--- Here is what snopes.com says about that warning:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/zicam.asp

Can't always believe everything you hear or read.

Candy Muir


In CombeticFamily@yahoogroups.com, rockn2034@... wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Taylor
> To: Alicia Burst ; Amanda Lunetta ; Barbara Eisenberg ; Cathy
Roth ; Celeste Caldwell ; Cheryl Carr ; Cnoel927@... ; Gail Eagle ;
Heidi McDonald ; Jeannie Jones ; Joel Wugalter ; Joy Russ ; Joyce
Simpson ; Lance Taylor ; Marcia Golden ; Mark Tiralosi ; Mel Roth ;
Sharon Heierman ; sportskip@... ; Susan Moore ; Sylvia Karp ; Tom
Ashley ; Tom Cothron ; Tory Lanza ; Vinny Mazzurco
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 6:58 PM
> Subject: Fw: Fw: [Fwd: Zicam Warning] might be better to just have
the cold then to use this stuff............Jim]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Courtney Youron
> To: Cathy Youron ; Amy Wolf ; Rachel Tyman ; Bruce Taylor ; Audrey
Tansky ; Jennifer Sullivan ; Shelly Silberman ; Adina Sharfstein ;
Melanie Musum ; Adriana Martinengo ; Robyn Maroney ; Jennifer
MacDougall ; Russell Jacobs ; Eric & Chris ; Donna M. Benson ;
Alyssa Berger ; Sherry Bees
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 6:20 PM
> Subject: Fw: Fw: [Fwd: Zicam Warning] might be better to just have
the cold then to use this stuff............Jim]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: barbsamz
> To: Joseph Zicari ; brian zicari ; Linda Stambach ; Gerri Smith ;
Kathy Montgomery ; Sylvia Grove ; Jim Grove ; Toni Darling ; Fred
Darling ; Regina Cullen ; Marge & Herman Carr
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:23 PM
> Subject: Fw: Fw: [Fwd: Zicam Warning] might be better to just have
the cold then to use this stuff............Jim]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roland Hazel
> To: Sam & Barbara Zicari
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:49 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Fw: [Fwd: Zicam Warning] might be better to just
have the cold then to use this stuff............Jim]
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> Just passing along. click on website after reading.
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> Please see above and below
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> This is true go to the website at the end......
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> I need to warn you about a product on the market and hopefully you
> will pass it on to as many people as possible. I felt like I was
coming
> down with a cold last Friday and because I'm around sick family
members so much I wanted possibly head it off. I used Zicam, which
is a gel nose spray which claims to keep a cold from becoming "full
blown." Immediately I had an intense, horrible burning in my
nasal/sinus passages. The skin on my face hurt to touch and I had
pain and burning so that it hurt to move my head. My husband was
here and kept asking if I wanted to go to the ER but the thought of
getting in a car was overwhelming. My face was burning hot and my
nasal passages were so swollen that I couldn't breathe through my
nose and I could see the swelling when I looked in the mirror. It
lasted for about three hours and it was Labor Day weekend and I
couldn't see a Dr. until Tuesday. I have seen two ENT specialists in
the last two days because I have lost, totally lost all ability to
taste or smell. They both told me the same thing and suggested an
immediate course of action. This is called "chemical trauma' and
most times is permanent. I'm going to have a CT scan on Monday and
am on a high dose of the steroid, Prednisone for two weeks.
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> If there is even a thread of the olfactory nerve left, it will
help to rejuvenate what is left. I have been on the Internet (just
put in Zicam) and there are hundreds of people who have had this
happen. I am so angry and devastated and saddened right now that I
don't know how to get through this. I cannot handle the thought of
never tasting food again or trying a new recipe or smelling a
Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking has been an absolute passion
> of mine for as long as I can remember and at the moment I don't
see the point of even putting dressing on a salad. I keep thinking
that this cannot be happening to me. I suck on a lemon, bite down on
a clove of garlic, smell a bottle of ammonia, nail polish remover,
anything.
> I'm starting by telling people I love. PLEASE don't use Zicam,
tell your
> friends.
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> http://www.zicam-cold-eeze-lawyers.com/
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