How to prevent cold sores is one of the number one concern of anyone who is plagued by frequent outbreaks. About 80% of the population is infected with the herpes virus that causes cold sores to appear on our lips, nostrils, and chins. Some of this group of infected persons will never have an outbreak, they are simply virus carriers, while others will have numerous outbreaks, and for some of those they may experience the blisters once a month. Cold sore prevention has been the topic of many scientific studies.
Cold sore prevention is mainly achieved by the individual creating a healthy body that gives the virus few chances to rear its ugly head. Our bodies require rest, proper nutrition, and proper fluid intakes in order for it to stay in the best working order. Just like cars have trouble operating efficiently when you give them poor quality fuel, your body has a hard time doing what it needs to do when you give it poor quality fuel.
Your car also requires you keep everything lubed, and greased so all the parts can perform their actions effortlessly. Your body has to have enough water every day to keep all your parts performing their functions effortlessly. It takes approximately eight glasses of water per day. Those are eight ounce glasses. Beverages including fruit juices, tea, sodas, and especially alcoholic ones do not count towards the eight glasses of water. You put brake fluid, and washer fluid in your car, but you still make sure it has enough oil. You do not consider the others a substitution.
You can prevent cold sores by staying healthy and fit, reducing drama and emotional stresses in your life. Emotional stress puts as big a toll, if not a bigger toll on your body than physical stresses like illness.
Avoid the common causes of cold sores like staying out in the sun until your skin burns, drinking alcoholic beverages until you are sick the next day, and avoid kissing, or drinking after someone who has the blisters on their mouth. Cold sores prevent you from eating and drinking normally, so try when you are having an outbreak to consume things full of nutrients to help your immune system work.
You want to increase your consumption of foods that are high in lysine to help prevent outbreaks. The more lysine you have in your cells the less likely that the herpes simplex 1 virus can invade and use that cell to make a replica of its self. So eat plenty of foods that have high lysine concentrations like beef, apples, pears, yogurt, eggs, cheese, milk, summer squash, apricots, mangos, flounder, and chicken. Eating these foods will help you to prevent outbreaks.
You can also add licorice to your diet, because it helps to reduce the pain and swelling, and it helps to inhibit the herpes from replicating as well. Licorice flavored foods will not help you it must be foods that contain real licorice. Licorice candies are generally made with anise to give it the taste we associate with licorice.
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I am Bruce DeMilo and I have been through the pain and ugly appearance of cold sores all my life. I finally did something about it, and created a website where you can go to find facts, and solutions to this horrible but controllable virus. I invite you to come see my site and read my free mini-course on "Life Without Cold Sores by clicking to http://www.coldsoresremediescenter.com/preventing-cold-sores
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