L-Lysine questions please.....

Zelskid said:

Cured Honey in 3 weeks

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howmany said:

Have bought the only L Lysine supplament I could for cat at local independent pet place. I would like to know how to measure the 250mg it recommended for cats on jar any one know so I can skip googling convertion charts[emoji]128512[/emoji]Also is anyone else wonder why you can get 90 1000mg tads for humans at 10$ and my little cat jar is 21$ For powder[emoji]128549[/emoji]

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webmiss said:

Hello,

My poor kitty has been sick with some kind of cold for almost two weeks now. I am wondering if it is herpes or something else. Both are vaccinated.

Both kitties started with only sneezing, never sneezing fits just multiple times a day enough to make me think " ok your sneezing a little too much" .

After about a week passed they both started with the head shaking, the older one had a little more runny eyes than usual ( they're both Himalayans) I took them both to the vet, ear swabs were clean. No fever. The vet put them on l-lysine.

Three days later the older one ( who about once a year gets an asthma/ allergy cough ) started coughing and you could hear the congestion. He also was swallowing a lot. I took him back to vet and he was given a steroid injection and antibiotic injection.

It is a week later and still little to no improvement. Cough has seemed to get a little less frequent, eyes are less runny. They both are now on amoxicillin .

Any thoughts?

I just feel so bad. The older one definitely seems under the weather. Still eats and drinks normally. No bathroom issues. The young one is totally fine, just still sneezing a little.

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Angels mommy said:

 
You can see the attachment I listed above for some good lysines on amazon. 

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Best Gift Ever said:

 
My 15 year old cat got a very bad cold about a month ago. Sniffling, sneezing, audible breathing and discharge from one eye. It's probably not surprising due to the fact my other cat has feline leukemia, is often sick and he grooms her often. The cold symptoms seemed to mostly go away on their own but then he sneezed blood. I took him to the vet and she gave him a long lasting antibiotic shot and some eye drops.

That sort of helped but he still had problems with his little eye and eventually he sneezed blood again. Back to the vet. She X-ray him to check for tumors and found none. His blood work was good for his age but he has low red blood cells, low platelets and somewhat elevated eosinophils. She said the low platelets could be causing him to sneeze blood but also suggested it could be caused by a polyp which would require surgery. She gave him Prednisone and I supplemented his diet with Braunschweiger for his blood. Some improvement but still lingering eye problems.

Then he started to get boogers on the side of his nose. I started giving him lysine and the boogers went away but still having problems with his one eye. So I started researching and decided to try Calendula. It's said to have antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. I searched and searched and finally found it in the loose spices at the local natural food store. I couldn't believe the price, only 19 cents for about an inch worth in a baggie. I made some tea with a half cup of water and a sizable pinch of Calendula. After just a few applications with an eyedropper and some I've given orally with a syringe, I found the eye to be dryer and when he did get discharge from his eye it was a lot less crusty and more like normal tears. He's still getting some crusty but not nearly as much. Much easier to clean off his face. A few days ago, I gently massaged a bulging spot over and between his eyes and there seemed to be quite a bit of edema there. Shortly after that he sneezed blood again but this time out of the other nostril and I went into panic mode again. I called the vet just before they were closing on Saturday. The vet at this point recommended a specialist. I can't afford that if there's any way possible to avoid it. Just to recap, at this point all she has tried is a long lasting antibiotic shot and eye drops, then prednisone and she's recommending a specialist. I'm not satisfied with that answer at all at this point. Then I discovered that after sneezing the blood, the edema in his face mostly went down so maybe it's a good thing?

So I've added some honey to the tea I put in his eye. It seems to be getting better, sometimes there's discharge and sometimes it's completely dry. His eyeball does seem to be off center as though there's some swelling between his eye and his nose but most of the visible swelling on his face has gone down and I wonder if the gentle massage just popped something that caused a little bleeding. I hope this ends well and I will have done a better job than the vet.

Now I see that you are recommending much higher dosages of the Lysine than I've been using and I will try that next. I found you can get powered Lysine at Powder City online. It's really cheap and it dissolves in water instantly and comes with a 500 mg scoop, so no guessing. I use a syringe to squirt it in both cat's mouth and neither one seems to object. In fact, the one with leukemia seems to beg for it, sometimes. When I gave it to my older cat, he licked the syringe afterwards. He objects to the oral calendula but not the Lysine.

I just hope something I've said will help someone else.

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