Many people have heard of and probably at one point used the well known cold remedy Zicam. Well aside from being all natural and homeopathic it is also apparently very dangerous to your health, who would have guessed. Aside from not curing your cold, according to the Associated Press reports that:
"Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday."
Zicam contains large amounts of Zinc which can cause nerve damage, and has resulted in at least 130 cases of loss of smell. While many think that the FDA is supposed to prevent things like this from happening but what they don't realize is that Zicam falls in to a special group of remedies called homeopathic products, which are, according to the FDA not required to undergo review.
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