How Can You Prevent Cold Sores?
If you are one of the unfortunates to have caught the herpes simplex virus, then you are going to have to live with the risk of an outbreak at any time for the rest of your life. This may be a harsh fact to face, but believe me, there are many steps one can take to be able to reduce the amount of times the virus breaks out. So how can you prevent cold sores you might think, but fear not. There are plenty of steps that can be taken to prevent cold sores and I have made a list of things that are going to help keep these pestering blisters away.
The common man would say that you should lead a healthy life and you wont become sick. This offcourse goes for cold sores, and especially these viruses. Cold sores thrive upon weak immune systems and one should therefore do everything to keep it working properly. Factors in life like tiredness, stress and illnesses makes us weaker and that goes for our immune system aswell. Getting enough sleep is a factor that we easily can fix, but illnesses are something that mostly are out of our hands. To stay healthy, take vitamin supplement, eat healthy, excercise and be happy. Works for me and should for everyone else. Stress is a factor that we can do some work on. Ive already talked about it in my article Help For Cold Sores: Stress Relievers about how one can reduce stress in ones daily life.
Eating a healthy diet also is important to stay cold sore free. There are different types of food that are known to reduce the occurence of cold sore outbreaks. These are foods that include a lot of lysine and less of arginine. Therefore you should eat foods like:
- Dairy Products (milk, cheese, youghurt, etc)
- Legumes
- Fish
- Sprouts
All these are rich on lysine and should be enough to cover your daily need and even bring the cold sore to a halt. Its also important to avoid foods that are rich in arginine. Those are:
- Chocolate
- Nuts
- Oats
- Carob
- Soya Beans (not soy that are in tofu and soy milk)
For a more thorough list of products you can go here for more information on which products are good for your recovery from cold sores.
Preventing cold sores is a daunting task, but if one is prepared and have the right information at their disposal it will be much easier. Being able to get help from the food, almost having it work as medecine is a great thing. One should therefore not start shoving in unhealthy food when one feels sorry for themselves, but rather take action and try to get rid of the cold sore as soon as possible. If you would like to cure your sores even faster, Id recommend to check out Cold Sore Freedom in 3 Days, a site about how one can cure your cold sores as fast as 3 days! This has also been permanent for some, so definately worth checking out.
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