Airborne Effervescent Health Formula Dietary Supplement Tablets, Adult Formula

Pros: Can help fight off colds or minimize their severity. Made in USA!
Cons: Orange flavor isn't great (but it also comes in lemon lime and gummi lozenges)

I went almost 3-1/2 YEARS without getting sick--thanks to Airborne. If YOU feel a cold coming on, then you might want to give it a try.... Airborne is a mixture of herbs (like ginger and echinacea), vitamins (like A, C and E) and ...

Pros: A lot of good ingredients, convenient, good taste, makes you feel better.
Cons: Unfairly grossly penalized for original advertising claims and studies not done by experts.

I am one of the people that love Airborne - when I have a cold, I usually take this too late - way after the cold has manifested, and I think to buy some. However, I notice in a few minutes my nose has opened up significantly, and my sneezing has slowed or stopped.  It just plain makes me feel better for a couple hours.

Pros: Works well when taken before you are sick...not so much after.
Cons: If you are already sick does not work. Causes the worst gas ever w/upset stomach.

I am not a placebo effect person..I have been taking allergy medication since I was 6...a drug either works or it doesn't and it's very easy to tell in someone that has had to take a lot of medicine. Airborne works really well for me if i take it at the first sign of neck and knee pain (my first clue that i have a virus of some sort) If I wait till I am sick I really don't see that it helps much.

Pros: Tastes good, easy to carry with you and very effective.
Cons: If I wait too long before starting the Airborne process, it doesn't seem to help.

I am one of those people who get everything that comes down the pipeline and when I get sick, I get very sick.
Airborne has been very effective for me.

I start taking it at the first sign of trouble and when traveling. Some time I take it just because. I have many grandchildren and it seems like a good idea to take it when they're around a great deal, like Christmas vacation and summer time.

Pros: Easy to take and I really believe it works.
Cons: None, if you add the juice.

Just a note to say that I tried adding some orange juice to my lemon-lime flavored Airborne and it tastes great. I wait until the tablet has fully dissolved before I add the juice. I can’t imagine that doing this would decrease the effectiveness, but if someone knows otherwise please tell me.

Pros: None
Cons: What are you people thinking?

What are people thinking? Where are the scientific studies? A second grade teacher creates a medicine( o excuse me suppliment). Should I remind people that the US is behind the rest of the world in science education.

Pros: Works for me what more can I say?
Cons: After the Cold is already in progress I didn't see that much benefit.

I'm 62 yrs. young and somewhat "Crusty" ........usually I just don't buy into claims of get well quick snake oil remedies. I've used Airborne now for about 2 years and it is fantastic stuff and works for me. I try and take it as directed when I know someone close to me has the making of a Cold headed their way. It has stopped colds in their tracks for me.

Pros: Might help some people psychologically (placebo effect), however, read our cons.
Cons: Side effects to recommended doses can be terrible; no mention of this on packaging.

I've had 3 colds while taking Airborne this season, a record for me. I had none the year before, and only one the year before that. If Airborne helps anyone, I think it must be psychological, which if perfectly fine if it works. However, be warned; taking the recommended dosage on the package can make you very, very sick. My sister became nauseous and dizzy; I, too, became very dizzy with severe diarrhea; and our mother practically passed out from taking 3 doses in 12 hours. I would say this is a little like the old snake oil the traveling salesman used to sell, except Airborne has the ability to actually make you feel worse. There probably should some control over this high dosage or, at least, a warning label.

Pros: Causes minimal harm unless you take it daily.
Cons: Ridiculously expensive for the ingredients.

A group of us traveled together and all caught the same cold, including the 4 people taking Airborne. They were convinced that Airborne had made their symptoms milder, but since we all felt that this was a mild cold and none of us missed out on any travel activities, I'm now convinced that Airborne is no better than a good cheap multivitamin.

Pros: It works well.
Cons: Not crazy about the taste.

I am in and out of Dr's office alot with my uncle so i decided to try Airborne. So far i have not been sick.
There have been nights when i really felt like i was coming down with something and i took this and to my surprise the next day i felt great. So i would say it really worked for me.

Pros: It works!
Cons: The orange zest flavor is quite nasty. Expensive - $6.99 @ Walgreens.

I'm around sick kids all day everyday and have not gotten sick yet. I don't take 1 every 3 hours like the dosage says otherwise I'd go through a tube of tablets a day! All & All this product is worth a try.

Pros: Will kill germs trying to enter in to make you ill
Cons: Expensive for just 10 pills

I was not sure if I wanted to spend 6 dollars for 10 tablets when I wasn't even sure if it was going to work. However I gave it a try because everyone in my family goes on and on about how great the stuff is. I woke up Sunday morning with my throat feeling funny and my glands in my neck swollen. Coming from a person who gets about 10 colds every winter, I knew this was the first sign of a long two weeks of coughing, sneezing, and over all feeling pretty miserable. I took 3 doses of the medicine and to my surprise all my symptoms disappeared within 24 hours. I sing every week and I have to make sure I have my voice so I was willing to try anything and now that I have tried Airborne I make sure I keep a tube of it in my purse!

Pros: If your wallet seems heavy, this'll lighten it right up for you!!
Cons: That it doesnt work at all, and doesnt taste good. Try Flinestones instead!!!!!!

I bought a tube of airborne because I work at one of the retailers, so I saw it often. I bought it and started to take it, to keep from getting a cold that my mom and brother always seem to get. Well, I took it, and I have a cold RIGHT now. I just took one, just to see if it could redeem itself. I had really high hopes for this icky tasting Alka_Seltzers! They taste bad and they DONT help!!!

Pros: I have no comment.
Cons: AIRBORNE is a very dangerous product in combination with blood thinners;Warfarin, resulting in internal bleeding!

After taking Airborne for 5 days my INR level jumped from its consistent 3.0 level to above 6.0 (possibly greater since I quit taking Airborne two days prior to INR testing. This level caused me to bleed internally. Once I stopped taking Airborne my blood level is now returning to a safe level.

I wrote the Airborne people with my comments suggesting they provide a warning for people on Blood Thinners! Their reply to me was: "Always consult with your doctor prior to taking over the counter products!"

Pros: It got rid of the cold symptoms quickly!
Cons: I had an immediate reaction of itching and rash all over my body.

I wanted to caution people because though I took it to lessen the oncoming cold symptoms, once they'd subsided I broke out into a massive rash from the feet to the neck. It wasn't raised like a penicillin rash but, then, I realized that people who had asthma reacted to the herbal ingredients in the product.

I ended up going to the doctor because the itching would not stop even with an anti histamine tablet they suggested I take.
The doctor said that as I'd taken the tablets every three hours at the onset of the cold, not changed anything else in my day, this was probably the culprit.

Please don't overdo it if you've had asthma or allergies to plants in the same family as echinacea.