Hello Stepanietx: Grain free foods yes. Lysine yes, currently 500 mg a day but people here say to consider increasing to 1000 mg a day during an outbreak. I am starting famciclovir today and the vet has ordered an immune system booster for me to try on Percy. Percy is currently just coming to the end of another outbreak. The antibiotics have cleared up the bacterial infection but he still has the clear runny eye with squint. Therefore I will do 7 days of famciclovir and see if that knocks the crap out of this flare-up. Then I start the immune system liquid from the vet and use the regular dose of lysine. Then at first squint I will double the lysine and give 5 days of the antiviral. Hey I am hoping by the time he is a year I will have less of this to deal with. And OMG I am going away on vacation with my husband for two weeks. My niece will cat sit as she lives with us for university. I sure hope her presence will help with the stress of me being gone. LOL, I told her she has to sleep with my cats because they are used to cuddling at night. eeeek.