If you are looking for cold sore treatment fast, today is your lucky day! Today I’m sharing a tried and true, old fashioned cold sore home remedy! I’ve actually given you a few different suggestions below for getting rid of a cold sore fast.. I’ve even seen these remedies get rid of a cold sore in one day on many occasions!
What is a Cold Sore
A cold sore, also known as a fever blister – is a small blister or sore caused by the Herpes Simplex Virus and it’s as common as the common cold.
Cold Sore Symptoms
If you’re prone to cold sores or fever blisters, you know that they start out as a kind of burn or tingle and you soon find just a small ‘bump’ in the area of that burn. That ‘bump’ soon turns to one of the most painful blisters or clusters of blisters you can ever imagine. A cold sore is most commonly found around the lips. They are very contagious!
Cold Sore Home Remedies That Work Fast!
Tea Tree Oil for Cold Sores
One natural remedy that is said to work is mixing just a little coconut oil with tea tree oil. Now that tea tree oil is yucky. I hate that stuff. But it’s good for a lot of things and has very powerful healing properties. We’ll talk about Tea Tree Oil one day soon.
Lysine for Cold Sores
Also L-Lysine
Studies show that lysine supplements and lysine-based ointment may shorten the duration of cold sore outbreaks by keeping the herpes simplex virus from replicating. In a 2005 study of 30 patients, for instance, scientists found that cold sores cleared up in 40 percent of participants after three days of using a lysine-based ointment. By the sixth day of treatment, cold sore symptoms were resolved in 87 percent of patients. http://altmedicine.about.com/
Carmex
Buttermilk for Cold Sores
Several of my own family members have been plagued with cold sores now and then but I’ve had only a very few in my lifetime. But when I feel one coming on – I immediately get out the buttermilk and start dabbing.
Just a dab of buttermilk with the end of your finger onto that fever blister – about every 15 minutes for a hour or so – will get you relief within the hour no matter how bad that fever blister is. By the end of the day, that cold sore is usually history and you’re back to your old cheerful self.
Recently – I had a private message from a friend and she said “HELP!!! I have the biggest and most painful fever blister in the world – what can I do that will help?”
I said “If you don’t already have it – run to the grocery and get some buttermilk.
Dab a little buttermilk on that fever blister – every 15 minutes for at least an hour and you won’t believe what that one hour of buttermilk dabbing will do.”
She messaged me back in a couple hours and said “I cannot BELIEVE how fast that buttermilk took the pain away and started healing that fever blister”
I can’t attest to all of these remedies. But I’ve used buttermilk on fever blisters before and they were gone that day! POOF!
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My cold sores are tenacious. Even the medicine doesn’t work if I don’t catch it within the first few hours. I don’t know if I could try a home remedy. But if they were mild I just might try this since my medicine is so expensive.
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Kim … I had a local friend email me recently … and she said she had the most painful fever blister she’d ever had and wanted to know if I had anything to stop part of the pain. She had already tried 2 or 3 meds and it wasn’t helping. She said her fever blister was HUGE and so painful. I told her about the buttermilk and she literally ran right then to get some and started dabbing it on her fever blister … she emailed me later that day and was just in shock. She said the pain was going and the blister was going away. Give it a try … it will cost you $1 … lol
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I’ve never really heard of someone using buttermilk to get rid of a cold sore. Do you just drink it, or do you have to apply it to your mouth or something? I’ve read before that lysene works. In my experience, it has worked for me just fine. Would you say that the buttermilk works faster? http://beatherpes.com/herpes-simplex-treatment
Oh GOODNESS Jordan … the buttermilk works TONS faster. I’ve had trouble with fever blisters for years. And I’ve used Lysene but it takes too long for me for that to work. USUALLY a couple days or so. Buttermilk will work within the hour!!! Just put about a tbsp in a little saucer or bowl and every 10 minutes for that hour just dip your finger in that buttermilk and rub it on your fever blister…..it should be totally pain free and going down within that first hour….then I do it on and off the rest of the day … just every couple hours and it’s gone the next day.
I got up last Sunday morning and I had a monster brewing on my lower lip. I play piano at church so I thought “OH my GOODNESS this is going to be GROSS from the piano” lol SO I started patting on the buttermilk about 5am and by the time I set down at that piano stool it was totally invisible and pain was gone….it’s amazing. Now you always put it on TOPICALLY … RUB IT ON the fever blister…..hope it works for you. It’s worked for all I’ve given it to for years….thanks for ready and hope you stop back by soon…