Zicam cold medicine warning

[milivica]

Although this is old news, I just heard it....Zicam has been claimed by some users to have caused permanent loss of taste/smell.

Just wanted to post this, in case any of you didn't hear about that (like me), so you wouldn't use it on yourselves or your kids. It's supposed to be some kind of zinc nasal spray or something.

Mili

[LIZARD]

Although this is old news, I just heard it....Zicam has been claimed by some users to have caused permanent loss of taste/smell.

Just wanted to post this, in case any of you didn't hear about that (like me), so you wouldn't use it on yourselves or your kids. It's supposed to be some kind of zinc nasal spray or something.

Mili

This is only true of the nasal swabs--not the chews. The chews work wonderfully, especially when taken right away. :)


LIZARD :)

[Isabelle]

since scared of drugs, warm saline water in a spray works good so far.

[milivica]

Thanks for the clarification Lizard...I've never heard of the stuff, so didn't know there were different kinds.

Isabelle, I hear ya. You'll be happy to know, Vince is all but .125 mg/day of risperdal away from no more risperdal. Has been completely off paxil with no bad results in mood or behavior or whatnot. He will remain on Strattera though for now, he's miserable without it, 'high' as a kite without it. So, for now, at least he is down to ONE instead of the horrible combination of THREE. So, I thank you for your continual drug education here. He might still be on all three, with me unaware of the dangers, without you. By the way, my only cold relief is jalepeno peppers (hot peppers). It's the only thing that lets me drain and breathe. Of course, the next day on the potty is when I cry and sweat :eek: lol.

[Isabelle]

i am happy for vince, he is such bright, happy boy and he is so lucky to have a sensitive, caring, insightful, intelligent woman for his mom.

oh, i wanted to tell you that nuns punished me for talking on the lines by leaving me standing in the centre of the recess patio under a beautiful statue of the virgin mary, being an artist since very young i loved to touch with my fingers the beautiful marble work, so realistic and then the nun would come out to the balcony blowing her whistle screaming to stay still.

[milivica]

I remember they called the bathroom the 'laboratory' and the toilet paper were these little squares the nuns were always concerned we used too many and being wasteful which is some kind of sin but I forget which one but it must have something to do with the school budget, hee hee. Well, for some reason, I found the word laboratory perplexing and hilarious...so every single day when they'd announce to line up for the laboratory, I'd say, "go to the lab, and blow up your butt" and start laughing hysterically and say it over and over, I just couldn't stop. Lucky for them I was only at that school just over 3 years :eek: yep, and said it every day. I always loved plays on words, although too bad for my classmates my plays on words were only funny to me.

[peglem]

The toilet paper thing. What's up with nun's and toilet paper? I spent the last 2 years of highschool in a Catholic boarding school and the nuns would ration toilet paper. I can't remember how often we got a roll, but it never lasted long enough, especially during cold and flu season. (which is practically the whole year in North Dakota) We were supposed to use washable handkerchiefs, but, ewww! So, my friends and I spent a good deal of time plotting (successfully, I might add) the theft of TP from the storeroom. (not the nun's storeroom- nobody could get into the convent-way too scary) The school was run by the church, the nuns only ran the girl's dorm). Some of my best highschool memories are TP heists!

[Isabelle]

Mili, peglem

You are funny Mili! It's so funny the nuns' obsession to ration the TP :D I never liked to use the school/convent washrooms, they were SO DIRTY and big bully girls hanged out around there, also my mother was a germ-phobic and told us to hold it. We did, we could for 12 hours !!!!!

What about their obsession about making a mystery of our female parts, procreation and sex. Domestic Science and Anatomy books were missing so many pages... and, wonder of wonders, they didn't bat an eye when a 14 year old stocky, blonde, Italian girl in our class got engaged to an older man !!!!!! To be stocky it was guarantee for men that the girl could withstand lots of pregnancies, we skinny girls were not even considered or look at....
The nuns were SO THRILLED !!!! red faced with excitement, they asked Milagros the girl sitting beside me to stand up so everybody could see her and asked us to clap, we did with long faces. Her face red and tearful. There was not consolation. There was no love, it was arranged.

The mystery of procreation.....The only way to have children was to have a virgin birth like the komodo dragon. Even my mother didn't want to talk how she had us, it was so embarrassing to her

those were the good old times :( :rolleyes: :eek:

[Isabelle]

Oooh! Guys you made me forget why I post here, with all the nun talk :D

Health Canada approved a Cold-fX claims to reduce cold and flu symptoms by boosting the immune system. It is all natural in base of ginseng and aims to fight off colds BEFORE THEY START....uh? How would I know that BEFORE START?

Oh, well, if anybody use it let me know. I saw it in the drugstore is pretty expensive.