Foods To Avoid With Cold Sores-Foods high in arginine
Milk
Nuts like almonds, walnuts, pecans, peanuts
Dark Chocolate
Flax, sesame and most other seeds
Shell type seafood
Oranges, grapes and other fruits and berries-
Caffeine
Basically cutting back on foods that are high in arginine can shorten the healing time of the fever blisters. Adding B12 and folic acid into your diet can also help shorten the healing time.
Foods That May Help With Cold Sores-Foods rich in lysine
Chicken
Eggs
Beef
Apples
Papaya
Beets
Cheeses and Yogurts
A couple easy home remedies that I found at www.oohoi.com are:
-With clean hands, moisten your fingers and press them into common salt. Apply to the fever blister for 30 seconds or so. Just as gargling warm salt water can help a sore throat and canker sores, placing salt on fever blisters may reduce healing time.
-Apply ice to the sore. When applied for ten minutes approximately every hour, this solution may prevent the cold sore from developing any further. Other substances that you can apply which may help are witch hazel and spirit of camphor.
I think that I am going to give this a try as my cold sore is making me miserable!! I will let you know how it turns out.
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