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Does Smoking Effect Cold Sores?
i have a cold sore coming on and i want to know if smoking pot will have an effect on the healing process?? like will it run my body down? or obstruct the other medz? i am taking oral medz aswell as OTC cream. i am not trying to use pot as a medicine just as a stress reliever ...
Tue, 7 Jan 2020
Hello,
Hydrocarbons of smoke do affect the healing process of the body via dampening immune response. Though body will not run down as it gives you a sense of pleasure and well being by release of nicotine. Obstruction of other medicines also will not happen unless they are being consumed in form of aerosol form which requires respiratory route to enter the body.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
Hydrocarbons of smoke do affect the healing process of the body via dampening immune response. Though body will not run down as it gives you a sense of pleasure and well being by release of nicotine. Obstruction of other medicines also will not happen unless they are being consumed in form of aerosol form which requires respiratory route to enter the body.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
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