How To Treat A Fever Blister
There are, generally speaking, two options when it comes to fever blister treatment. The first option represents the treatment of physical discomfort. While fever blisters are not especially painful typically, they can be somewhat painful and can certainly be uncomfortable. There are means however for controlling the discomfort and pain that fever blisters may generate. Applying ice to fever blister outbreaks is one way.
Rather than applying ice, some people may prefer applying a hot compress to a fever blister outbreak. The hot compress can provide the same soothing experience that ice may provide. For fever blister pain, taking aspirin, ibuprofen, or other pain relief medication can help. While ice, heat, or pain relief can help make any symptoms fever blisters cause more endurable, it’s important to note that these treatments do not affect the fever blister outbreak itself. This is to say that using these remedies will not clear a fever blister outbreak, or shorten fever blister outbreak duration.
Most people seeking to treat a fever blister outbreak are more concerned with ending the outbreak or shortening its duration versus simply treating pain or discomfort. There are treatments available for treating fever blister outbreaks. Typically these treatments come packaged as cold sore treatment. In fact fever blister and cold sore are simply different terms for the exact same condition.
There are various over-the-counter fever blister treatments. Most of these treatments claim only to shorten the duration of a fever blister outbreak, though some also claim to reduce the possibility of future outbreaks as well. Various prescription treatments are also available for the treatment of fever blister outbreaks. As with over-the-counter remedies, prescription fever blister treatments focus primarily on treating active outbreaks versus reducing future outbreaks.
It should be noted that the body’s natural immune response will eventually clear fever blister outbreaks. This is to say that fever blister outbreaks will eventually clear on their own with no external treatment whatsoever. However, outbreaks that receive treatment will clear much more quickly than outbreaks that are not treated.
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