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Valtrex (valaciclovir) has three main uses:
- Cold Sores
- Treatment for genital herpes (preventing it, treating the initial outbreaks of it and treatment of herpes episodes).
- Treatment of herpes Zoster.
No matter how few outbreaks you get, each one can be painful and annoying. Valtrex is the first and only once-daily herpes medication clinically proven to reduce the number of outbreaks you get. In fact, many people on daily therapy with Valtrex may go a year outbreak-free.
A clinical study among people who had 6 or more outbreaks a year found that over half of those people were outbreak-free after taking Valtrex for 6 months. After a year, over one third were outbreak-free. Results are from 403 healthy adults in a large clinical study of Valtrex 1 g once daily.
In one study, people younger than 50 years of age with shingles were treated with Valtrex within three days of the beginning of a rash. In people who were not treated with the drug, it took three days for the formation of new blisters to stop. For the people who were treated with Valtrex, the blisters stopped forming one day sooner.
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