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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tatnic who wrote (1197)	10/26/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: Ohshaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

First of all, to say you are perfectly comfortable with a cold is to suggest that your remedies are perfect. There is no such thing as a perfect remedy, including Zicam. Whether Zicam is better than your remedies, I guess you'll never know. Fine. But it is rather silly to suggest you don't care for Zicam because you have already found the perfect remedy. As for the bottle reinfecting the user, this is wrong. You cannot reinfect yourself during the same infectious episode. The virus is already in your blood. Zicam simply impedes, but does not stop, the takeover of your own cells, so your body is not overwhelmed, thus allowing fewer antibodies to manage the infection. True, you can infect others if you share a bottle of Zicam, or Neosynephrin, or any other nasal spray, of which there are many. The point is, if you don't care for Zicam based on the spray delivery system, based on a reinfection concern, then you are lacking an awareness of one the most popular means for delivery of cold remedies. Nasal decongestant sprays are among the most popular cold remedies on the market.

To: Tatnic who wrote (1197)	10/27/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: out_of_the_loop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

<<<Every time you shove that thing back in there you're just "re-infecting" yourself. Brilliant.>> Let's say you are putting the sprayer in your nose during your present cold. First of all, you do not touch the mucosa with the bottle. Second, let's say you do. What dose do you suppose you are getting of virus in relation to the Zicam that binds it? Almost none compared to your active infection. Let's say that Zicam works in the way that the company has postulated. In that case, your argument is completely irrelevant. Now let's say you have cold #2 after surviving cold #1 and your recent mishap with your nitroglycerine mentioned in another post. You put the "infected" tip with virus from cold #1 and rub it around even though that it is clear to most thinking people who can read that this is not what you are supposed to do. You are already immune to re-infection with strain #1 so this is completely irrelevant. Now, add that irrelevance to the fact that the virus is unlikely to remain infective for any significant length of time. Your unwillingness to use Zicam and the unwillingness of some people to use intranasal products is a valid point. Most of us do not think that attitude is the prevailing one in our society (as per the recent post describing the tremendous numbers of successful oxymetazoline and saline nasal sprays). We do not know whether you are really serious or not, but thanks for the laughs. Back to your nitro...