Posted on 06/16/2009 8:54:49 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
Federal drug regulators warned consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular homeopathic cold remedy, because it could damage or destroy their sense of smell.
The action is an early indication that the Obama administration is likely to take far more aggressive enforcement actions against drug companies than the Bush administration did.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Probably was a libtard just saying that....
If you kill your sense of smell, from the research I have read, you will loose a massive amount of weight.
New market?
That ain't gonna be the only industry targeted for agressive totalitarian regulatory enforsement action!!!
It’s amazing how jaded we’ve all become given this administration. Even though Zicam is no longer advertising (that I’m aware of) on Rush, it’s (at a minimum) a shot across the bow.
Thank Nancy Pelosi for that switch. She pushed through a law under darkness of light to ban pseudomenaphrines (sp) so now we all must sign are name and address on a list if we try to by what we used to buy over the counter.
And they pulled the original dimetapp, which millions had used safely, and left drugs known to cause hypertension in it’s place.
Next the Obama administration will declare that Sleep Number Beds cause cancer.
Motivation to go after Zicam.
The very same thought I had. They will keep going after any product Rush has endorsed. It is becoming a war they will lose. If the silent majority gets involved, its over.
Evidence of a defacto “Limbaugh Factor”...???
Are they sure that the Zicam is causing the loss of smell? I had hayfever for quite a few years. Still had my smell—it may have been diminished somewhat. I’m not a big one for taking pills or other medicine so I’ve never tried Zicam. In 2002, I got a doozey of a cold in the early summer. It affected my smell. I couldn’t smell anything for the longest time (years after the cold ended). It has come back somewhat, but it is still diminished and slightly off. Things don’t smell like they used to. The only way I can describe it is that it’s like a radio not being quite tuned in to the station that you want. At times I will also smell phantom odors.
This started a few years ago. Here's some info from a site called Urban Legends.
Links to the FDA showed no info on clinical trials (that I found) -- just a vague reference.
"FDA’s concerns about reported adverse events of anosmia are heightened by published scientific literature that provides evidence supporting the connection between intranasal zinc and anosmia."
Can Matrixx keep selling those "tens of millions of doses" (with a warning ) if they promise not to sponsor conservative talk radio? Just wondering.
A warning? Yes. One user who suffered reported: "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."
One may be one of the few hundred.. try a tiny bit first? Maybe.
See #13, above...
Difficult to tell, since the cold symptoms it is meant to treat can be associated with a loss of smell as well. Then too, one's sense of smell can't be measured as easily as say, vision or hearing.
If these shenanigans are actually going on -- and there are questions about Chrysler and GM franchise cancellations -- it points up a fear I have. A fear of the "it all counts toward 30" government employees.
These things cannot happen without Obammunists influence on civil servants. Will enough civil servants risk their careers -- and lives? -- to expose these traitors (no other word for it).
Not only are the Obammunists from the "Chicago school" they are also 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street rabble and the ideological issue of same.
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