A combo of zinc acetate and vitamin C may help if you're feeling you may be coming down with flu. It's been proven that a lozenge containing zinc acetate will release the zinc slowly causing it to make it more difficult for flu viruses to attach to cell walls in the throat and the mouth. An effervescent tablet containing zinc, particularly when forming another salt is pretty much useless. That's because when you drink it, it has no time to work its magic on your mucous membranes. Zinc acetate is the substance you're looking for because the zinc will be released from that particular salt to a sufficient extent to have an effect.
Zinc acetate has been proven to shorten the duration of a flu by a third in double blind experiments and to make the symptoms less severe.
Good to know, I drink my vitamin C everyday along with other vitamin tablets. I must check if I have Zinc as well! Thanks! (:
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I don't think you should necessarily regularly consume any more vitamins than your body requires. But when you're coming down with a flu, Zinc acetate and Vitamin C are proven to help when consumed as soon as the symptoms appear. A day or more into the illness, it is no longer of any use.
Good to know 👌🏼
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