In the Nov./Dec. issue of The Saturday Evening Post, I read the answer to Ann Robinson's query on how much L lysine to take to avoid lever blisters but was astonished at the answer!

All through childhood and nay teen years, I had horrid fever blisters on my lip. My mother had lots of home remedies she tried; while none prevented them, some would shorten their duration.

Finally, as a wife and mother, a woman at the health store told me about L-lysine, and I began taking one 500 mg capsule daily, As long as I take it. I do not have a fever blister. If I forget, or am ill, I feel that old prickle in my lip and one comes. Then, taking one or rarely two of the capsules, its duration seems shorter. If I am ill and vomit the capsule, holding a piece of ice in a hanky on the blister takes the soreness away and shortens the duration also.

I have taken the L-lysine for at least 35 years. I am now 69 years old.

My oldest son also had fever blisters as a child, but has taken L-lysine (one a week) and no longer has them. He agrees with me that it would not be good to take a quantity of them judged on our weight. It is not necessary.

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Anthony, Kansas