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Miracle Cold Cure Takes Over Campus!
Not quite a miracle, but Airborne works pretty well for multi-tasking students.
Harry Reyes
Issue date: 4/28/06 Section: Life & Times
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Airborne, a health formula tablet that has revolutionized how college students fight off germs and bacteria that make us sick.
The average college student has to be able go to class on time, be a dorm chef, be a cleaning lady, and other time consuming tasks, and the last thing this multi-tasker needs is to be sick.
For many at Rollins College, swears airborne works on them. This miracle tablet contains herbal extracts, antioxidants, electrolytes, amino acids, and vitamins.For all those that do not know what most of these are, it is simply means it fights off the common cold before it starts.
The way it works is every three hours at the first sign of a cold a tablet dropped in the choice of liquid, like water or juice, to be dissolved. It seems simply enough, but when something is too good to be true, it probably is.
So further research of this tablet explains possible problems or side effects one could occur. This tablet has not undergone any testing by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which makes many consumers worry of this drug.
Some feel that this cure for the common cold is a placebo pill filled with a punch of vitamin C that convinces takers to believe that it is working, and continue to purchase the tablets.
Others feel that who cares if it is a placebo, as long as it makes me feel that it is fighting of germs and bacteria, than so be it. This repeated buying and individual word of mouth has made $17 million dollars in sales last year.
There no sure way that a high doses of Vitamin C or A can prevent the common cold or block potential cold symptoms. Also, the use of Chinese vitex, used in the tablet, has been linked to increase blood pressure. To make the problem even worse, Vitamin C in high doses increases oxalate and urate excretion that may cause future kidney stones, according to ABC News.
Also, Answers.com has come out stating that "with herbs and dietary supplements in general, we only have the manufacturers' word on the label for what's in them."
The company can easily be hiding its true ingredients, and labeling false ones.
The only way to solve this mystery is to be a guinea pig, and see if it works.
Just keep in mind the potential effects of this cold supplement.
The average college student has to be able go to class on time, be a dorm chef, be a cleaning lady, and other time consuming tasks, and the last thing this multi-tasker needs is to be sick.
For many at Rollins College, swears airborne works on them. This miracle tablet contains herbal extracts, antioxidants, electrolytes, amino acids, and vitamins.For all those that do not know what most of these are, it is simply means it fights off the common cold before it starts.
The way it works is every three hours at the first sign of a cold a tablet dropped in the choice of liquid, like water or juice, to be dissolved. It seems simply enough, but when something is too good to be true, it probably is.
So further research of this tablet explains possible problems or side effects one could occur. This tablet has not undergone any testing by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which makes many consumers worry of this drug.
Some feel that this cure for the common cold is a placebo pill filled with a punch of vitamin C that convinces takers to believe that it is working, and continue to purchase the tablets.
Others feel that who cares if it is a placebo, as long as it makes me feel that it is fighting of germs and bacteria, than so be it. This repeated buying and individual word of mouth has made $17 million dollars in sales last year.
There no sure way that a high doses of Vitamin C or A can prevent the common cold or block potential cold symptoms. Also, the use of Chinese vitex, used in the tablet, has been linked to increase blood pressure. To make the problem even worse, Vitamin C in high doses increases oxalate and urate excretion that may cause future kidney stones, according to ABC News.
Also, Answers.com has come out stating that "with herbs and dietary supplements in general, we only have the manufacturers' word on the label for what's in them."
The company can easily be hiding its true ingredients, and labeling false ones.
The only way to solve this mystery is to be a guinea pig, and see if it works.
Just keep in mind the potential effects of this cold supplement.
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