Total Cold Sore Cures

Since so many people seem to be afflicted by this infection, a lot of hype and untruths have been spread about it as well.

The cold sore is a viral infection, caused by the herpes simplex HPV-1 virus. This is similar but not the same as the virus causing genital herpes.

A virus will attack and thrive under the right conditions only.  Avoiding these conditions will keep the virus dormant and prevent a flare up

Here is the total cold sore cure.

Cold sore cure # 1: Call a friend that makes you laugh. Don't believe me? It has been shown that stress is a major contributing factor to viral propagation, due to body hormonal imbalances. So do something that will make you happy and relaxed. If nothing else, you won't even care about your cold sores anymore.

Cold sore cure # 2: Eat a healthy balanced diet, to keep your immune system in peak condition. Avoid nuts, chocolates refined sugar foods (candy, cookies, cakes) and acidic or acid forming foods. These will promote the Arginine available to the virus. Take some lycine pills instead, and eat things like pro biotic yogurt.

Cold sore cure # 3: Exercise and keep in shape. A healthy and fit body is often more balanced with hormones, antibodies thrive and all round it will fight intruders more effectively. It also has the added benefit of reducing stress.

Cold sore cure # 4: Keep out of harsh climatic conditions. This means don't go hiking in a blizzard, as well as getting a sunburn. These conditions weaken the resilience of your skin, enabling the virus to get an easier foothold and cause the infection. Also applying sun block and the like removes normal skin ingredients.

Cold sore cure # 5: Cool it. Put ice directly on the cold sore area, to cool it down. This not only desensitizes the area, making it less uncomfortable, but it also slows down the virus.

Cold sore cure # 6: Keep it clean and dry. Wash the area with soap and water, to prevent re infecting and cross infecting yourself and others. Then apply a drying solution. Over the counter acne creams work, as does toothpaste. Use the menthol toothpaste, you will smell better and the menthols will soothe the discomfort.

Cold sore cure # 7: Kick it in the mouth early and often. Apply the above as soon as you feel the tingly burny sensation that appears before a full blown cold sore attack. Start the above program immediately. Then as often as you can follow the steps. If you catch it early enough and follow through, you will have at the most a few days of discomfort.

So the total cold sore cure, whilst actually very simple, is very logical and works.