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Help, looking for cold sore remedy

  • 07-05-2013 12:21pm
    #1
    eppa
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭


    Hello, I've just moved into the galay area. I have problems with cold sores in one corner of my lip, I'm starting to get one now! Any idea for a treatment, I used Abreva at home, but I'm not sure what's available here.
    thanks in advance.
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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Where is Galay? Do they not have chemists there? ;)

    It's Galway yeah? You can find treatments in the chemists/pharmacies. Try the one across from the hospital if that's close to you.


  • #3
    tinyk68
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭tinyk68


    Zovirax cold sore cream is good. Also Asic cold sore cream. Very similar but cheaper. Both are available from any chemist.


  • #4
    thegreatiam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    used teabags


  • #5
    ruahead
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭ruahead


    Well,

    here are a few tips........
    Vinegar is fantastic! It has anti bacterial and viral qualities. Coldsores are viruses.
    Dab it with vinegar a few times a day.
    Also honey, I dab manuka or any honey on it to. (meant to speed up the healing process).
    Compeed patches are good, they cover it so more hygienic and you are less likely to knock off it. I wear these a lot and use vinegar and honey in between changing them. Lysine fends off coldsores.
    Lysine supplements can be taken. Lysine is found in cheese, yoghurt and chicken(other things too). I eat these foods and take tablets during the out break.
    Arginine is the opposite of lysine and are meant to feed the coldsore. Avoid chocolate, orange juice and other arginne containing foods.
    Chill out rest and eat good. !!!


  • #6
    Rower2
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Rower2


    ruahead wrote: »
    Well,

    here are a few tips........
    Vinegar is fantastic! It has anti bacterial and viral qualities. Coldsores are viruses.
    Dab it with vinegar a few times a day.
    Also honey, I dab manuka or any honey on it to. (meant to speed up the healing process).
    Compeed patches are good, they cover it so more hygienic and you are less likely to knock off it. I wear these a lot and use vinegar and honey in between changing them. Lysine fends off coldsores.
    Lysine supplements can be taken. Lysine is found in cheese, yoghurt and chicken(other things too). I eat these foods and take tablets during the out break.
    Arginine is the opposite of lysine and are meant to feed the coldsore. Avoid chocolate, orange juice and other arginne containing foods.
    Chill out rest and eat good. !!!


    I know someone who uses lydine supplement also and feels its very effective


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  • #7
    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users Posts: 4,712 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Lysine is the best for prevention. I take double during an outbreak.


  • #8
    Ant11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,433 ✭✭✭Ant11


    Anyone recommend where to get Lysine tablets. I'm forever getting cold sores.


  • #9
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I suffer with coldsores since I was young. I have been taking lysine for the last year and it has halved or more the amount of outbreaks I get, I have had two outbreaks in 2013 and one was tiny and went away quickly and the other was less severe than normal too.

    I get my Lysine in boots and buy the 3 for the price of two offer which comes to around €19, I take 1000mg of Lysine nightly and it has helped.


  • #10
    jugger0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    Ya gotta check the lips before shifting.


  • #11
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    jugger0 wrote: »
    Ya gotta check the lips before shifting.

    It's not necessary for the symptoms (i.e. cold sores) to be there in order to pass on the herpes virus. Once a person has the virus they have it for life and can pass it on regardless of whether symptoms are showing.


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  • #12
    jugger0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    ScissorPaperRoc wrote: »
    It's not necessary for the symptoms (i.e. cold sores) to be there in order to pass on the herpes virus. Once a person has the virus they have it for life and can pass it on regardless of whether symptoms are showing.

    My mind is blown... is saliva enough to pass it on or does it have to enter a wound or something? gross


  • #13
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    ScissorPaperRoc wrote: »
    It's not necessary for the symptoms (i.e. cold sores) to be there in order to pass on the herpes virus. Once a person has the virus they have it for life and can pass it on regardless of whether symptoms are showing.

    Yes, but the risk for infection is highest with direct contact of blisters or sores during an outbreak. Otherwise, contact skin on skin is much lower risk of transmissoin.


  • #14
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    discus wrote: »
    Yes, but the risk for infection is highest with direct contact of blisters or sores during an outbreak. Otherwise, contact skin on skin is much lower risk of transmissoin.

    It can also be transmitted through saliva. But it's true that the risk is highest when during an outbreak.


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