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If your mouth is sore and have difficulty eating, drinking and sleeping. If you have a slight fever, a sore throat or swollen lymph nodes, it is likely that you have a cold sore. Cold sores are blisters on the lips and the edge of the mouth that are caused by an infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). About 6 to 48 hours before a cold sore is visible, you may feel tingling, burning, itching, numbness, tenderness, or pain in the affected area. The condition is triggered by a long list of factors that include stress, allergy, dental treatment other infections and taking of certain medication.

There are over the counter medication that is effective cold sore remedy. There are also home remedies being recommended such as a cold compress, applying moisturizers, petroleum jelly and using herbal remedies such as tea tree oil and sage. These may not work immediately but cold sore blisters usually break open, weep clear fluid, and then crust over and disappear after a few days. Recurrence can be prevented with supplements such as lysine and zinc. Vitamin C is also a good supplement to strengthen the immune system.

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There are things that you get used to as a kid whether you like it or not. Among those stuff you may not like are medicines, vitamins, drinking milk, vaccines, colds, fever, chicken pox, and scratches. One of the pesky things I had to deal with once in a while as a kid was cold sores. It didn’t happen to me all the time just once in a while but it was literally, a pain in the mouth. Fortunately cold sore medication was easy to find back then and easy to find today as well.

There are several ways to treat cold sores there are antibiotics, oral medication etc… When I was a kid, there was one awful tasting medication for cold sores. It came with a brush and each time I had cold sores my mom would brush the medicine over the sore. Whenever it was applied on my sores it would cause a burning sensation. However, it worked right away; I only had to suffer for a day or two.

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