Question:
I’ve been laid up for the past couple days with a cold/flu thing. Giveme some orange juice and chicken soup and I can deal with that. Thismorning I was coughing up things that would scare HR Geiger himself.Even that I can deal with. Now I feel the stirrings of a cold sore. THATjust will not do.

Are any of you aware of anything that can head off a cold sore? Oranything that will make it go away quickly? Aside from the unfortunatemisinterpretation that could be made about its presence, it just won’tlook nice.

On the plus side though, this is the first cold I have weathered with mynose ring. It’s less of a pain to deal with than I thought it would be.

Answer: Okay, this is one of the few home remedies my mum believes in, and, ickytasting as it is, it WORKS. What ya do is ya take some baking soda (or isit powder? The arm & hammer kind), and ya stick it over your canker sore.Ya leave it on there as long as you can stand it (your mouth weill start tosalivate and then you'll taste it and it's disgusting). Then, you rinsethat out several times with really strong salt water. It's gotta be themost disgusting thing in the world, but it works really well. Your cankersore will dissapear quite quickly. Really bad, big canker sores may neederpeated treatments...