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Cold sore removed with Nail Polish Remover

The fastest, most effective way to get rid of a cold sore that I have found is constant application of acetone based nail polish remover. Apply hourly with a Q-tip and then cover with Abbreva.

Take care not to get the cold sore wet and immediately upon exiting the shower dry it with the nail polish remover and the Abbreva. This should dry it out within 24 hours.

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its great! Comments By: roger on 2010-04-12 well i got 3 huge fever blisters last night very painful i tried putting bleach and alcohol on it and it wasnt seeming to work so i look online and see this remedy and put nail polish remover on and its already drying up and scabbing and its only been a couple hours it amazing thank god!!   For itching/hurting Comments By: Anon on 2010-04-14 I had just come down with my first cold sore (yuck) on Friday, but didn't know it was a cold sore so didn't do anything about it. Today (Tuesday) it wasn't overly puffy -just a bit- but looked like a brownish yellowish scab and itched and burned like crazy. It burned so bad and nothing, not even Carmex or Neosporin helped....it seemed to make it worse. Then I stumbled across the nail polish remover remedy. I was skeptical at first, especially since most people wrote that it worked best at the onset, or first 'tingle,' but due to the pain figured I would give it a try. I am so glad I did. Just a few seconds after applying the itch and burn was completely gone. COMPLETELY GONE!!!!!! I can't really comment on appearance yet, it's only been about twenty minutes, but, for me, just the acetone taking away the itch and burn was more than enough. Hopefully, now that I know what a cold sore is, at the first sign of one next time I will be dabbing on the acetone. Oh, and in the time it took for me to type this....the color of my lip returned to normal and the cold sore is barely visible. And, just to reiterate.....I only dabbed on the remover, twice within about 10 minutes, using a clean Qtip each time. The burning wasn't nearly as bad as the itch and burn. This is an awesome miracle cure!   i agree:) Comments By: anon on 2010-04-19 i agree i have been dealing with cold sores since i could remember, applied the nail polish remover and think it really helps to dry out the sore, you can actually feel the acetone eating away at the cold sore i give it a two thumbs up!!!   woo! Comments By: Manny on 2010-04-27 have been getting cold sores for years and have been prescribed all kinds of fancy ointments but nail polish works better than anything else ive tried. had the beginning of a cold sore last week where the sores had already formed, used nail polish remover right away and they were dried out in hours/!!   pretty sure but not quite Comments By: senior'10 on 2010-05-03 well i applied the nail polish remover with a q tip and left it on for about a min. and it started to burn like a mothafuker!! then i applied the abreeva...ima do it hourly and see what it does...i have high hopes for this tho =)   If you WANT to suffer, dont try npr!!! Comments By: NPR 100% supporter! on 2010-05-04 I get a cold sore about 1 a year around the time of the weather change to summer. Usually i have a tingleing warning the night before but not this time..i woke up yesterday at 730 with 3 small blisters and a slightly swollen lip...not big and crazy yet, but def visable. So i took 3000 mg of Lysine and then i put acetone nail polish remover on it every hour on the hour starting at 8am, and Abreva every 2 hours after the npr dried. i iced for 15 min 1 at 10 and again at 2...i continued this until about 7 ( i had a 1st date at 8)...i did NOT pop the blisters!...by 8 the swelling was gone, the blisters were BARELY visible...not at all noticable unless you know to look for them!!! Can you say fewsh?...normally by this time they would have doubled in size and been a complete ugly mess! My date went great! and I woke up this morning... GONE...yes REALLY!!! 1 blister i can still kind of feel slightly under the skin so i will continue with the npr and abreva today to insure it does not come back, but they are gone! Honestly there are no ugly side affects...you dont need to pop them and make them scab....just carefuly press with a npr soaked cotton ball or q-tip for 10-30 seconds every hour and follow with abreva...NO side affects, little to no burn...and the easiest, fastest method ever. NPR = 24hour results! I PROMISE!!!!   getting married and on the road! Comments By: Wedding cold sore on 2010-05-24 I am getting married this coming weekend and have so stressed getting ready for it,,,,, so it's no surprise that I woke up yesterday to the dreaded tingling. I had prepared with a valtrex prescrip, i got it filled but the cold sore got worse this morning! Added abreva which def made it even worse. I was given the new generic valtrex and was psyched bc it was cheaper- but it did NOT work. Now my fiance has gone to get me brand name valtrex as I apply Nail polish remover, I have to say after spending hundreds of dollars on these meds, the nail polish remover is giving the best results. Please god, make this go away- crossing my fingers for everyone else. This is just the worst!   Trying it out for the first time Comments By: Vj on 2010-06-04 Im starting to date this amazing guy and suddenly... as a tradition... BAM! cold sore right on the middle of my upper lip... F!!!! so I googled the hell out of this and found this forum. I've applied ice for a couple of minutes and now Nail polish remover every couple of minutes... It doesn't seem to be getting worse but I dont know if its working so hope it works!!! I do feel any kind of burn with the npr but the ice definitely reduces the swelling. I'll update later today.   amazing cold sore treatment Comments By: Natalie on 2010-06-14 after reading this article and hearing to use nail polish as an alternative tratment for the dreaded cold sore thought i had nothing to loose by trying this....so alas i gave it a go and have to say that Nail Polish Remover is my new Best Friend....i have suffered from cold sores for as long as i can remember they usually last for a week or more, in just 24hours its almost completely gone!!! it dries it up almost instantly......   used before Comments By: Laura hates cold sores on 2010-06-16 i used nail varnish remover before, and it worked wonders as i put it on when it first came. BUT, i woke up at my grandma's today with a bump. EW. Came home and put nail Vanish remover on it, then had to go to school, no one noticed it but it has now spread! So i poped it and put nail vanish remover on it, and hopefully it will go! 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