June 2008
7 posts
Using Lemon Balm to help heal cold sores
I hope you’re doing ok and finding this short course on cold sores useful. If you have any questions, please let me know by replying to this email and I’ll try and get back to you as soon as I can with an answer. If it’s a REALLY good question then maybe I’ll send the reply to everyone who is signed up for this list too.
Anyway, today I wanted to tell you about using lemon...
A note about cold sore cures
In my last post I mentioned Grace Melgarejo’s book called Cold Sore Freedom in 3 Days, which is available by clicking here.
In it she discusses ways to reduce the frequency and severity of attacks using the combination of treatments she used to cure her chronic outbreaks, and I really recommend that you take a look at it - just check out some of the comments from satisfied customers on her...
Best cold sore treatments
Yesterday I discussed using ice to treat cold sores and that by applying it directly to the skin in the area where you get your cold sores it acts to slow down the development of the reawakened virus to the extent that cold sores are much reduced in severity or in some cases fail to appear at all.
Before I go on to talk about some other cold sore remedies that can be highly effective I’d...
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How to get rid of cold sores
Maybe you’ve followed all my advice in the previous post where I was discussing how to prevent cold sores from occurring in the first place, but still you suffer a cold sore outbreak. All that effort gone into prevention and you still got one!
Don’t worry, it will happen sometimes, but the main point is that you suffer fewer cold sore outbreaks.
When you do have an outbreak occur you...
Preventing cold sores
In my previous posts I was talking about what cold sores are and a little bit about herpes simplex, but maybe what I haven’t made clear yet is that once infected with the virus it will remain with you for life - there is no cure. Because of that you need to shift your attention from healing cold sores to preventing cold sores from occurring in the first place.
Put simply, cold sores occur...
Herpes Simplex Explained
Yesterday I talked a bit about cold sores and what they are and mentioned that they’re caused by the herpes simplex virus. In fact they are usually caused by herpes simplex virus I (HSV-1), a close relation to HSV-2 which usually causes genital herpes.
I’ll explain a bit more about that later, but first of all a bit about the virus; once we’ve contracted HSV we are infected for...
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What are cold sores?
Over the next few days I’ll be filling you in with info about cold sores and specifically what steps you can take to help prevent them and help them heal faster, but to start with I just want to take a high level overview before going into any detail.
As a fellow sufferer you’ll be familiar with the pain and emotional trauma caused by a new cold sore outbreak. In short, cold sores are...