# ? for fellow cold-sore sufferers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fellow-cold-sore-sufferers/11914>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 1999, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fellow-cold-sore-sufferers/11914 "1999-12-09T19:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fellow-cold-sore-sufferers/11914/21 "1999-12-11T05:21:00Z")

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No cold sores, here, but I get canker sores with a certain dreadful irregularity.

Things that aggravate/hasten the onset of canker sores:

lack of sleep  
salt

Things that seem to alleviate canker sores

sleep  
Vitamin C (orange juice, etc.)  
Lactinex® (an OTC drug usually found near the pharmacist’s counter rather than with the cold sore medicine; sometimes kept behind the counter although you do not need a prescription)

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Tom~

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