The common cold: Current therapy and natural history

Despite its prevalence, the common cold is complicated and can be difficult to treat, even symptomatically. There is still no cure for the myriad of viruses that cause the common cold. Many of the most popular remedies are either ineffective or counterproductive. This paper reviews the causes and course of upper respiratory infections, and discusses treatment options, including a new anticholinergic aqueous formulation for controlling rhinorrhea. (J ALLERGY CLIN IMMUNOL 1995;95:1133-8.)

• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

• Publication date

  1995-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0091-6749(95)70218-0PMID 7751530PMCID 7112258
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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