Cold Sore First Aid Care For Your Worst Cold Sores
submitted: Jun 16th 2008 |
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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.
Are you suffering from a cold sore, fever blister or oral herpes? Then you want help, not hype. You want effective methods to stop the pain and quickly heal your cold sore.
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.
- SPREADING COLD SORE VIRUS TO THE EYE
The longer the herpes simplex virus is active on your face, the bigger the risk of getting the virus in your eye. This usually causes vision 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 top first aid techniques you can use for your cold sores. These will reduce the discomfort and shorten the time of healing so you can get back to enjoying life.
1. FIRST AID METHOD FOR REDUCING COLD SORE PAIN
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
The more herpes simplex virus you wipe away from the sore, the less chance of spreading the virus to other areas. And, you will lower the population of virus hiding in your nerve cells when the wound is finally healed.
Keep cleansing the cold sore area of excess virus using throw-away tissues or cotton balls soaked in alcohol or peroxide. Many folks use handy alcohol swab packets from the drug store for convenience.
3. FIRST AID TACTICS FOR HEALING THE COLD SORE
Healing a cold sore quickly means speeding the growth of new skin to mend the wound. There are a couple topical treatments that will do this.
Aloe Vera is incredible for knitting skin over an open wound. It would be wise to have an Aloe Vera plant in your home. It does a great job only if you use fresh leaf sap from a live plant. Bottled gel is dead and does not work well.
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.
When the cold sore crusts over, it is quite painful when it cracks. Keep the crust soft by applying a vegetable oil such as olive oil. Vitamin E oil works very well for this also.
In conclusion, the best first aid is not to get a cold sore in the first place. There are ways to prevent cold sores that will work for you. Maybe the vitamin therapy is all you personally need.
Because you are unique, you may have to do some homework and experiment with a few remedies. If you do, you will be amazed how quickly you will find lifetime freedom from cold sores.
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