Heal Cold Sores - Enjoy Quick Relief From Your Cold Sore
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If you must quickly heal cold sores, then this article was written just for you. Let me show you powerful, tested ways to heal cold sores.
For you to heal cold sores most effectively, you will need to use at least one of these two ways. Use them together and heal cold sores even faster.
Your body can and will heal cold sores on its own. But it is a slow process. It often takes three to four weeks - or more. You do not have to tolerate the discomfort of a cold sore that long with what we know today.
If you want to heal cold sores as quickly as possible, it is important to understand the underlying cause of the outbreak. Perhaps you know, but let us touch on it briefly for those that do not.
The cold sore virus is the herpes simplex virus - either type 1 or type 2. This microscopic virus drills into a cell and forces the cell to create virus clones. Once full, the new virus is released by destruction of the host cell.
At the beginning, you will notice a lot of swelling as the cells fill up with virus particles. The cells then burst open - causing another ugly sore. The herpes virus only causes these sores on the surface of your skin.
Following are the two methods you must choose from - if you want to quickly heal cold sores.
1. HEAL COLD SORES BY USING THE INTERNAL TREATMENT APPROACH.
Your first step, if you experience several cold sore breakouts each year, is to take a good multi-vitamin daily.
Believe it - this is a very powerful and effective cold sore remedy. The virus cannot get any traction when your immune system is strong and is not weakened by daily stress.
In addition to a daily multi-vitamin regimen, taking lysine supplements during an outbreak will stop, or slow down, the virus replication process.
Lysine capsules are cheap and convenient. High lysine foods, such as dairy and fish, will help also. During an outbreak, 2000 milligrams to 4000 milligrams per day is common. 4 ounces of flounder contains 3000 milligrams.
It is simple. To heal cold sores fast, you must stop the virus from reproducing and send it back to the latent state.
If you suffer from re-occurring outbreaks, quite likely you are starving from calcium deficiency. Your body needs calcium to keep your body alkaline and highly oxygenated. Viruses cannot operate in a high alkaline body.
Most good vitamin supplements already contain 1000 milligrams of calcium per day. You may want to take an additional 1000 to 2000 milligrams daily on top of that.
2. EXTERNAL REMEDIES WORK WELL TO HEAL COLD SORES.
The most common way to heal cold sores is with a good topical cold sore treatment. This can be a salve, ointment, oil or lotion. The direct approach produces the fastest results, by far.
Ointments that contain zinc, either in the form of sulfate or gluconate, work very well when applied to the sore. Watch out for other forms of zinc, such as zinc oxide, as they do not absorb readily.
Essential oils, such as garlic or olive oil, are great cold sore treatments. They will stop any virus in its tracks when placed directly on the infected area. Faster healing will then be the result.
Once in the healing stage, the level of your health will determine how fast your body will heal cold sores. You can speed it along with the use of a warm, damp tea bag - along with the oils mentioned previously.
Additionally, constantly cleansing the sore with alcohol or peroxide is very important for fast healing. It can also prevent re-infection, or spreading the virus to a new location.
As stated at the beginning - your body knows how to heal cold sores without any extra help. But that is no reason for you to suffer any longer than necessary. The methods you have just read will greatly reduce the time of healing.
Not only will this mean a quicker return to your social obligations, but far less cold sore events and discomfort down the road.
You will find using both internal and external remedies, in combination, will provide you the highest level of success when you want to aggressively heal cold sores.
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