How To Treat Fever Blisters At Home
June 30, 2009
Fever blisters, an infection of the herpes zoster virus cause painful, eruptive, fluid filled contagious blisters in the mouth and surrounding areas. Some other predominant symptoms are fever, enlarged lymph nodes and general body ache. Fever blisters are caused by (HZV-1) type of herpes virus and affects many people over the age of 50 years. However there are many ways by which we can treat fever blisters at home.
Doctors do prescribe medicines and topical ointments to help cure fever blisters. This condition lasts for 9 to 12 days and various home remedies can help in various stages of fever blister.
Ice can be used at home to help the infected person during the first 2 days; known as the prodrome stage. This is when the infected person has the symptoms of tingling, itching and burning sensation in and around the mouth region. When one applies ice packs for 5 to 10 minutes every hour over the fever blisters it has a soothing effect and also helps to prevent further development of the fever blisters.
Tea Bags can be effectively used at home to treat fever blisters. The tannic acid present in tea helps to fight virus and it’s development and prevents and retards the development of the fever blister into more painful conditions.
Aloe Vera, the queen of all skin ailments offers an effective home remedy for fever blisters. One could cut the sap of this leaf or apply it’s gel on the infected and affected area and watch for it’s soothing and retarding quality in treating fever blisters.
Honey, another effective home remedy for many ailments has the property to prevent and fight virus conditions and can be easily applied over the fever blisters regularly. One can be sure of getting over the condition of fever blisters fast.
Fever blister treatment at home requires that one includes foods rich in Vitamin B complex and folic acid. It is best to avoid or minimize foods like chocolate, nuts, peanuts, oatmeal and whole grains. It is best to avoid having coffee and spicy and salty foods too till the fever blisters are gone.
Along with making use of all these home remedies to treat fever blisters one should take care of personal hygiene too. This would help to prevent the spread of infection to all other parts of the body also. One should make sure one has a separate toothbrush, separate towel and other personal items. In addition this would also help to prevent your near and dear to also go through the same condition.
To conclude most of these home remedies will help you to shorten or prevent further growth of fever blisters. It would also be in one’s interest to avoid other triggering factors like fever, illnesses, stress, sunlight exposure, fatigue, infections, cold, allergies, skin trauma in the mouth area and a weakened immune system.
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