January 24, 2004 - Saturday
With Jeremy sick with something yesterday, I started popping the zinc lozenges to ward off any cold-like illness in myself. I'm a firm believer in the zinc and I'm sure it has kept me from getting sick when the rest of the family has been over the last couple of years. I swear it, particularly if I start using them ahead of any real symptoms.

Of course, I'd like to not see the kids get sick either, so I've given Harry zinc a few times, including today. I remember reading somewhere, perhaps on an old package of Cold-Eeze (but not on the current ones) or perhaps in an article that they are not recommended for children. However, it's not for health reason. Instead, the zinc lozenges are really only effective when they are dissolved in the mouth rather than swallowed and children can't be trusted to suck on them and not chew them. However, while that would be the problem with Jeremy, it is not with Harry. Harry is always doing with other types of candies or tablets. "Sucking the juice out of it" he calls it and it's something I can distinctly relate to, having done exactly the same as a kid myself. When I was in grade school my friends used to tease me for sucking Fritos, although really what I was doing was putting the salty side on my tongue and sucking that for a moment. So, when I tell Harry that he needs to "suck the juice" out of the zinc lozenge, I'm talking his language. And, he's very good at it.


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