Cold Sores: Killer Home Cures
Cold Sores are a failrly abundant ailmnet also known as oral herpes, as they are caused by the herpes simplex
virus HSV-1. Clusters of fluid filled blisters occuring around the mouth, lips and nose indicate the illness.
Many sufferers have used all types of expensive prescription drugs, but there seems to be a consensus that
some home remedies are extremeny effective.
The herpes virus causing the cold sores, thrives in wet warm conditions, so changing those conditions severely
curtails the propagation.
Killer Cold Sore Home Cure Tip no 1: Try and dry out the blisters. Generally popping them
to drain the liquid is not advised, but the external application of a drying agent seems to work well in a lot of
cases. Users have reported using sulphur powder, nail polish remover, toothpaste and alcohol (the surgical
type) to work on their afflictions. All the above makes sense. Sulphur powder is used in some acne medications to
dry out the acne condition, nail polish remover contains chemicals that dry quickly and so dry out the skin of
the cold sore as well, toothpaste left to dry will try to absorb moisture to remain wet (the paste - not the gel
type) So these seem to be solid options.
Killer Cold Sore Home Cure Tip no 2: Cool down the area affected. People do this by gently
rubbing ice cubes on the blisters, cooling down the whole area and so making the environment less than
ideal for the virus to spread and grow.
Killer Cold Sore Home Cure Tip no 3: Combining Cold and dry works best. This is where
things that dry very rapidly come in. You will have noticed that if you pour some substances onto your finger
that evaporate quickly, your finger gets cold. Surgical alcohol does this, as does the previously mentioned
nailpolish remover. So you are killing two birds with one stone by starting to clean with a cotton swab laced
with fast evaporating surgical alcohol, before applying toothpaste or another drying agent.
Killer Cold Sore Home Cure Tip no 4: Repetition is king: By doing a pattern of cleaning
with alcohol, applying ice till the area is completely cold and then dabbing on a drying paste, and repeating
over and over, you will achieve amazing results.
So with your next attack of Cold Sores, don't panic, fight back.
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