Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Once you have been infected with cold sores, it is rather difficult to remove the virus completely.  However, you can control the appearance of cold sores by using several methods of treatments.  One effective cold sore treatment is by using the cold sore patches.  The patches are to be used on your lips, the area of mouth and the overall facial area to treat the appearance of blisters.

Most of the time the virus will not be active in your body and thus you won’t feel any symptoms.  However, during certain times outbreaks may occur due to certain triggering factors such as stress, increase in body temperature, wrong food intake and excessive exposure to sunlight and wind.  When blisters occur the experience is often painful and that is why you must treat them when you feel the first hint of outbreak.

The common symptoms of cold sores are itchiness and soreness for the first few days accompanied by little but painful blisters that will appear mostly on the lip area.  During this stage, the virus causing the cold sores is very active and thus it is highly contagious.  Apart from taking precautionary actions to prevent spreading of the virus to other people, it is very important that you get rid of the blisters effectively.  The use of a cold sore treatment in the form of patches can do the job effectively, and you will experience relief in just a few days.