Haha I am severely tempted to add it to my list for my Mum and Dad to bring over when they visit in June

Zilactin is what I was using. DAMN it smarts.

Compeed Coldsore plasters!!! I can't shout it loud enough! I have tried everything and they are absolutely fantastic. You will have to get someone to post them to you. They're not cheap but they're worth their weight in gold.

Damn it. Flederman now has a cold sore. I tried asking for Zovirax but you would think I was asking for heroin from the look I got. They advised Abreva, so that's what I have bought him.

He's now in quarantine. I've never had one and don't ever want one.

Lucky you.... An ex managed too pass one on many years ago to me and I now tend to get them following illness (found out they are known as fever blisters here because apparently a high temperature re-awakens the dormant virus)

Avoid chocolate, coffee, any substance that contains arginine as it arms the herpes virus. Avoid getting run down wherever possible. At the first sign of a coldsore (tingling) take 1000mg L-Lysine which inhibits the viral activity. This has often stopped the development of a coldsore in its tracks.

They are linked to Bell's Palsy too. Flederman had an attack of this a couple of years ago, on the same side that the cold sore always appears.

Evil things.

Not so easy to do when an emigrant. I'll look into the other stuff, thanks