Do Echinacea Supplements Really Work To Prevent Cold Symptoms

How To Prevent Cold Symptoms

Everyone wants to know how to prevent cold symptoms. The problem has plagued man likely since the dawn of time. Many people have their own family secrets or hand-me-down home remedies but new studies have shown that you can prevent colds and prevent cold symptoms by employing the widely known and followed tactics of taking Echinacea supplements before cold symptoms occur.

Echinacea supplements also apparently decrease the length of cold symptoms by roughly a day and a half according to research published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

How Effective Are Echinacea Supplements

How much does taking Echinacea supplements help in preventing colds? According to the research taking Echinacea supplements can decrease your chances of catching a cold by approximately 58 percent. You can supplement Echinacea by simply drinking an Echinacea tea or by popping Echinacea tablets with your regular vitamins.

Of course you can also prevent cold symptoms from appearing significantly by upping the amount of times you wash your hands throughout the day, getting enough sleep, and possibly by sucking on zinc lozenges. It’s amazing how much simple things like these can help so much

Source
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, July 2007 - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(07)70160-3/fulltext