Zicam No-Drip Nasal Gel - 1 fl oz (2 X 0.5 fl oz) Review

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(More customer reviews)This used to cost $10 -- it's current high price is because it apparently isn't being made any more.
This was a cold remedy which actually WORKED and for a scientific reason: cold viruses breed in the nose and zinc inhibits their growth. For approximately the last ten years, using nasal zicam, I haven't had a viral cold which lasted more than 2-3 days, or with more than minor symptoms. This stuff worked; no doubt about it.
But some VERY few people, purportedly, couldn't follow directions and sprayed it far back into their nasal passages and had an adverse reaction ... losing their sense of smell.
So now all of us get to pay the price.
If you think about it, there are literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, of things which are KNOWN to cause harm to SOME people and to which we continue to be subjected every day:
-automobiles kill about 50 THOUSAND a year.
-guns kill people
-coal burning kills tens of thousands per year.
-chlorine is KNOWN to be highly toxic and swimming in chlorinated pools has been linked to eye damage.
-salt raises blood pressure.
-people drown in swimming pools and oceans.
-alcohol kills and debilitates untold thousands.
-FLORIDE IN YOUR WATER *ONLY* HELPS PRE TEENS BUT HAS NOW BEEN LINKED TO NUMEROUS DISEASES, INCLUDING OSTEOPOROSIS IN ADULTS.
-Drugs we use to save our lives almost all have dangerous side effects -- and drug interactions kill probably tens of thousands per year.
-Some people have dangerous or FATAL reactions to peanuts, shellfish, milk, soy, wheat, etc.
Etc., etc., etc. The list of things which are more dangerous than nasal zinc, which remain on the market, goes on and on and on.
The point is that the ONLY way to keep everyone safe is to confine us all to a petting zoo.
But, then, lack of physical exercise ALSO debilitates and kills.
So we get to live an absurdity. Here we had a product which actually worked: dramatically increasing quality of life for virtually everyone who used it per directions and, we can be sure, saving LIVES by preventing the infirm from getting or suffering from severe colds.
But now we are going to be "protected" from it and from ourselves, by denying all of us who DO read directions and did NOT have adverse reactions the benefit, because some few people had a relatively minor adverse reaction? When will this country get a brain? Life is a calculated risk. It should have been enough for the label to WARN -- but not in the bankrupt, socialist USSA.
In my experience, the other formulations of Zicam, including the oral applications with zinc, really don't work for colds. And that makes sense because, as I said, the viruses are stopped by ZINC and they breed in the NOSE. Hopefully Zicam will continue to sell their original formulation, with a written warning, outside the US and when we travel maybe we can stock up?
Great, great product. Too bad you are going to be "protected" from buying it.

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