I am prone to fever blisters and I use Abreva for them but is there anything out!
Question: I usually only get one or two a year. Once in the winter and once in the summer. I think I have one now due to stress. Abreva does work but I just wanted to know if anything else works a little faster without a perscription.
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Herpecin-L I love the stuff!
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In addition to abreva also use a product with benzocaine in it to numb it and clean it with peroxide before applying the medications. Also get some Lysine at the health food store and take three a day when you have an outbreak.
You can try "Campor Phenique" which comes in a tube and is available over the counter in any drug store.
Go to the pharmacy in the vitamin section ,get a bottle of L-Lysine(500mg)follow directions on the bottle. Take this until the blister clears.Anytime you feel one popping back up,start taking it again.You don't have to take it all the time,just daily until the blister clears.
Just make sure that your lips are always moisturized. That's a good preventive practise. I find Abreva to be the best.
alcohol can keep it from coming up if you put a cottonball soaked with alcohol on it at the first sign of a breakout.
The thing that works best for me is to follow a diet rich in the amino acid L Lysine and low in the amino acid L Argenine.
What we're talking about here is basically a form of Herpes, right?
It is deffintely brought on by stress. It lives in your nerve endings and pops up when you get stressed out. If you follow the diet closely you will find that they go away alot faster and the discomfort is less while you have them.
A fairly good list of foods to eat or not eat follows.
Source(s):
http://www.herpes.com/Nutrition.shtml
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