Finally A Cure For Cold Sores?
Cold sores are an unfortunate illness that many people suffer from. The blisters shows up when you least need them and they are not avoidable. And the worst part is that once you get it, you will always be prone to get infected again. The virus just lies waiting in your body for the rest of your life. But fear not. Microbiologists at Duke University seem to have discovered a potential cure.
Almost 90% of adulst have been exposed to the herpes simplex virus-1 and thus cold sores. Once it enters the body, it will stay there for the rest of your life, making you prone to get cold sores whenever. There are many triggers to the virus, like stress, exposure to sunlight, getting a fever and so on. The virus usually situates in the cranial nerves, near the spine. After the virus has become active and produced a cold sore, the usual treatment has been the drug acyclovir, also called Zovirax. This hinders the cold sores to replicate and thus limit the outbreak. There has however not been any progress in finding a cure for cold sore, untill now.
Up untill now, the research has just been focusing on keeping the HSV-1 inactive and just try to prevent the cold sore from erupting. But Dr. Bryan Cullen at Duke University has taken another approach.The theory behind the cure is that they want to make the virus active and keep it active. By blocking the microRNA that suppresses the HSV1, the virus will remain active and one can use acyclovir to kill the virus for good. This can later be transferred to cure HSV-2 (genital herpes).
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