And On The Eighth Day, Cold-Eze Was Created...
Jan 23 '01
The Bottom Line (This is actually a review of a product -- there seemed to be no appropriate category for this product, so I am forced to place it here.)
A month ago, I was having one of those Mondays when nothing was going right -- and was dismayed that on top of everything else, I seemed to be coming down with a cold too. It was the early stages -- tickle in the back of the throat, nose just starting to stuff up. My office has a medicine cabinet stocked with things like band-aids and asprin and cold formula, and at some point I stomped in to get a decongestant. I figured I'd also get a couple lozenges for my scratchy throat; they only had Cold-Eze brand lozenges. I hadn't ever tried them, but shrugged and took a couple -- one to have right away, and one for later on when I got home. I vaguely remembered something I'd heard once about Cold-Eze "reducing the severity and duration of your cold," but figured I'd believe that when I saw it.
And then, I DID see it. When I woke up the very next morning, my cold was ALMOST OVER.
Now, I am one of the unfortunate few who has never had small colds. After the initial day of feeling hinky, I always end up suffering through at LEAST a week of full-blown, hacking-and-coughing, stuffy-nose-and-sneezing, chapped-red-nose, someone-please-vacuum-out-my-head abject misery. NOT THIS TIME. After ONLY TWO Cold-Eze lozenges the day before, all I had was a teeny sniffle. Even LESS of a sniffle than I had had the day before.
Cold-Eze is not a cure, nor does it relieve your cold symptoms. It just tones them WAY down to a much more dealable level. All other times I've had a cold I have had to chow down on fistfuls of decongestant just to get to the point where I could function; THIS time, I popped a single tablet in the morning, and didn't even think to take another one until I was just about to eat dinner that night. And instead of my cold lasting for a week plus, I was completely past it within THREE DAYS.
And it actually tastes decent. Cold-eze has a good deal of zinc in it, and a friend of mine who has tried other zinc lozenges to deal with colds once complained that they were "like sucking on a padlock." The flavor Cold-Eze I had was cherry, and was quite pleasant indeed -- it won't be mistaken for a hard candy, but not medicine-y either.
I've since become somewhat of a convert, distributing handfuls of Cold-Eze to friends whenever they mention they're coming down with something. No doubt they find this behavior odd, but when something works for you, it works -- and oh, does this ever work.
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