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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold
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To: Street Walker who started this subject2/21/2004 1:01:27 PM
From: StockDung   of 5582
 
HMMM, ZICAM AND HAIR LOSS?

From: Xairyhay1 (xairyhay1@aol.com)
Subject: Zicam (Zinc nose gel) and hairloss
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Date: 2001-11-08 07:42:47 PST

Ok, someone please tell me that I am not nuts. Zicam is a Zinc based nasal gel
that is squirted up your nose ever few hours to get rid of a cold. The stuff
will knock any cold out of me in 2-3 days. I swear by it. Zinc losenges also
work for me, but not as well. Anyway, everytime I use it, I notice an
immediate increase in hairloss during shampoo and combout. Almost a double
rate of loss. The increased loss starts after the first day I start using it,
and stops the day I stop using Zicam. This pattern has repeated for 4 out of
my last 5 colds. The one time it did not occur, was when I didn't take Zicam
because my local store was out.
Anyway, doesn't this fly in the face of conventional wisdom of hair cycles and
their relative durations? This is almost like a chemo effect. Could it be?
The dose of Zinc is very high, but I don't recall what, and don't have the
product literature.

Any thoughts, or similar observations?

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