medication used to treat cold sores
Treatment with medicines depends on whether you are having a first outbreak or a recurrent outbreak or are trying to prevent future outbreaks. When treating a first outbreak of cold sores, oral antiviral medicines may reduce pain and slightly improve healing time.For treatment of recurrent cold sores, the following medicines may reduce the severity and duration of the outbreak:old Sores-Treatment Overview. There is no cure for cold sores, nor is there a cure for the herpes simplex virus (HSV) that causes them.