New trial casts doubt on role of zinc supplements in diarrhoea treatment

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 13:07 in Health & Medicine

Zinc supplementation can be ineffective in the treatment of diarrhoea. A randomised controlled trial published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that supplementation with either zinc or zinc and copper is no more effective than placebo...

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