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If you have cold sores more than nine times a year or are at high risk of serious complications, your doctor may prescribe an antiviral medicine for you to take on a daily basis.
Apply sunscreen to the area where the cold sore tends to erupt if sunshine seems to stimulate your recurrences. If you plan to be doing an activity that tends to aggravate your disease, such as intense sunlight exposure, talk to your doctor about using an oral antiviral medicine as a prophylactic.
You can take some of the following precautions to help prevent cold sores from spreading to other persons or other regions of your body:
- While blisters are present, avoid kissing and skin contact with others.
- When blisters leak fluid, the virus spreads quickly.
- Items should not be shared.
- When blisters are present, utensils, towels, lip balm, and other personal things might spread the virus.
- Keep your hands clean at all times.
- Wash your hands well before touching yourself or others, especially babies, if you have a cold sore.
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- Lemon balm- Use a lip balm with lemon essence or prepare your own with lemon tea.
- Antivirals available over the counter.
- Ice can help with the pain and irritation of cold sores. For temporary relief, apply a cold pack directly to the sores.
- Aloe vera. – Take a fresh aloe vera plant and apply it to the affected region because it has anti-inflammatory effects.
- Apply sunscreen to the affected region to protect it from the sun.
