各地保健食品商店普遍销售的葡糖酸锌片能够缩短感冒的病程,英国新近的一次研究结果支持这一有争议的观点。由研究感冒的领导人J.Tyrrell D.A和Higgins P.G.进行的研究首次证实,锌所能缓解的实际上是一种感冒病毒或鼻病毒引起的疾病。他们在加拿大亚伯达省省府艾德蒙特举行的第七届国际病毒学会上的报告中断言 Zinc gluconate tablets, commonly marketed at health food stores across the country, have the potential to shorten the course of a cold and a recent British study supports this controversial view. The study, conducted by leaders studying cold, J. Tyrrell D.A and Higgins P.G., confirmed for the first time that what zinc can actually relieve is actually a cold virus or rhinovirus-induced disease. In their report at the Seventh International Virus Society in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, they affirmed