Healing scabs. - Herpes Message Board

CBGB · 03-19-2003, 07:41 PM

Does anyone know what the fastest way is to heal a cold sore after it turns into a scab? Would it be something like neosporin or polysporin?

TheOneInFour · 03-19-2003, 10:21 PM

Zinc-based ointments are often good, as they heal skin irritations quickly. I think you can get one of the "sporins" with zinc added, and the "sporins" also will fight the localised skin infection (just won't have effect on the virus itself).

1in4

mrwindow · 03-22-2003, 02:24 PM

I had a question about scabs too... Does the scab form from the middle of the blister out or from the outter edge of the blister center???

Alot of websites say it 'scabs over' but Im not sure what they ment..

TheOneInFour · 03-24-2003, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by mrwindow:
I had a question about scabs too... Does the scab form from the middle of the blister out or from the outter edge of the blister center???

Alot of websites say it 'scabs over' but Im not sure what they ment..

Since my OBs are on my backside, I've never observed in detail how the healing progression works for me. And I suspect the progression of healing and what it looks like is probably different for different people, and not everyone scabs over anyway. I would think that would happen only for external blisters that were "wet" to begin with, which not all of them are. What difference would you interpret depending on whether the scab starts at the edges versus the middle?

TheOneInFour