Keegan99 said:
What do you think about adding Zinc with it?
Since the chloroquine is, theoretically, an ionophore to get the Zinc into the cell?
What's the deal with zinc?
The use of zinc to deal with the cold came about because of a little girl with leukemia who went to her doctor in Austin while coming down with a cold. Shortly after arriving, the doctor gave her a zinc gluconate lozenge but instead of swallowing it, she let it melt in her mouth. By the end of the visit, her cold symptoms had largely disappeared.
After some testing, it was thought that the zinc was effective against the rhinovirus which it was known to seriously damage or destroy in a test tube. I haven't kept up with whether it might be effective against other viruses. It wouldn't surprise me, though, to find out that it is effective against more than just rhinoviruses.
That said, my understanding is that the zinc is effective only when it comes into direct contact with the virus. You want the zinc to wash against the cells in the throat infected by the rhinovirus so that it can come into direct contact with the virus, I've never read that zinc does much to the virus if you just swallow it.
I told my sister about the zinc gluconate a few months after the initial reports by the doctor in Austin. She tried it and said that she would prefer the cold. I've used it a number of times and don't like the taste (especially with Hawaiian Punch) but think it was generally effective. I always let the lozenge melt in my mouth and then didn't drink anything for at least half an hour to let the zinc stay in contact with the infected cells in the throat.
Is there any research that shows that zinc does much to the virus if swallowed? If the zinc has to come into direct contact with the virus to work and it works well against coronavirus, where would the zinc have to coat to be effective?
