Your Best Remedies For Cold Sores - End Cold Sore Misery
How about some excellent remedies for cold sores? If you will let me, I would like to share with you some of the best remedies for cold sores I have ever seen.
Remedies for cold sores are available from many companies. These over-the-counter treatments usually provide quick comfort for painful sores. But they seldom shorten the duration of your cold sore.
But, there are remedies for cold sores that will shorten the cold sore duration AND provide blessed relief. Many of these are cheap or free and often found in your cupboard.
Try one or two of these home remedies for your cold sores. They nearly always work better than the commercial products and the virus will not develop immunity to them.
Below you will find some of the best remedies for cold sores now in use worldwide. And don’t hesitate to combine several, as they will usually work better that way.
vitamins. Every person, whether you are a cold sore victim or not, should be taking a good quality vitamin and mineral supplement every day.
Within the multi-vitamin and mineral package there are a few nutrients that are especially important for cold sore relief.
Calcium helps maintain the healthy alkalinity of your body. Fact is, if you do not provide it, your body will steal it from your bones.
If and when your body slips into an acid state, your oxygen levels drop and cold sore outbreaks will occur.
B vitamins are the anti-stress vitamins. stress is the main trigger for your cold sore event. Studies show Deficiencies in B12 and the other B vitamins in people with an active cold sore.
Zinc is your ally in getting rid of a cold sore fast. Your vitamin supplement should contain a minimum of 15 milligrams. If not, change brands.
Vitamin C is a strong anti-virus and boosts the good effects of all the other vitamins. Your supplement should provide a minimum of 500 milligrams per day.
BLACK OR herbal TEA. Tea contains some remarkable healing and anti-virus properties. You will benefit by drinking and putting it on the sore.
You should apply a frozen tea bag to any cold sore that is forming but not broken open yet.
Let a couple bags soak until thoroughly wet, then put in the freezer. Holding directly on the cold sore area provides instant relief and will slow or stop virus activity.
Once your sore has broken open, do not use a frozen tea bag. Use a hot one instead. You are now in the healing phase and the heat will speed the process.
Caution - do not use the microwave to heat up a tea bag. It greatly reduces the healing benefits. Heat the water first, then immerse the bag. Or you can use the stove-top.
AMAZING TEA TREE OIL. This light oil comes from Australia. It is an extract from the bark of a tree. It smells and tastes very much like turpentine.
Tea tree oil is one of the most useful remedies for cold sores. It actually penetrates the skin so you can begin applying it at the first sign of a cold sore.
Once your cold sore blossoms, this oil will help keep the area sterile and prevent virus spreading. When it scabs over, keep applying it. It will aid in keeping the scab from painful cracking.
HONEY. One of the little known and appreciated remedies for cold sores, honey can be of great help to the cold sore victim. No germ or fungus can survive in honey. Honey found in the pyramids was still safe to eat. It does not spoil.
Our ancestors used honey as a dressing on all types of wounds for stopping infections and quick healing. It smells and tastes way better than tea tree oil. Apply from first tingle through final healing of your cold sore.
The remedies for cold sores mentioned above are very powerful. There are others I would love to reveal to you but they are too numerous to mention here.
You have seen that treating your oral herpes cold sore can be quite easy and cheap. Once you try them, you will discover these methods are very powerful home remedies for cold sores.