Learning how to get rid of cold sores

While one approach to find how to get rid of cold sores is simply to try what the experts recommend, a better strategy may be to make a note of all the treatments you try and try and gauge the effectiveness of each. Obviously you can't try everything in one go, because if something works you won't know which specific treatment it was and so ideally you would try one treatment for each cold sore outbreak.

Ideally you should take a prolific notes, recording the times at which symptoms occurred and treatments started, as well as the overall time of the outbreak and any specific points you notice such as level of discomfort or any thing else at all. By collating the data carefully and analyzing it later you really can learn how to get rid of cold sores on your own.

What conventional treatment of cold sores can't achieve

Conventional treatment of cold sores completely focuses on getting rid of the symptoms of an attack, rather than tackling the root cause. Medicines are designed to aid healing of the blister and lesion, rather than preventing them from occurring and to be fair, alternative and home remedies also focus on this.

The bad news is that currently there is no treatment to get rid of the virus - once infected always infected. However, by stepping back from the immediate symptoms of cold sores and evaluating our lifestyles we can make a difference. Ask yourself what you are doing to add stress to your body. Are you eating right? Getting enough exercise? Taking the opportunity to really relax? If the answer to these is "no" then you should make some changes towards the better - holistic treatment of cold sores rather than remedial treatment.