The Best Cold Sore Remedies

To effectively attack the cold sores and fever blisters on your lips, you need a little knowledge about what feeds them and what starves them.

Here we present 3 simple things you can do right now, to eliminate your outbreak in just days instead of weeks.

So if you are feeling the imminent onslaught of sores, or are in the middle of an outbreak right now, try these three things.

1. Good Cold Sore Remedy Number One: As the Herpes virus causing the outbreak prefers an acidic environment, making yourself more alkaline will help. Things that cause you to be acidic are eating acid forming foods such as Tomatoes, Sugar, Vinegar SodaPop , Candy etc. Your body coping with stress, a cold or flu and an abnormal sun exposure will also promote acidity. So keep anything acidic away from the infected area, avoid acid forming foods and reduce stress and environmental factors, and you will cut your chances of a cold sore infection in half.

2. Good Cold Sore Remedy Number Two: The virus causing the cold sore, needs a particular amino acid containing Arginine to propagate. So reducing or eliminating this from your body will seriously curtail the activity of the virus and help with the cure. Lysine actively blocks the Arginine and so stops the further expansion of the virus. So eating food that promotes Lysine and avoiding food that adds Arginine is a logical way to inhibit the virus from further expansion, and even reduces it. So eat Lysine containing foods such as meat, milk, cheese, yogurt. Avoid Arginine promoting foods such as nuts, grains, seeds chocolate and coffee. Those dietary changes alone should stop your cold sores dead in their tracks.

3. Good Cold Sore Remedy Number Three: Knowing the effect of the environment on the virus is useful here.
Research has shown that the Herpes Virus causing your suffering, prefers a warm moist surroundings. So giving it just the opposite will curtail its activity as well. Make sure the area around your infection is kept dry and cool. Give it a little jolt by putting some ice on it for short bursts during the day.

Combining the above three activities, will make things very unappealing for the virus. It will die off and retract, allowing your body to heal the cold sores in the process. So try this triple whammy of the best cold sore remedy and get rid of your cold sores quickly.