Cold Sore Symptoms

How to deal with cold sore symptoms

Cold sores are very difficult situation to deal with. Cold sore is caused by a virus termed Herpes Simplex Virus – I. This virus tends to take hostage in the cell of the human body. They disappear for the time being when they are treated and later, they tend to resurface on the skin.S

Symptoms of Cold sore

Before appearing on the surface of the skin, cold sore shows certain symptoms. Symptoms are not felt by everybody, some tend to get it and some don’t. Some get a feeling of tingling, itching or burning in the place where the blister may surface.

The blister of cold sore is reddish in colour so few people get this reddish colour in the place where the blister may surface. Later, once when the blister develops completely, the scabs are filled in the blister. Many a times, there are many scabs that form one big blister or many scabs form many small blisters.

Many people doesn’t get any uncomfortable feeling neither they get reddishness on the skin before the cold sore surfaces on the skin. Blisters just break out in the skin when these people are sleeping. This situation is more painful because if an individual can see or feel any kind of symptoms then in that case, he or she can take steps, quite in advance, so that the infection and the pain may be reduced but if there is no symptom then in that case, the individual will have to bear the pain as he or she is left out with no other option.

Avoiding Cold sore blisters

Once an individual tends to get Cold sore then it is very clear that the herpes virus has entered his or her body and hence, they are going to stay forever. It is always better to avoid these blisters from surfacing on the skin. An individual can take the following steps to avoid resurfacing of blisters: -

1. If an individual gets cold sores at regular intervals then he or she should avoid using things like utensils, towel, razor, brush and other possible things that he or she had used while having blisters so that the virus doesn’t contract back to the skin.
2.  Such individuals need to be always calm as increase in stress level leads to increase in the number of herpes so it is always better to practice exercises to gain physical and mental balance.

The intensity of the blisters depends on the intensity of infection. If the infection is high then in that case, he or she may have to bear with the pain of the blister for quite long time. The cold sore blister can tend to remains for 3-4 days or even for 15 days depending on the intensity of the infection.