Cold sore treatment

Cold sore generally removes automatically without any medical treatment after ten to fourteen days. Thus many people wait for the sore to heal automatically and don't undertake any kind of treatment. While there are many people who cannot withstand this pain for a period of ten days and look out for medicines and different treatments to get rid of cold sore. Treatments to cold sore include taking antiviral pills or making use of prescription creams. Many people use common tablets like aspirin and combiflem etc to get rid of the pain.

People who suffer from cold sore for the first time should go for antiviral medications. However these tablets are available only with prescription thus a doctor must be consulted. Some medications like acyclovir and famciclovir are good for pain relief and also reduce the time a clod sore takes to heal. Antiviral medications are best effective when taken just when the cold sore is in its initial stage.

Various creams especially those containing docosanol are also very helpful in healing cold sore. Docosanol is very effective against the virus that causes cold sore an also heals cold sore quite quickly. There are various other creams that numb the places surrounding the cold sore and also moisturize the skin around the sore.

Some other good cold sore treatments include the usage of medicines like aspirin, ibuprofen etc and are good in treating the swelling and providing pain relief. Although there is no effective cure for cold sore but one can make use of all such treatments to reduce the period of cold sore and makes it less painful. Thus cold sore is a painful infection and one can reduce his sufferings by carefully carrying out some of the above treatments and make the pain a bit bearable.