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If you feel a cold sore coming is there anything you can do to stop it?

If you feel a cold sore coming is there anything you can do to stop it?

that's tough...If you've never had a cold sore, try your damndest to avoid touching or kissing someone with an open cold sore, and cover any skin sores, cuts, breaks, or lesions if you're around someone with cold sores. Sometimes, though, HSV-1 can be transmitted while dormant, so you might contract and never know.
Instead of picking at or scratching a cold sore blister, use clean washcloth, hot (the hotter the better) water, and antibacterial soap to gently soak and scrub the cold sore and surrounding area. The hot and water soap act to minimize infection and cleanse any pussy fluids that will further spread the cold sore. Be careful not to overscrub, which can irritate the cold sore and cause further infection.
Pure petroleum jelly, or a pain-relief product like Neosporin will work to seal in the herpes virus, minimize irritation, and keep out further infection. To apply a product to your cold sore, wash your hands with hot, soapy water (before and after) and gently dab a generous amount to the surrounding area and directly on to the cold sore, working your way inwards to avoid spreading the virus out.
Specific triggers are different for everyone, but stress, anxiety, menstruation, salty or acidic foods (such as potato chips or citrus foods), overexposure to extreme weather (bright sun or cold winds), or other health problems such as the flu or a cold are common causes of cold sores. Monitor your outbreaks to determine your most common triggers and take action to 1) avoid triggers, 2) anticipate an outbreak and take start cold sore treatment ahead of time to get rid of oncoming cold sore as fast as possible.

Try Campho-Fenique. It tastes pretty bad, it is the best. It got rid of my cold sore in 2 days. DO NOT, I repeat, do not freeze it, that can either get it cut or infected, then you will have to see a doctor for medications.

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Good luck ;-)

Put ice on it. It freezes the virus.

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