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Please help cold sore issues ?
I had a cold sore and it swell up my whole right side of lip and this occured for three days before I went to the hospital and they felt I had a bacterial infection and really bad cold sore and prescribed me meds. Well yesterday I was crying all day from the pain. Ice packs only helps a little but the swelling would come back bigger than ever. I fell asleep and woke up at 2 am and it was oozing out. So I figure it busted and I clean it but its still oozing and my lip looks like my lip now looks like it is cut open with the stuff oozing out. What can I do?
1 Answer
- 8 years ago
One supplement that helps with canker or cold sores is lysine. It is an amino acid that helps your immune system to fight infection. It's not expensive, and only requires a couple per day, when sores are present, and one every day or two, when they aren't.
As for cleaning it, try to use a mixture of baking soda and soap. This will sanitize the surface of the sore, and keep it from getting further infected, as well as drying it out a little. Try to do this gently a few times a day, and it should help reduce the swelling and inflammation.
You can suck on the lysine tablets, and that will deliver it a little more quickly into your system. It'll taste like chalk, but it should also immediately reduce the inflammation in about an hour or less.
