Effective Cold Sore Treatments

The red blisters occurring around the mouth and on the lips, especially during winter, are colloquially known as cold sores and fever blisters.

Being caused by the normally dormant Herpes Simplex virus, they can flare up at any time, but seem to do so especially during times of stress.The virus needs a weakened immunity system to erupt into the cold sores on your lips, and this happens when your body is run down from some cause or other.

The best protection against these types of outbreak, are to maintain a healthy balanced lifestyle, with the correct amount of balanced nutrients reaching our body. Unfortunately, modern lifestyle being what it is, this often gets neglected.

So the first effective cure for cold sores would be a restoration of missing minerals and vitamins.

Your body can only use the fuel that you provide it to protect you and fight intruders, so it comes as no big surprise, that your diet would play a part in the treatment of this, and nearly any ailment you may suffer from. Specifically, it was discovered that in the case of cold sores, the lysine to amino acid ratio is of primary importance. The Argentine amino acid is contributing factor to the growth of the herpes virus, and any imbalance there would lead to a cold sore outbreak. So by keeping it under control by consuming Lysine is another strategy of attack. The foods that would help with the production of Argentine should thus be reduced or omitted from your diet. Coffee, chocolate, nuts and whole grains should be reduced from  your diet. Take a calcium supplement, to replace the lower calcium intake due to the reduction in these foods. This will definitely give your body a leg up in its fight against the cold sores.

Examinations have concluded that people low in vitamin B12 are more susceptible to contract cold sores than other individuals. This ties in with the theory of stress, as this is the same vitamin that is used to combat stress situations. So by dosing up on vitamin B12 coupled with a multivitamin supplement, improvement should occur fairly rapidly. The best way to get vitamin B12 into your system, is to take a B vitamin supplement which also contains folic acid. A balanced vitamin intake will give your body help in other areas as well and should greatly reduce the normal 2-3 week duration of cold sores.

So, knowing that cold sores can be very uncomfortable, you can see that the treatment of cold sores is actually not that complicated. As usual, a bit of restraint and common sense can go a long way to alleviate your suffering.