Sunday, March 22, 2009

Cold Sore Home Remedy - Here's Some Simple Remedies

By C. Sorrenado

Are you in need of a cold sore home remedy? These sores always come up when you least expect them and it's a tough job trying to cover them up. It's embarrassing having a big red dot or a rash on your face, I mean the best you can hope for is people think it's acne!

If you don't want these outbreaks to cause you any more grief or suffering, I feel your pain. There are ways to get rid of them quick and with things you'll just find lying around the house. Here are a few tricks you can try out starting today:

1. Salt and Toothpaste

This cold sore home remedy is one you can try out right now since chances are you have both of these. All you have to do is mix the toothpaste in with a good amount of salt so that you get a rough paste. This will work to dry out your cold sore.

Now all you need to do is put this onto the cold sore at night, right before you head off to bed. In the morning, this should have done it's job and reduced the size of the sore and helped dry it up.

2. Heated Tea Bag

As crazy as it may seem, a heated teabag can work to speed along the healing of a cold sore. What you need to do is just steep a teabag in some water then take that out and place it onto the cold sore.

What will happen is the tanic acid in the tea will kill the cold sore virus before it can spread any further. Additionally the sore will end up scabbing up and healing faster than it otherwise would have.

Now with a cold sore home remedy, you will be able to get some results, however you will not be able to get rid of them as fast as you could with a more powerful treatment

One last thing to take note of is that you will also need something to prevent the sores from reappearing. If you want to tackle this problem once and for all, it will do you good to look into some more potent treatments. - 14130

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