If there is a cold on the face, then much becomes inaccessible. It’s painful to smile, you can’t kiss, and wait until it passes by itself, too long. Where does this unpleasant skin manifestation come from, and how can I get rid of it? Unfortunately, this is not a cosmetic issue at all.
What does a cold look like and what is it?
Once you sit in a draft, get a little cold or get caught in the rain, painful vesicles filled with a clear liquid appear on the lip, under the nose, or even in the nostril. Touching becomes painful, a pronounced edema appears, and these unpleasant sensations last quite a long time. On the face, a cold at first looks like a small pimple, more often - several bubbles nearby. But soon they turn into a painful sore.
A cold is called the external manifestation of herpes, and in most cases we are talking exclusively about symptomatic treatment. The herpes virus is present in the organisms of most people, but if the immune system is normal, then external manifestations can not wait. That is why herpetic sores are called colds - weakened by hypothermia, the body is no longer able to contain the virus constantly present in it, and now you can notice the characteristic vesicles on the lip.
How to cure a cold on the face
If a cold has already appeared, then you need to worry about not getting bigger. The problem is the annoying debilitating pain, which is not so strong as to exhaust, but at the same time, the arms reach out and rub the painful vesicles. They are easily injured, an infection gets into the wound, and an even more painful edema can quickly form. Because of this, a small sore can quickly increase, "creep" into neighboring tissues.
A pronounced cold on the face needs intensive symptomatic treatment. Combined therapies work great - you need to prevent infection from getting into the wound, reduce pain as much as possible and help the body cope with the raging virus. For this, both folk remedies and pharmaceuticals are used. With herpetic conjunctivitis, antiviral eye drops are prescribed.
The most effective folk remedies
If a cold is already visible on your face, then lotions of warm tea, black or green help perfectly. You can take a tea bag or moisten a piece of cotton wool with tea leaves. You need to check that the tea was warm, without sugar. The tannins and tannins contained in tea reduce pain and relieve itching, soothe the skin and slightly dry the vesicles. Tea tree oil, pharmacy chamomile extract help well.
An unappetizing, but very effective remedy is earwax. Fresh sulfur is applied to the itchy place even before the appearance of a pronounced ulcer. Surprisingly, after such a procedure a cold may not appear at all. The ear discharge contains sulfur and silicon, it is these substances that prevent the manifestation of herpes.
Honey and propolis, which are often recommended as a panacea, can be used only if there is no allergy to bee products. Do not smear a cold with toothpaste, this can provoke an allergic reaction and seriously aggravate the situation. Although toothpaste can provide temporary relief, it is so unpredictable that it is better to give preference to traditional methods of treatment.
Modern medicine
Pharmaceutical companies offer several types of antiviral ointments aimed specifically at eliminating the external manifestations of herpes. Creams "Acyclovir" and "Zovirax", other drugs of a similar type work best at the initial stage of skin rashes caused by the herpes virus.
If a face hurts with a cold, it is necessary to take into account the localization of sensations. The characteristic “tickling” along the edge of the lips or on the mucous membrane of the nostrils with a high degree of probability indicate precisely herpes. If you have any doubts and an unusual place for pain symptoms, you should consult a doctor to clarify the diagnosis and correct treatment.
Colds on the face of a child
The main problem with treating children is that babies scratch sores, introduce an infection, and the problem gets worse at times. While the child cannot clearly tell where and how it hurts, it is possible to recognize and diagnose the disease only after a cold has appeared on the face. In this case, parents simply do not have time to apply preventive measures and engage in early treatment.
In order to remove ulcers as quickly as possible, it is necessary to prevent scratching of herpes, or at least prevent infection. To do this, you need to use pharmaceuticals that not only eliminate skin manifestations, but also relieve the obsessive itching, which causes the child to scratch his face.
Other colds
Herpes is not always the case. If the face swells with a cold, and the pain is localized not on the edge of the mucous membranes, but on the cheek, temple and clearly “gives” to the eye, then there may be inflammation of the trigeminal nerve. This is a serious disease that can become clearly chronic in nature, resulting from various negative effects, from trauma and infection to hypothermia, exacerbated by the herpes virus.
Hypothermia often leads to exacerbations of all kinds of inflammatory processes, usually people say that it is bloated, and this literally explains everything: conjunctivitis, sinusitis, sinusitis, acne. The reason is not a cold in itself, it's just an additional provoking factor that reveals an existing problem.
Where else is the common cold?
Happy are people who are dominated by the delusion that a cold can “jump up” exclusively on the lip or under the nose. Genital herpes, which is caused by a virus of the second type, is much more unpleasant. The mucous membranes of the genitals and adjacent tissues are as susceptible to viral damage as the facial ones. Genital herpes can be transmitted during unprotected sex, so you need to understand the responsibility to a partner or partner.
Herpetic rashes can appear on any part of the body, it is just that the mucous membranes are the first to respond to an increase in the concentration of the virus in the body, and if you do not pay attention to it and do not care about the general state of the immune system, the condition will worsen.
Preventative measures
You can get herpes in any way: both sexually and by simple household contacts. That is why it is difficult to find a person who would not be a carrier of the virus. But to be a carrier does not mean to get sick, and if the immunity is strong enough, you can never wait for the symptoms of the disease. To avoid unpleasant skin rashes, it is necessary to strengthen the immune system, abandon bad habits.
Self-medication can become more dangerous than the absence of any treatment. You get a cold on your face - how to treat it? Thousands of people ask themselves this question and, instead of visiting a doctor, they begin to take antiviral drugs uncontrollably. This can have a positive effect, and the likelihood of skin manifestations is minimized. But the virus at the same time acquires resistance to medications and in case of exacerbation it will become not only more difficult to choose a therapy, immunity can seriously shake.
If herpes appears on the lips more than four to five times a year, painful vesicles and sores appear on the genitals or simply on the surface of the skin, then you must undergo a complete physical examination to exclude diseases with similar symptoms, as well as an appointment with an immunologist. Comprehensive treatment will even out the amount of virus in the body and achieve significant improvement.
In other cases, it will be sufficient to use antiviral ointments when the initial symptoms appear: characteristic itching and burning in the place where groups of vesicles will soon appear. The early use of ointments for herpes prevents the appearance of skin rashes.