Reply #7: gosh, that is sad [View All]

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He must have had a latent herpes virus that was activated by the flu. From my experience with ocular herpes, I can say that taking lysine helps enormously, as does spraying colloidal silver in my eye (that is very off label). None of the antivirals helped me at all. I am wondering if anyone uses intravenous lysine for this? If this were my loved one, I would ask far and wide about this.

I keep lysine around my house to take whenever I feel any kind of virus coming on, though it has been many years since I have had to deal with it. Did my opthamologist tell me about it? No. Did he tell me to avoid chocolate, which makes it worse? No. I am not at all sure why they are not on the lysine bandwagon. This is something that really works to help suppress the herpes virus. And there are all kinds of confirming studies out there. Lysine would not be specific for the encephalitis, but for the herpes.

I am guessing that this is just a case of it being too cheap to be actually utilized. I bet there is such a thing as IV lysine.