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Ingredients |
Description |
Onset |
Duration |
Pros |
Cons |
FYI |
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Airborne® |
Effervescent: |
--- Immune health support |
--- 1 hour average |
--- 24 hours |
--- Some benefit if taken when you start feeling something. Like you are coming down with something. --- May reduce the severity of a cold |
--- Not effective if you already have a cold --- It does not prevent a cold, may reduce the severity. |
--- Take when you feel a cold coming on. --- Take when people around you have a cold. --- Take daily during cold season for immunity boost. |
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Cold-EEZE® |
Regular Daytime / Nightime Plus Natural Immune Support |
--- Shortening the duration of a cold if taken when you feel a cold coming on. --- May reduce the severity of a cold |
1 hour |
Every 6 hours |
--- May cut the duration of cold by 1 or 2 days. --- Actually like the day/night combination. Night time doubles as sleep aid. |
--- Hard to mask the taste of zinc, so formulations may leave a taste in the mouth. --- Oral spray may leave an after taste of zinc. |
--- No harm in adding cold ease to your cold cabinet. If you sense a cold coming on, take some. --- Not particularly interested in the oral spray. Our test customers did not like the after taste. |
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Emergen-C |
Original Formula |
--- Immune booster against the common cold. --- Supports immune system |
1 hr |
12 hours |
-- Good tasting. --- Good for morning drinks before leaving home. --- May reduce the duration of a cold |
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Zicam® |
Rapidmelts, Oral Mist, Ultra Crystals, Lozenges, Chewables: |
--- Reduce the duration and severity of a cold |
1 hr. |
8 hours |
--- May reduce the severity of a cold if taken as you feel a cold coming on. |
--- Taste of oral mist not pleasant. |
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Oscillococcinum |
Anas barbariae hepatis et cordis extractum (extract of Muscovy Duck liver and heart) 200CK HPUS |
--- Reduce the duration and severity of flu-like symptoms |
1 hour |
8 hours |
--- Can be taken by children 2 years and older --- It actually works to help with flu-like symptoms if taken at the first signs of symptoms. |
--- Expensive |
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Sambucol® |
Original |
Original Cold & Flu Nighttime |
1 hr |
8 hrs |
--- Black Elderberry contains anthocyanin flavonoids which has a remarkable ability to boost the immune system. |
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Coldcalm® |
Allium cepa 3C, Apis mellifica 6C, Belladonna 6C, Eupatorium perfoliatum 3C, Gelsemium sempervirens 6C, Kali bichromicum 6C, Nux vomica 3C, Phytolacca decandra 6C, Pulsatilla 6C |
--- Assist in relief of cold |
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None |
--- You are on your own. All company would tell us is that it is a homeopathic formula and people react differently to it. |
--- No proof it is better than a placebo. |
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Halo™ |
Cetylpyridinium Chloride (0.1%) |
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Alomune® |
Arabinogalactan (from Larch Trees) Larix laricina 1350mg |
--- supports natural immune function by increasing beneficial immune cell populations and/or increasing antibody production based on the immune stressor. --- Antioxidant capacity |
Daily use recommended |
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--- Possibly effective in helping the immune system |
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