Zinc lozenges for the common cold: Should we ignore the side-effects?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 308-309

  Das, Rashmi Ranjan ^a   Singh, Meenu ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

COMMON COLD; DIARRHEA; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOZENGE; NAUSEA; SYRUP; XEROSTOMIA;

COMMON COLD; HUMANS; ZINC;

EID: 79960632308     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.04.026     Document Type: Letter

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