Health Claims

Zinc stops cold viruses from sticking to your nose cells and making copies of themselves, which helps fight off the cold and reduce swelling.

Using a zinc gel in your nose daily can help you get over a cold faster and make symptoms like stuffy nose and sore throat less severe, especially if you start using it soon after you feel sick.

Taking zinc lozenges soon after cold symptoms start can help adults get over their colds faster, cutting down how long you feel sick by about 1 to 4 days.

Taking special high-strength zinc lozenges when you have a cold can help you get better about three days faster.

Citric acid and some sweeteners stick to zinc particles and stop them from fighting viruses.

Different zinc lozenges have different amounts of the active form of zinc, and only the active form fights viruses.

Taking zinc lozenges when you have a cold might help you get better faster, cutting down how long you're sick by about one-third.

Honey helps people with colds or coughs feel better by reducing how often they cough and how bad their cough is, compared to regular treatments.

Rinsing your nose with salt water gives your nose cells a special ingredient that helps them make a natural germ-fighting acid to fight off viruses.

Your nose and breathing tubes have special cells that make a natural cleaning chemical to kill viruses when you get sick.

Taking zinc acetate lozenges when you have a cold might help you get better faster, cutting down how long you're sick by about 2 to 3 days.

Zinc can stop cold viruses from copying themselves and spreading in lab tests.

Rhinoviruses are tiny germs that make people sick with the common cold. They're important because they spread easily and cause stuffy noses, coughs, and sneezes.

Rhinoviruses are a specific type of virus that belong to a larger family called picornaviruses. What makes them special is that they break down easily in acidic environments.

This idea is about using a nose spray or breathing treatment with nitric oxide to hit the spot where COVID-19 germs first enter your body, which might help fight the infection better.

Nitric oxide helps relax blood vessels and affects blood clotting, which might change how blood flows and clots in people with COVID-19.

Nitric oxide might help fight the COVID-19 virus by stopping it from getting into your nose and throat cells and making copies of itself.

Salt might help fight viruses like coronaviruses in lab tests, and this could be why people feel better when they use salt-based treatments.

Using saltwater nose rinses and gargling might help adults with common colds caused by coronaviruses get rid of a hoarse voice almost 3 days faster, according to a small study.

Using saltwater nose rinses and gargling might help adults with common colds from coronaviruses feel less stuffy faster, cutting down how long their nose stays blocked by about 3 days, according to a...

Using saltwater nose rinses and gargling might help adults with common colds from coronaviruses get over their cough about 3 days faster, based on a small study.

Using saltwater nose rinses and gargling might help adults with common colds caused by certain coronaviruses feel better about 2.6 days faster, according to a small study.

Some zinc lozenges can help you get over a cold faster if they're made the right way, but store-bought ones with extra ingredients might not work as well.

After three days, honey probably doesn't help coughs or sleep any better than cough medicine or a fake treatment, according to research.