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Zinc for prevention and treatment of the common cold

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024 · Cochrane systematic review

Zinc may shorten a cold that has already started, by about two days, but may do little to prevent colds, and it probably causes more non-serious side effects. Most of the evidence was of low certainty.

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