Cold Sores Home Remedies from Canada

<–(See? Even pretty people get cold sores, and on their noses no less…)

Right, so there’s a cold sore on your schnoz then, I take it?  Well, you’ve come to the right place–although the most common place that cold sores occur is on the lip and right around the mouth, the second most common location is the nose (hey, you can also get them on your EYE, so feel better cause it could be worse), but you treat them exactly the same way you would a normal cold sore on your lip, here’s what to do:

There’s a variety of prescription and OTC treatments that you can try (see here for more info: Cure Cold Sores? Known Treatments and Remedies), however myself and my friends have been long-time cold sore sufferers with

outbreak by a day or so, that’s about it).  Over the years we’ve found a few various supplements and home remedies that actually work better than anything available from the pharmacy or drug store…

• Start taking lysine if you’re not already, not only will it shorten the duration of your outbreak if you’ve already got one but it’ll also, at lower doses, help prevent one from ever occuring in the first place.  Suggested dosage is 1000mg 3 times per day during an active outbreak and 500mg per day as a preventative measure.
• Also, I’d recommend that you start on Vitamin C to help boost your immune system if you don’t already take it, and Vitamin B-12 has been showen to slow the replication of the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores.
• Apply lip balm (I like carmex for this) to your cold sore AFTER
  

  you wash it (you should be doing this once every few hours to keep it clean and dry) to keep it from spreading to the rest of your face or to other people (the wax in the balm seals the cold sore and keeps the liquid containing the virus from seeping out).

• After you wash it apply some witch hazel or other alcohol (benzyl and isopropyl work as well) to the cold sore with a q-tip, you’ll be amazed at how much this will help.
• Melting an ice cube on it when it gets particularly irritating can really help to reduce the itching, and we also think it helps slow the development of the cold sore and makes it heal faster.

For even more information on home remedies, definitely check this out:

Something My Friend Concocted…

My best experience with home remedies is with something concocted by Grace, a close friend of mine, and I must say that this cold sore treatment has worked every single time for me (often inside of 24 hours), and even more impressive is I’ve seen it work on about 25 other people she’s tried it on, with very good consistency. She was so enthusiastic about her discovery that she has decided to turn it into an e-book, so I wouldn’t be much of a friend if I didn’t try to help her out a bit on my blog. One of the first women that we “experimented” on (she’s our close friend and was glad to give it a go), was Gretchen, who occasionally crosses the border from Wisconsin to come visit us, look at what she said:

“Grace,

I wanted to get a note to you to thank you for the information in your ebook. I must admit I was very skeptical when I read your instructions, but you were right on the money. My double bout with cold sores was gone after only 6 days. The best part of this entire program has been that to this point (3 months later), the cold sores have not returned. I can hardly believe it – thanks so much!”

Gretchen Rhodes, 47
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Please go have a look at my friend Grace’s solution for the matter here: Cold Sore Freedom: Cold Sores Cured in 3 Days–I’ve personally tried this and it is currently my favorite method of handling my cold sores, and it’s not because it’s necessarily the fastest (I’ve found that if I drain, wash, and apply nail polish remover to a cold sore several times a day while keeping an ice cube on it the WHOLE day, about 50% of the time it’ll be gone in about 2 days, but it’s unreliable at best and you can’t do ANYTHING else that day but attend to your cold sore). It’s because it works EVERY TIME, often within the first 24 hours–3 days is more like the unlikely maximum, you’re much more likely to see it gone within 24 hours or so–and it only requires a few minutes of your time every day, so I highly recommend you give it a chance and if it doesn’t work then just get your money back, no harm no foul we’re all still friends, ok?