One of the big problems with cold sores is that once infected with the virus that causes them - herpes simplex virus I - we remain infected for life, and to date there has been no way to rid the body of the virus.
The virus lies in a dormant state for most of the time and we are symptom less, but when the immune system becomes compromised due to stress, viral infection, poor lifestyle habits or any other of the common triggers the virus re-awakes. At this state it replicates and moves towards the skin surface, where it causes cell damage.
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While there are treatments to disrupt the replication of the virus, there are not entirely effective and natural remedies have been shown to be equally effective, without the high cost and risk of unpleasant side effects.
However, there has recently been a big step forward in our understanding of cold sores. Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have made some key progress in understanding the dormant state and how it wakes. The hope is by designing an effective treatment that wakes the virus from its dormant state it can then be attacked by an anti-viral treatment such as acyclovir.
The anti-viral treatment is only effective when the herpes simplex virus is awake and replicating. Theoretically it should be possible to wake the virus by interfering with the process that keeps it in the dormant state and once awake the anti-viral treatment should be able to attack the entire virus, ridding the body of it completely.
Once this happens the sufferer will experience no further cold sore outbreaks, and therefore this promises to be a giant leap forward in the field of cold sore treatments.
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