Cold Sore Relief: What to Use on Your First Symptom of a Breakout?

Novitra Cold Sore Relief is an effective drug to cut down the period of cold sores. It has been clinically proven. The infected person must use this product at the first symptom of a breakout. The infected people can use this product for the relief of blistering, itching, pain, and tingling associated with cold sores and fever blisters. The active ingredient of this product is zincum oxydatum. The net weight of the product is 0.25 oz. (7.1 g).

Numerous people who have painful and ugly oral fever blisters have desired for a wonderful pill that would cure their cold sores. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just granted a new suggestion for a drug that may make these dreams to come true. American Academy of Dermatology has reported that people who had consumed a one-day course of treatment with Valtrex� (valacyclovir HCl) caplets shown faster healing of cold sore outbreaks. The FDA has sanctioned valacyclovir HCl as an effective medicine for the treatment of cold sores in healthy adults.

This is the first oral antiviral drug that was effectively used against cold sores, and it has been proven that the infected people got relief in one day, and has also been proven to cut down the period of a cold sore outbreak.

GlaxoSmithKline has also confirmed that valacyclovir HCl is effective against cold sore and it cures cold sores in one or two day in some cases. However, the average duration for curing cold sore using valacyclovir HCl was 5.2 days in most cases. Some side effects have also been recorded in some people. Very commonly reported side effects were diarrhea, headache, and nausea. The clinical trials have proven that valacyclovir HCl is more effective than the topical medication.