Oh and lots of water. Zinc can help you heal faster (just 35 mg if you have it lying around) - as Zinc helps your body build white blood cells. White blood cells help fix your problems, but they *also* increase some of the swelling.... so you have to drink water to flush out the "leftover parts" that the white blood cells are throwing out into your bloodstream. Peeing a lot is good. The more your pee, the more of the tiny little broken bits are being flushed out of your body.