The duration of your cold sore
The herpes virus prefers an acid environment. Delaying the cold sore just a few days can get you through that important event. Applying ice as soon as you feel that first tingle or itch will greatly reduce or delay the cold sore. The cold sore virus needs a warm, moist environment. Provided you do not get a secondary bacterial infection, the duration of your cold sore could be three to four weeks. Your body knows how to heal a cold sore and will do so without any additional help or expensivecold sores on lips treatment. Once at the surface, it will create new virus through its replication procedure thus producing the cold sore blister. When the conditions are favorable, the virus will head to the surface along your nerve fibers.
