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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold
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To: Street Walker who started this subject11/1/2003 3:36:22 PM
From: StockDung   of 5582
 
"Some in the medical community have recently expressed concerns about the use of intranasal zinc. In October of 2000 C. A. DeCook and A. R. Hirsch reported a case of a man who lost his sense of smell following use of this intranasal zinc preparation, and suggested further research on this product (225. Anosmia due to inhalational zinc: a case study. Chemical Senses, 25(5), 659)."

"More recently, (Bruce W. Jafek, Miriam R. Linschoten, and Bruce W. Murrow (Department of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado School of Medicine) presented, at the September, 2003, meeting of the American Rhinological Society, a paper on clinical problems attributed to the intranasal use of zinc gluconate. A short case study of one patient was presented. This patient had treated himself with the OTC intranasal zinc preparation. He reported that he felt an intense burning upon treatment and immediately became anosmic. His sense of smell was reported to still be absent 23 months after this incident. His anosmia has been confirmed by chemosensory testing and sinus disease has been ruled out as a possible contributor to his condition. The authors then reviewed the records of patients at the Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center and found ten patients whose anosmia may have been caused by the intranasal application of zinc."

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