Flash news: science still doesn’t have a cure for the sniffles. But that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have something that’s quite close to a cure now – and that would be a zinc nutrition supplement. That’s exactly what a very large (and not to mention a very important) study has found out.  Popping zinc nutrition supplements when you are starting out with a cough, a cold and a heavy head can work wonders – far more than, say, chicken soup and steam inhalation. If you act quickly, and pop a tablet or something with zinc in it within a day of having a runny nose come on, you’ll find that your cold is no longer as severe as it would have been, and you will have it go away far sooner too.

There was a study three years ago in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that said that if you took zinc lozenges right after you started feeling a runny nose or something come on, the length of time you were stuck with the cold would be cut down to three or four days. If coughing came along with it, it would go away in two days. However (you knew there was a "however" coming along, didn’t you), these studies  seem to have been meant strictly for doctors and researchers. There is no mention in these articles about what brands of zinc nutrition supplements they recommend. They don’t even say anything about the kind of dosage they recommend, the kind of form it should take or how long you should take it. Doctors and researchers have yet to make their minds up about how exactly zinc acts to bring people the relief needed and are still not sure of the kind that works best.

Before you head over to your local drugstore to look for over-the-counter zinc nutrition supplements to try to work the dose out yourself, you probably should think a moment about how experts believe that the kind of zinc content in these supplements that you get over-the-counter tends to be far from uniform or even effective. They come with all kinds of formulations, they are flavored, and there is no real law that tries to work with the manufacturers to tell them what works best. There are just so many binders and taste-inducing things added to these over-the-counter products that pretty often, the zinc doesn’t get through. It’s just an elaborate boiled sweet.

But, you might attempt to copy what the studies did. They usually used zinc acetate lozenges, each one of which contained 12 to 14 mg of zinc. And they made the subjects take these three times a day for four days. But don’t you go and use any zinc nasal sprays in an attempt to deliver the cure right where the problem is. It could destroy your sense of smell.

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