Re: if your lips peel this is a must read!

Uggghhh I thought I had beat it back last summer but it is back now, so frustrating. No drugs or smoking, only occasional drinking, but, I do fight IBS w/constipation. The paleo diet seems to help with digestive issues.

I had started working outside a lot last May and then started having fever blisters much more often than usual and they were more intense than usual. So, I started taking a high dose L-Lysine like 2 500mg tabs 2x per day. I must have done that for 2 or 3 weeks until I stopped getting the fever blisters. Around that same time my lips stopped peeling and the skin was normal again finally; I had tried everything for a year or longer and nothing worked. I thought it must have been caused by a lysine deficiency, but, now probably the over the last 6-8 weeks it has started up again and I've been taking the lysine again for at least a couple of weeks but it doesn't seem to be working this time. I'll keep up with the high dose for another week or so in case, but, now I'm wondering if it was the high doses of vitamin D that I was getting from working outside that cured the EC rather than the lysine... It had to be something.

Also, for regularity if I take a decent probiotic and a couple of aloe GEL caps everyday I don't have such a problem.

I also went on daily coconut oil several weeks ago and went thru a detox from that. I started with 1 tsp per day and worked up to 1 Tblsp per day now. It has caprylic acid which kills yeast and other microorganisms. Tweet