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Cold Prevention. Zinc and Colds. About Homeopathy. Cold or Allergies. Zicam contains zinc as its active ingredient. There has been some evidence to suggest that taking zinc right at the onset of a cold might shorten its duration a little bit, from 7 days to 6.
But as Dr. Terence Davidson from UC San Diego explained , if you look at the more rigorous studies, the effect vanishes. Zinc turns out to have some worrisome side effects, too. Zicam's nasal spray and gel versions were linked to a serious loss of the sense of smell anosmia , which led the FDA to issue a warning letter in Unlike real drugs, though, Zicam has not been evaluated by the FDA for effectiveness or safety. How do they get away with it?
Airborne's products also now include a disclaimer:. It claims on the package to relieve cold symptoms. It contains chemicals that can be toxic. Interestingly, there have been a few experiments on this extract, some of which showed a small positive effect.
However, a review of these studies reported that their quality was "very low," that all of them were conducted by Umcka itself, and that all of them were conducted in the same region of Russia. And remember: homeopathic preparations are so dilute that they contain little, and sometimes none, of the active ingredient. But Americans take them in huge quantities to treat the common cold. Hours later Matrixx put out a press release or statement, then another one and another one.
Each time the rhetoric got hotter with Matrixx saying it'll do what the FDA says even though it strongly disagrees with the agency's action and was completely blindsided by it. They eventually even tweeted about the recall on the Zicam Twitter page which up until now had basically been used to hand out coupons. At first, the shares fell 55 percent before being halted for trading for several hours yesterday. When they reopened later in the afternoon they fell 70 percent. This morning they're up slightly.
Scott Henry at Roth Capital Partners, which makes a market in the stock, says the potential liability threatens the company's existence. Today, the company insists the product is safe and it hopes to meet with the FDA to prove that. ET today.
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