How do you make cold sores go away?

Answer 1

you shud ice it and treat it with aloe vera gell to dry it out and put neosporin on the cold sore scab. i get a lot of cold sores and this helps me the best. i also apply camphenic on it that helps to.

Answer 2

One way I use is the Toothpaste Method.

All you do is first wash your hand so you do not pass on any bacteria to the cold sore therefore making it worse.

Next get a small blob of toothpaste and get a sprinkle of salt and put it into a bowl. Stir the mixture, crushing the salt and then use a finger or other clean utensil to spread the mixture of toothpaste and salt over the infected area.

I recommend leaving this mixture on overnight so that people don't see you with it, and also so you are not tempted to touch it. In the morning if you do decide to use it overnight the toothpaste should have gone hard. Gently rinse it off and the cold sore should have or should have began to crust up and get a scab. Cold sores on average take 8 to 15 days to go away completely. This cure will or should speed up the process by at least 2-4 days.

Also as this is a home remedy you shouldn't have to go and splash out of £5/$5 cures in high street pharmacies for an over the counter cure.

This has been used in my family to treat cold sores for a very long time and we are very pleased with it.

Answer 3

Catching them early is the best way to go. As soon as you see the beginning of a cold sore you should apply a cold sore medication such as Abreva on several times a day. Applying this medication before you have a full cold sore will prevent it from being as bad or staying as long.

A "cold sore" is what earlier physicans called a canker...phonetically. A "cold sore" is a herpes viral infection and it can be treated to control re-appearances. Keep Acyclovir in your home medicine cabinets at all times. Acyclovir is swallowed, as a capsule, when a "cold sore" appears on one's mouth. It is also available as a gel or lotion, to place directly on the sore, with a clean finger, in a plastic glove. Herpes is very contagious.

Oral herpes, (cold sores) can appear on the genitals, if genitals touch the mouth. There are two different kinds of herpes, and herpes is FOREVER. Once you have it in your body, it is there to stay. The sores can and do re-appear when the human who carries them is under stress, in the sunlight (yes, this can trigger them) during menstrual periods, etc. NEVER allow anyone, or anything, to touch your own herpes outbursts when they are active. Although it is rare, another humanS CAN and do get herpes FROM you, even if you have no active sores on your body. So, stay clean, get a prescription, use it, and do not share eating untensils, lipsticks, glosses, medicines that are used orally, DO NOT KISS, do not have sexual contact, if the sore appears anywhere else on your body. Both sexes can and do spread it.

Answer 4

Use carmex or coco butter it really helps.

Answer 5

i know this sounds weird but take an Advil liquid gel and cut it open be care full its kinda hard! then just apply the liquid on your could sore all day. also ice it.

Answer 6

ABREVA!