Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Though sucking zinc lozenges has been promoted as treatment for the

Consider a situation where one can either chew Vicks lozenges which treats the cold in say 5 days, versus applying the Vicks gel directly on nose which treats the cold in 1 day. Now if everything being equal, this is what strengthens the argument which states how gel works better because it is directly applied on the area where virus colony is vis-a-vis lozenges which have to work harder for the zinc, the slayer of virus, to be transported through a complex mechanism from mouth to nose.

However, there is a catch. The special additive in the lozenges reduces the efficacy of zinc in it. Hence, it takes 5 days and not 1 day when compared to gel. This additive merely improves taste but as a side effect, reduces efficacy of zinc in it. Which means if we add this same additive to gel, the gel will also take 5 days to treat cold.

Thus, the real difference lies in the presence or absence of an additive and NOT in different areas of application of zinc based medicines.

Statistics : Posted by AndyDufresne • on 27 Apr 2010, 07:14 • Replies 15 • Views 57907

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