Questions tagged [zinc]

I'm sick, and my friend had me buy store brand Zicam to help with it. Looking at the bottle after taking it, I thought the ingredients were written strangely. "Zincum Aceticum 2x", it says, when I would expect something more chemical sounding,…

There is a lot of advertising for zinc supplements on the web, most of which seems indistinguishable from advertisements for ineffective alt-medicine cures. Are these ads a hoax, or is there any actual benefit to taking zinc supplements?

My wife was just at a grocery store and a checkout girl told her that calamine lotion (zinc oxide + ferric oxide) had been correlated to kidney failure. My wife was going to get it for my daughter who has some mosquito bites and this checkout girl's…

This question doesn't duplicate the more limited one on Zicam; I ask here about zinc in general. No: Mayo Clinic (from which I quote below) and WebMD are skeptical. Since then, research has turned up mixed results about zinc and colds Possibly…