the following combination of cold sore remedies.
Warm up a tea bag in water and apply to the cold sore for 10 - 15 minutes at a time. Between tea bag usage, apply zinc sulfate or gluconate. Zicam is an excellent zinc gel for this purpose.
4. BONUS FIRST AID RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COLD SORES
It would be wise to take a daily dose of the best quality vitamins you can afford. Your cold sores will heal much faster and occur less frequently than ever before. And you will feel much healthier every day.
Once the cold sore opens up and starts draining, you should not use ice. The sore is now in the healing mode. Ice will relieve the pain, but slow down healing. Use heat to hurry-up the healing at this point. You can continue to use those numbing remedies.
Keeping the scab soft and pliable is an important first aid measure. It will prevent painful cracking of the scab. This prevents constant need for re-healing of the crust. Olive oil (extra virgin) works great.
Finally, look around and find a cold sore treatment program that will actually prevent future cold sores for you. Preventing a cold sore used to be quite difficult but now is very easy.
Do not give up. A cold sore remedy that works for someone else may not work for you. Get to know the enemy. Try different things. Discover cold sore causing situations and foods in your life. Very soon you could be totally free from cold sores.
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