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If zinc lozenges dissolve too quickly in your mouth, they might not work as well as ones that dissolve slower, because studies that showed good results used lozenges that took longer to dissolve.
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Zinc acetate lozenges for the treatment of the common cold: a randomised controlled trial
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2020 Jan 23The study looked at zinc lozenges for colds but didn't say how fast they dissolved, so it can't tell us if slow-dissolving ones work better than fast ones like the claim says.
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