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Please tell me the reason for keeping a cold sore moist?
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No reason: Instead of keeping a cold sore moist, there are oral and topical anti-herpes medicine to shorten the length of the sore as well as topical anesthetics to reduce pain.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Helps healing: Keeping a cold sore moist allows new skin to grow in over the sore once the acute infection has passed.
Answered 9/28/2016
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