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My cold sore turned in to a cut on my lip and it keeps splitting open and bleeding. what can i do to make it heal?

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Dr. Gregory LaMorte answered

Specializes in Periodontics

Try this: If this does not help, then please see a dentist: try putting vitamin e on the cut. To do this you break open a gel cap and put the oily vitamin on the cut several times a day. If it does not go away, have it checked.

Answered 9/28/2016

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A member asked:

My cold sore turned in to a cut on my lip and it keeps splitting open and bleeding. what can i do to make it heal?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Gregory LaMorte answered

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