1. It’s been found through experience that some people’s immune systems are very sensitive to a chemical found in white
   

   flour called “gluten”, and consuming it can lower your immune response which can thereby trigger an outbreak of cold sores (almost all cold sore outbreaks can be directly correlated to some decrease in immune function for some reason), so simply changing your diet so

   you avoid wheat gluten can reduce your incidence of cold sores by up to 90%.

2. Taking l-lysine as a preventative measure helps enormously, and I’m not the first one to discover this–take 500mg once a day to help prevent cold sores and 500mg 3 times daily during an active outbreak, it will shorten the duration of the cold sores!
3. Another couple of great supplements are
   

   Vitamin C and Vitamin B-12. B-12 has been shown specifically to help combat the herpes virus, and Vitamin C is an obvious choice since it boosts your immune system and the sooner your immune system gets back to 100% the sooner the outbreak will end.

4. It’s stupid-simple, but I’ve found something that will reduce the duration of an outbreak significantly plus it reduces pain, swelling, and irritation: just melt an ice cube over the cold sore for about 10 minutes every 2 hours or so, works wonders.
5. Applying witch hazel to the cold sore by q-tip once every two hours after you ice it to death also helps, this is something me and my friends have all tried and all agree is definitely having an effect on the cold sore, so I’d highly recommend you try it and see how it works for you.

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?

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Prescription and OTC stuff can help to a small degree, but frankly I’ve found the home remedies to be more effective, plus theres nothing really out there as far as preventative measures go that’s prescription or OTC so if that’s what you want you’ll have to go the homemade route.  About the best the prescriptions and OTC stuff seem to be able to do is shorten the length of your outbreak by one, maybe two days if you’re lucky, that’s it.

I’ve found that if you feel the tingling sensation of an

oncoming outbreak that you usually get where the cold sore’s going to emerge a couple days before it actually does (people who have had cold sores before a few times know what I’m talking about), then 80-90% of the time you can actually prevent that cold sore from ever emerging if you take appropriate

action fast, here’s what to do (do each one of these steps once every 2 hours):

1. Wash the affected area with a wash cloth and soap, being sure to throw the wash cloth in the laundry and use a new one each time since the old one will be soaked in active herpes simplex 1 virus.

2. Take about 10 minutes to melt an ice cube on the affected spot, this numbs any pain and slows down the virus’s metabolism.

3. Apply either witch hazel or benzyl alcohol (benzyl alcohol is rumored to be more effective but more difficult to find) with a q-tip.


I’d also recommend you take L-Lysine at 1000mg 3 times per day for about the next 5-7 days along with plenty of Vitamin C (boosts your immune system) and Vitamin B-12 (has been shown to help with cold sores).  For more information on using lysine on cold sores check this out: Lysine: Cold Sores Treatment? Dosage and How-To… See here for more detailed information on home remedies and treatment options:

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?

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is precisely what they do, in my experience), and possibly reduce the pain and discomfort by a small amount.  Prescription creams do the same thing, essentially, only not as well (yup, pretty much).  Abreva is ok, I will say that it does definitely help with the pain and discomfort, sort of a numbing sensation, but actually (and I know this sounds stupidly obvious) I’ve personally found that ice, of all things, works better at this: ice the cold sore once every two hours and that will go further to reduce the pain and inflammation than anything else I’ve tried (just melt an ice cube on it over about a ten minute period).

I know people will tend to be searching for treatment information for cold sores once they’ve already got one, but I’d like to go over a couple really effective preventative measures that will keep you from having to deal with an active outbreak 90% of the time when you would’ve otherwise had one.  Take lysine, not only during an outbreak but prior to one too: 1000mg 3 times a day during an outbreak, and 500mg daily as a preventative measure (go here for more information on l-lysine: Lysine: Cold Sores Treatment? Dosage and How-To…), also Vitamin C can help (not only with cold sores, but keeping you healthy in general as you probably already know) because it boosts your immune system and it’s been shown that cold sore outbreaks almost always occur when the immune system gets temporarily depressed for some reason (this is why illnesses like the flu or strep will often trigger an outbreak).  Also, once you feel

the tingle of an oncoming cold sore (most people will feel and recognize this a couple days before the cold sore emerges), immediately start washing the affected area and hitting it with witch hazel applied via a q-tip once every 2 hours, this will often stop it cold before

it has a chance to emerge (some people say that benzyl alcohol works better, but good luck finding some, it’s not prescription just kinda obscure).  For more detailed information on home remedies I highly recommend you see: Cold Sores Remedies – Personal Experiences with 20 Different Remedies.

It seems that researchers are closing in on the HSV-1 virus (the virus that typically causes cold sores, although the other strain, HSV-2, can cause oral infections):

Until now, research has generally concentrated on keeping HSV1 inactive — and preventing cold sores from ever showing up. But the Duke researchers took the opposite tack: figuring out precisely how to switch the virus from latency to its active stage. That’s important, says lead author Dr. Bryan Cullen, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke, “because unless you activate the virus, you can’t kill it.”

Go here to read the full Time article: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1819739,00.html

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?

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system). For specific information see this (I bolded the dosage information as I imagine that’s what you’re likely after):

“An imbalance in the amino acids lysine and arginine is thought to be one contributing factor in herpes virus outbreaks. A diet that is rich in the amino acid lysine may help prevent recurrences of cold sores. Foods which contain high levels of lysine include most vegetables, legumes, fish, turkey, and chicken. In one study, patients taking lysine supplements had milder symptoms during an outbreak, a shorter healing time, and had fewer outbreaks than patients who did not take lysine. Patients should take 1,000mg of lysine three times a day during a cold sore outbreak and 500mg daily on an ongoing basis to prevent recurrences. Intake of the amino acid arginine should be reduced. Foods rich in arginine that should be avoided are chocolate, peanuts, almonds, and other nuts and seeds.”

Source: HealthAtoZ.com

For much more extensive information on home remedies for cold sores I highly recommend you see this:

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?

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