Blog：Spray could cut cold misery
Posted by admin on October 29th, 2009 | 0 comments
The effects of a cold could be wiped out in just over a day using a nasal spray containing zinc, according to researchers in the US.
Drug companies have been testing the spray – which is already available in the US as a homeopathic medication – in clinical trials and found that it reduced the average length of a cold from almost ten days to 36 hours..
However, specialists investigating the common cold warned that it was too early to tell if the treatment would be genuinely useful.
The spray – known as Zicam – is being developed by Gel-Tech, a joint venture between three US companies
