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From: avinash@ubvax.UUCP (Avinash Marathe)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Cure My Cold, Please
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:09:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 15:09:27 1985
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Keywords: Zinc


I heard that a double blind study done showed that sucking on a 23 mg.
zinc gluconate tablet, reduced the duration and severity of a cold.  The
tablet needed to be sucked (chewed) rather than swallowed.

Zinc gluconate tastes terrible so you have to be really motivated.  I've
heard that some of the health food stores carry flavored zinc tablets.

Anyone have references and more details about this study?

Avinash Marathe
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