Taking traditional chinese medicines are also good for the common cold. This form of medication is more holisticas most of the ingredients are natural herbs.
Precaution must be taken to ensure its prescribed by a licenced chinese medicine doctor only. Maintaining health is better than cure.
I have been taking a zinc tablet with breakfast for over 30 years. I am now 64 and have only taken three sick days from work in 23 years. Zinc builds up the immune system over years, not just when you have a cold.
Zinc also assits with healthy skin and aids healing. Agreed on getting zinc from food rather than pills but must say that my aunt has been using the lozenges for colds and it seems to work for her also! Zinc absolutely works for me. I moved from NY to Singapore and was suffering lots of skin infections and colds. My housekeeper in Singapore taught me the trick of Zinc and Vitamin C. I was skeptical at first, but decided to give it a try. For the non-believers of zinc, good luck to you.
I keep a sealed bag of lozenges on-hand. As soon as I feel post nasal drip, I start taking them. As advertised, the duration and severity are, at minimum, cut in half. They work very, very well! We agree that this Cochrane meta-analysis received far too much media attention with unsafe consequences. National coverage will lead to millions of people taking a dangerous additive in hopes of stopping a cold. Far more convincing data are required before the public can be told that zinc has any beneficial effect.
However, no one in the studies reported serious side effects, and the authors point out that zinc has been shown to be safe and well tolerated in quantities up to mg a day for months at a time in clinical trials unrelated to the common cold.
For these reasons, short-term doses of up to mg a day are unlikely to be harmful for most people, says lead author Dr. Merrill Christensen, professor of nutritional science at Brigham Young University, is more cautious. He was not involved in the new review.
In a larger meta-analysis of zinc for the common cold from , side effects including nausea were common. Christensen says that people should aim to get the recommended daily amount of nutrients, including zinc, for overall health. But he also recommends staying below the upper limit set by the government and getting as many nutrients as possible from whole foods. Some also contain ingredients such as citric acid, which interact with zinc molecules to make them less available in the body.
In the meantime, he recommends that common-cold sufferers try zinc acetate lozenges themselves to see if they notice a faster-than-usual improvement. Learn how cookies are used on our site.
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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Bad taste has been a common complaint of zinc lozenges. In the study carried out by Dr. In addition, the experiences of bad taste were mostly such minor that they did not reduce the average use of zinc lozenges when compared with the placebo group.
Even if taste may prevent the use of zinc lozenges by certain individual patients, wide segments of people do not seem to experience strong discomfort from the taste. Before zinc lozenges can be widely promoted for common cold treatment, the characteristics of lozenges that are clinically efficacious should be defined in detail," he says.
Materials provided by University of Helsinki. Original written by Miia Soininen. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
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