Remedies For Cold Sores

Cold sores are painful, unsightly, and can even lead to a fever and other uncomfortable symptoms. Most importantly, if you have a cold sore, you want to find a remedy that will quickly cure the cold sore outbreak and get you back into living.

While the causes of cold sores are many, orofacial cold sore outbreaks can be controlled and often limited in intensity if you are able to start treating a cold sore quickly.

Many times, the remedies for cold sores involve an expensive trip to a doctors office, an even more expensive trip to the druge store for prescription, and then upwards of TWO WEEKS waiting for the drugs to kick in. This is clearly not what you need when facing a cold sore outbreak. Further, did you know the more you take certain anti-viral drugs, the less they work? Your body builds up an immunity to them, and the effect is often lessened each and every time - often to the point of not working at all.

Remedies for cold sores, however, are not limited to just prescription drugs. There are several other options available that are in many cases much quicker to resolve the cold sore.

There are many wonderful natural remedies for cold sores:

Dietary Supplements Some dietary supplements. While research is still pending, in some cases there has been dramatic improvment when making dietary changes and using certain dietary supplements

Aloe Vera Aloe is certainly one of natures great healing compounds. Found naturally in Aloe plants, Aloe vera gels can help reduce the pain and redness of a cold sore and shows some ability to prevent future outbreaks as well

Lemon balm Lemon balm can act as an agent that blocks some cold sore outbreaks using certain anti viral properties contained in its extract

There are also countless other natural remedies for cold sores, some of which have been shown to be 90%+ effective in getting rid of cold sores in a matter of days, not weeks.