Vetoquinol Viralys L-Lysine Supplement for Cats - Cats & Kittens of All Ages - Immune Health - Sneezing, Runny Nose, Squinting, Watery Eyes - Flavored Lysine Powder

I work w/ my local VSA ( voluntary services for animals). I took in a few kittens that's eyes were almost completely shut with crust & their little noses were covered in crust & mucus. A pitiful site :( . I quickly took all 4 to the vet within 24 hrs. WELL, after they said it was "Feline herpes", (an upper respiratory infection that doesn't go away but can be controlled) IT ended up costing me close to $800!! With Vet costs, testing costs, & the "Wonderfully expensive" medication they gave me for Each cat, That helped some but not much!! They had liquid meds, meds that had to be put INTO their eyes like 4xs a day, & some other antibiotics. It was awful , & seriously it didn't help much at all. It lessened it some, but they needed the meds constantly! I looked on the Internet for any info I could find & found out about LYSINE !! I really thought it was a bunch of "bull" but was willing to TRY anything! I 1st bought a paste & a gel- the cats hated it. I then bought this powder. I mixed it into wet food ( not too much or they taste it!) & they ate it! After a week I noticed all their symptoms were really improving! I had STOPPED the Vets meds as the cost was killing me & not really helping them. After a MONTH all the cats were totally better, no crusty gooey eyes, no crusty nose, sneezing, ALL GONE!! I was amazed!! I studied it more, the use of L LYSINE & it's effects. It surpresses what makes the Herpes virus flare up in the system, so taking it on a Dailey basis means you won't get the flare up & the full blown symptoms! It also works in humans as well. I kept the kittens & have given them forms of LYSINE for 2 yrs now & they have NOT had another flare up since! If I stopped it for a few months, I noticed some sneezing & gunk in their eyes in the 1st year & quickly put them back on it! With 5 cats ( I had a 3 yr old when I took these in, she caught feline herpes from them as well!) it's kinda hard to make sure each one gets 250 - 500 mg Ea. When they eat out of each others bowls! So I just put a scoop into 1 3 oz can of wet, feed them 3 cans & it works great. I tried the TREATS, most cats don't care for them, also many brands you have to give each cat like 10 treats 1-2 x a day! Woa! Or another brand the treats were huge! Only 2 a day because they were the size of a golf ball! Lol. So, the cat powdered LYSINE works good, it's flavored mixes well in food & good to start on. I had no luck putting this on DRY food, I have heard many ppl do that but my cats wouldn't eat the food & most just fell to bottom of dish/bowl. I also bought & use HUMAN grade LYSINE 500 mg tablets & crush them up w/ a spoon & mix into wet food. This is VERY cost effective! It taste stronger than this flavored powder, so use a good wet food to mix with & you wont have a problem. My cats got use to it fast. You can also buy LYSINE powder in BULK on here, it's human grade & already finely crushed up. It works GREAT & cost MUCH less. Plus I like that it's "human" grade. I now can skip months at a time with no LYSINE & they still get no flare ups. This LYSINE is a God send! I recommend this powder if starting out, it's flavored and cats will take it well. But cost wise, the pills, tablets, capsule at your store or on here ( cheaper!) are strongest & the best I've found( crush up finely) . bitter, but cats really don't "taste" bitter I've heard. Either WAY or BRAND you choose it will all but cure your cats of the virus, you won't have huge vet bills & expensive meds that are worthless. 5 cats taking LYSINE on & off for 2 yrs and they have NO MORE SYMPTOMS & are very happy healthy spoiled kitty's... So please do yourself, your wallet, & your cats a favor & put them on a LYSINE regimen of 250 mg a day OR - 500 mg 1-2 x's a day for a flare up or to start off with. Once symptoms subside, you can stay with 250 mg a day to keep them away for good! Btw, In order to replicate & cause FLARE UPS , in humans & cats the herpes virus needs "ARGININE" another amino acid such as LYSINE . when LISINE is taken at higher doses, it prevents the amino acid ARGININE from over producing & hence preventing outbreaks of the herpes virus. So just check your pets FOODS, TREATS etc for any ARGININE ( L-ARGININE ) in them as this will ADD to your problem!! There ARE foods with this in the ingredient list I've found, so just FYI to be safe. Hope this helps someone with the problems I went through & learned from along the way!! :) Jenn ~

Please do not feed this to your cat.In November 2015, Bol and Bunnik published their study in BioMed Veterinary Central Research reviewing experiments testing the effectiveness of lysine on viruses in cats. You can find the study and read it by searching their names and the words lysine and cats. It is free online via NIH.Bol and Bunnik reviewed experiments with cats and lysine supplements. They found no benefit to the cats because lysine had no effect on the viruses. "In short, we can conclude that feeding lysine-enriched food to cats was unable to prevent or reduce viral shedding, seroconversion or decrease the frequency or severity of clinical signs caused by FHV-1....we conclude that lysine supplementation in cats is not effective for the prevention or treatment of ocular or upper respiratory disease caused by FHV-1, and may even have an enhancing effect on viral replication." In other words, lysine can harm your cat and does not help your cat recover from a flare of upper respiratory virus. Your cat will improve on his or her own.Bol and Bunnik's review of studies shows that lysine has not been shown to affect arginine levels in cats---and if it DOES affect arginine, the effect on the cat would be harmful. Arginine is essential for cats' metabolism of protein wastes (ammonias) to urea---in other words, it is vital to healthy kidney function. You should not feed your cat anything that impedes or that potentially could impede kidney function. Kidney disease is worse than a goopy eye.

Our kitty is 17, and she has feline herpes that flairs from stress. Thankfully it isn't chronic, but when she's stressed, it's taken her to serious illness from being congested and not eating. I have bags and bags of lysine treats and bites and snacks that she has taken one look at, and snubbed. So when I opened this, and smelled it, I thought haha - no way. It's not a bad smell, but there is a particular odor to it that I thought would put her off. This is a cat that can hold liquid meds in her cheek and spew them back at you 4 minutes later. But this? We sprinkle it on her wet food, add a tablespoon of water or two to help her kidneys, mix it up until it looks like....cat-food-soup (I know - gag), and she is all over it. Truly amazing. And yes, I know - I'm telling you that we've finally found something we can get in her, but please know it has also helped her tremendously. She just had a tooth extracted, and while that went very well, she started sniffing and sneezing and having runny eyes and nose 2 days after. We give it to her every day, but when that started, we went with a scoop and a half in the morning and evening (a half scoop more at each dose) and she cleared up within two days without signs of loss of appetite or thirst. She is peppy, bossy, and according to our vet, in incredible shape for a 17 year old with early signs of kidney failure and lifelong feline herpes. She can now chase her tail without stopping to sneeze when she catches it. That's cat victory, is it not??

My young cat recently developed a weird cough/sneeze that was really severe. She was sneezing up a lot of thick mucous, and having trouble eating because of the mucous - it would make her vomit. Took her to the vet and they determined she has some kind of a virus (likely the feline herpes virus or something similar) bc this cough/sneeze/mucous keeps coming back right when she gets off of her antibiotics. But finally I added this lysine to her routine - adding it to her wet food 2x/day....and IMMEDIATELY her symptoms subsided. We were just about to start her on her 3rd round of a month long antibiotic treatment when we began with this -- and I called the vet the next day to cancel it because her symptoms had almost completely gone away. Within a week - the symptoms were completely gone. :) Just make sure you watch the dosage bc giving too much can cause diarrhea. We dealt with that too.