Airborne Effervescent Health Formula, Original Orange, 10 Tablets (Pack of 3)
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Product Reviews of Airborne Effervescent Health Formula, Original Orange, 10 Tablets (Pack of 3)
Product Review: Misleading Marketing?
Summary: 2 Stars
Ok, here's the marketing push:
"Product Features
*original orange flavor
*Unique all-natural formula of seven herbal extracts, antioxidants, electrolytes, and amino acids offers maximum vitamin and herbal support for hours
*Effervescent technology offers 100% immediate absorption; herbs come from whole plant material to ensure safety, purity and potency; pleasant orange flavor
Sounds great, huh?
Now take a look here:
"Other Ingredients: Citric Acid, Sorbitol, Sodium Bicarbonate, Natural Orange Flavor, Polyethylene Glycol, Aspartame, Mineral & Canola Oil, Riboflavin. No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives."
Polyethylene glycol?? What's that doing in there? Get over your cold, but get the runs and maybe cancer instead? And it seems it's especially problematic for children? (Search "polyethylene glycol" + "danger"). For example, see this: [...]
Mineral & Canola oil--this wouldn't be the typical hydrogenated and unhealthy kinds, would it?
Aspartame is natural?? It's an added artificial sweetener--or did I miss something? And personally, it's not something I would want to be taking, especially when I was sick ([...]).
Stuff like that makes me wonder, where do the other ingredients really come from?
It also makes me wonder, why are unhealthy ingredients unnecessarily put in "this will make you healthy" things? What will they do to me and my children?
So sorry, Airborne, your marketing seems pretty misleading and makes it hard to trust you. Would you like to explain, and perhaps get rid of a two-star review?
Product Review: Modern Snake Oil!
Summary: 1 Stars
There is absolutely, positively no empirical evidence that Airborne works. In fact, the company was recently forced to change the claims on their label because they couldn't provide any (ANY!!) supportive studies showing that the product did anything. It turns out their "offices" are little more than a home garage & the "CEO" runs from television cameras. You know the type!!
Your money is better spent on orange juice and a good mattress on which to get decent sleep. This product doesn't even warrant one star and Amazon is irresponsible in allowing this to be sold on their site. People who think it's had an effect on them aren't considering the variables of other underlying factors (i.e. they may have come in contact with less virulent cold viruses, might be sleeping better overall, getting more exercise, eating more healthly, etc.)
Product Review: Not a miracle cure, but a marvel of prevention!
Summary: 5 Stars
In a working environment where one person can infect the entire place with their cold, flu or other malady, Airborne is the answer to prevention. While it most certainly will NOT work in all cases, Airborne does do the trick, and I have managed to prevent sickness with this product before.
Case in point: I had to share a car with someone who was hacking, gagging, coughing and sneezing for the whole hour trip (30 minutes going, 30 minutes coming back). Of course, within a day my body started feeling achey and I developed a headache. I took a break to head on over to the pharmacy to get some cough medicine, and wound up finding Airborne instead, which had come recommended to me by nearly a dozen people at this point. So, I followed the directions: 3 tablets in a day, taken at 3 hour intervals. By the next morning, I felt perfectly fine.
Much like an alka-seltzer, the Airborne tablet is dropped into a small amount of water and in a minute it is completely dissolved. The orange flavor isn't spectacular, but it isn't bad...almost like a flavored seltzer. It feels good going down and doesn't cause nausea or anything else. You won't feel better instantly, becuase it usually takes about 2 or 3 tablets total to get the full effect, but you WILL feel better. Chances are you might just stay with your minor symptoms, but other times you'll prevent the cold from setting in entirely!
Ever since I discovered this product about half a year ago, I have used it at the first sign of illness...headache, bodyache, stuffy nose, etc...and each time it has PREVENTED sickness from setting in. Results won't be typical for everyone of course, but it definitely works for me, and for that I'm grateful. However, I do see complaints from people claiming that it doesn't work. Most of the time, those complaints are coming from people that decided to take Airborne AFTER they already got sick, not at the FIRST SIGN, as the instructions clearly indicate. The only way it could be made more obvious is if they spent extra money on the packaging to make the words "First Sign" light up and make sounds. If you don't take this product when you first notice symptoms, it will NOT work. If you get a sudden onset of sickness overnight without symptoms, it will NOT work. This product doesn't cure, it prevents...huge difference.
I highly recommend this product to anyone who works in a large office environment, or frequently goes to crowded environments such as malls. Take it BEFORE you go into the area and you should be fine. In all other cases, the moment you start to feel awkward, take it to be safe. Just remember, before you start complaining that it doesn't work, Airborne is intended to prevent, not cure. It is also not very likely that Airborne will stop something more powerful such as a flu. This product works, and it works well.
Product Review: Only good as a preventive measure
Summary: 2 Stars
When I've taken Airborne to prevent from getting a flu or cold that's circulating around, it seems to be effective. However, when taken after I've already started to experience symptoms, it can actually prolong the duration of a cold or flu. 3 people in our family got a flu. Two took Airborne once symptoms appeared, and one didn't take any at all. The one that didn't take any had a flu for about 3 days, then was fine. The two that took it were sick for nearly two weeks with mild symptoms that re-occur every afternoon and last all evening. Headache, sore throat, low-grade fever, body aches, fatigue. Obviously, in this case, it didn't work very well.Product Review: Only medicine that works fast.
Summary: 5 Stars
Airborne original is truly the only medicine that ever worked right away for me. Just in about 1 hour I felt significantly better, and the 2nd tablet discarded all of the symptoms (cough, throat ache, sneezing). Of course Airborne did not cure my cold on its own, but it boosted my immune system, and I was able to recover much faster than with Dayquil, honey & tea altogether.