Vitamin C for colds.

356 Amelioration of Rhinovirus Colds by Vitamin C ( Ascorbic Acid ) Supplementation

The effectiveness of vitamin C supplementation in moderating or preventing common colds still remains unsettled. Major problems in earlier trials have been (a) lack of adequate control of the vitamin C status of the subjects, and (b) possible variability in the types of virus infecting the test and the control subjects. We have developed a human volunteer model whereby laboratory-induced colds ...

[Critical evaluation of vitamin C as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent in colds].

ACUPUNCTURE AND COLDS AND FLU About colds and flu

Acute upper respiratory tract viral infections are the most common diseases of human beings (Eccles 2005). Adults have two to five common colds each year and school children have from seven to ten colds per year (Johnston 1996). The common cold is most often caused by rhinoviruses (Heikkinen 2003). It is a short mild illness with early symptoms of headache, sneezing, chills and sore throat, and...

When are colds contagious?

When is a person with a cold contagious? A couple of friends, who are put off when I keep my distance from their sneezing and coughing, insist one is only contagious a week or so before symptoms appear. In the back of my memory is the idea that one remains contagious until a few days *after* primary symptoms disappear. I'm not usually so concerned about this, but I'm coping with a couple of oth...

New Horizons for Vitamin C

T he polarization of views on vitamin • C that has occurred in the last few years is well illustrated by the following sequence of events: 1970, Linus Pauling's book, "Vitamin C and the Common Cold” was published and became a bestseller, 1972, Irwin Stone published "The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease/' claiming a wide variety of health benefits from large doses of Vitamin C. 1974, th...