What is a home remedy for fever blisters?
Home remedies against fever blisters can be both food and simple behaviors. Their characteristic feature is that they are usually present in every household and can be used or prepared by anyone without authorization. For example, if the right type of tea is used as a mouth rinse, it is anti-inflammatory. If a spice like ginger is prepared correctly, it can support the immune system. If a person with a fever spares himself or herself and drinks enough fluids, this also counts as a household remedy, as he or she can take these measures without a doctor’s prescription.
These household remedies can be used
It should be emphasized from the outset that fever blisters do not normally require any treatment and will disappear by themselves within about 14 days. In addition, the duration of the blisters cannot be shortened when using household remedies, so that various remedies are more likely to alleviate symptoms. Besides the optical disfigurement caused by the blisters in the lip area, the skin symptoms often itch and wet.
Here it can help to apply zinc ointment in a thin film. The trace element zinc promotes the healing of wounds and calms inflamed skin. If pain in the lip area is more of a problem, various types of tea can alleviate symptoms.
In this case, the tea should be applied lukewarm at most. It is advisable to prepare the tea bag in a cup as if you were drinking tea and wait until the desired temperature is reached. Then the tea bag should be lightly wrung out and dabbed on the affected area.
Camomile tea or black tea are particularly suitable here, but in case of allergic reactions in the wound area, the application should be discontinued. All other household remedies such as honey or ginger work rather from the inside by strengthening the immune system. The most important behaviour in case of fever blisters is to avoid any contact with the affected area.
This means that those affected should neither touch the site themselves nor kiss others, so that no transmission of the pathogens through a smear infection can take place. Ginger can strengthen the immune system in fever blisters. It does not matter how the ginger is prepared and consumed.
Due to its essential oils and enzymes, it can act like a painkiller from within, although its effect is much less than that of commercially available preparations such as ibuprofen from the pharmacy. Nevertheless, it also has an anti-inflammatory effect and can relieve the symptoms of fever blisters. A salt rinse is not recommended for fever blisters.
Firstly, the salt solution irritates the sore spot on the lips. On the other hand, it is useless against the pathogen that causes fever blisters – the herpes virus. Thus, the use of a salt rinse has rather only negative effects.
It may dry out the wound in the first effect, but the salt locally increases the inflammatory reaction. The effect is that the wound becomes more wet than before. Whether honey is suitable as a household remedy against fever blisters depends entirely on how it is used.
As an addition to tea, it can strengthen the immune system from within through its contained enzymes. However, if it is applied directly to the blisters, it does not promote wound healing, as its sticky texture forms a non-air-permeable wound dressing under which the inflammation cannot heal well. Besides not few concerning react allergically to the external application of honey on wounds.
It is not recommended to use tea tree oil on fever blisters. Tea tree oil is a very strong smelling and strong essential oil. If it is applied to a skin area where the normal skin barrier is no longer intact, it irritates the wound tissue.
The oil promotes wound secretion and inflammatory cells recognize the essential ingredients as foreign matter. Reactively, the already existing inflammatory reaction is intensified and the skin changes in the lip area become larger. Toothpaste does not help against fever blisters.
The idea behind the use of toothpaste is that it eliminates bacteria and especially caries pathogens in the mouth and is therefore also effective against the pathogen that causes fever blisters. However, the pathogen of fever blisters is a virus (exactly: herpes virus), which is insensitive to toothpaste. Although toothpaste usually contains a small amount of zinc in the form of zinc chloride, this is not enough to promote wound healing when applied locally.
Thus it is an old wives’ tale that toothpaste helps against fever blisters.You can find further information under: Toothpaste against HerpesZinksalbe is in the right dosage a good household remedy for fever blisters. Zinc is an important trace element in our body that is sometimes involved in wound healing. However, it is important to always apply the zinc ointment only in a thin film so that zinc can be absorbed, but the ointment does not hinder the “breathing of the skin”.
In order for a weeping fever blister to heal, its fluid must be released to the outside and the tissue must be able to regenerate from within. This is not possible if the wound surface is always kept very “soft” by the ointment. The formation of crusts is important for the healing process to a certain extent.
Black tea is known for its tanning agents (= tannins). They are said to have an anti-inflammatory effect, which can also have a positive influence on the symptoms of fever blisters. It does not matter how the tannins are absorbed.
They can therefore be applied externally in the form of a soaked tea bag on the wound or internally as tea. When using them externally, however, care should be taken to avoid allergic reactions and if necessary, treatment should be discontinued. It is not advisable to use aloe vera or products with a high content of aloe vera on fever blisters.
Although the plant is said to have moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties, the absorption of its ingredients by the skin is very limited. If it is applied to a skin surface that is no longer intact, as is the case with burst fever blisters, those affected tend to react allergically to the plant. In addition, its ingredients have no effect on the pathogen causing the fever blisters.
