Many of us had painful experiences with fever blisters, also called cold sores or herpes. Most of us know that once we have the herpes simplex virus, we will always carry it with us. Like a ticking bomb that could explode any moment…

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Manuka Honey as Cold Sore and Fever Blister Treatment

There is no product on the market today that can permanently eliminate the virus that causes fever blisters! However Manuka Honey can help shorten the time period that you suffer from it and relieve the pain.

There are four major benefits of Manuka Honey as natural fever blister treatment:

1. Manuka Honey can strengthen the immune system and thereby helps preventing cold sores and fever blisters in the first place.
2. Sometimes a fever blister eruption is unavoidable. In this case the antibacterial property of Manuka Honey prevents the herpes virus infection from turning into a bacterial infection.
3. Since fever blisters and cold sores are little (open) wounds, Manuka Honey can help cure them faster due to its wound healing qualities. At the same time Manuka Honey soothes the pain of the fever blister or cold sore.
4. Manuka Honey is a 100% natural product. That is why it offers relief without known side effects.

How does the antibacterial activity of Manuka Honey work?

The antibacterial activity in regular honey is due to four major processes or qualities: the osmotic effect, the acidity of honey, the production of hydrogen peroxide in honey and the phytochemical factor…

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How does Manuka Honey help to cure the fever blister wound?

Manuka Honey as natural wound care and fever blister treatment:

It is a myth that a wound needs to be dry in order to heal. A moist environment has proven to provide the best circumstances for the fast healing of wounds. In order to heal, a wound also needs to be nurtured so that skin tissue can grow back.

Another myth about wounds is that the formation of a scab promotes healing. A scab is nothing else but dead cell material that will actually deprive the tissue underneath of the nutrients and water that it needs to re-grow.

The advantages of Manuka Honey over conventional wound treatments:

Other than conventional antiseptics Manuka Honey creates a moist environment when applied to a wound. Although Manuka Honey keeps the wound moist, it keeps bacteria in control and can even destroy them. Therefore Manuka Honey as a fever blister cure can be effectively applied to sterilize the wound caused by the fever blister. As opposed to other medications Manuka Honey has absolutely no known side effects.

The hydrogen peroxide in Manuka Honey together with its natural acidity provides an antibacterial strength. The acidity of honey also helps in the healing process.

Unlike other wound dressings Manuka Honey also nurtures the wound in the moist environment it creates and thereby helps the tissue to grow back. Manuka Honey provides the wound with amino acids, vitamins and sugars. The vitamin C in it for example might play a major role in collagen synthesis. Manuka Honey creates a protective barrier over the new growing tissue. Therefore Manuka Honey might help healing a fever blister faster than conventional treatments do.

Honey consists of 84% fructose and glucose (sugar) and 15-21% water. The sugar molecules and the water molecules interact strongly so that bacteria have not enough water available for growth. In a wound this causes an outflow of lymph that provides nutrients to the re-growing tissue. This is called osmotic effect. The osmotic effect also increases the oxygen content in a wound and therefore speeds up the healing process. Oxygen promotes the blood circulation which in turn is needed to cure wounds caused by fever blisters.

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