Popular cold medicine doesn’t do any good

Medication for the treatment of colds and flu Oscillococcinum is well known in our country, it is regularly included in lists of the best selling products in its segment in the Russian market. But the expert opinion is: the utilization factor of the cold medicine can be compared to regular sugar.

In the instructions to the Oscillococcinum it is noted that the current dose of a substance, the extract of liver and heart of a duck, contains a drug in a concentration that is too low for therapeutic effect. Thus in one capsule of the popular cold medicine weight 1?000 mg excipients present in the amount of sucrose – 850 mg and lactose – 150 mg. If a person with a cold and recover, taking such a medication, such healing can only be explained by coincidence with spontaneous recovery.

For many years the existence of this cold remedies-there have been six randomized, placebo-controlled studies that have been undertaken in Russia, France and Germany. None of them showed benefits from the use of Oscillococcinum in the fight against colds and flu compared to a placebo. The study medication in the treatment of the flu in the first 48 hours of the application showed an increase in the frequency of remission of symptoms by 7.7%, but the control at 3, 4 and 5 days did not show significant differences with placebo.

“The manufacturer actually sells for fighting colds sugar at a price of 50?000 per kilogram. Such a profitable trade in sugar may explain aggressive promotion of the drug by the medical representatives that are on your forum laugh at the naive buyers and the drug called “chalk” (dummy, placebo),” was one of the critical opinions about this stuff.
Currently, Oscillococcinum is sold in more than 50 countries as a homeopathic remedy. But homeopaths say that this cold medicine discreditied homeopathy, and contradicts the principle of individual approach to the patient, because the drug is sold in finished form and provides a standard dilution.

Many doctors believe that the incidence of colds generally do not need to take any medicine, letting the body to develop immune protection from infection. High than you can help yourself at the beginning of a cold is to provide bed rest and to drink plenty of fluids.

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