There’s a flu shot for the flu. But what about colds? Does anything work?
Let’s find out. This is Healthcare Triage.
For those of you who would like to read more, you could start with one of our first two books. Here are additional references:
- Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold (updated here)
- Evaluation of echinacea for the prevention and treatment of the common cold: a meta-analysis
- Garlic for the common cold
- Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
- Zinc for the common cold
- Warnings on Three Zicam Intranasal Zinc Products
- Does Airborne Really Stave off Colds?
- Airborne Agrees to Pay $23.3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over False Advertising of its “Miracle Cold Buster”
- Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro