amandalotti

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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   Structured data for effectiveness is on our radar! It's a bigger project than you'd think. Thanks for the comment.
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   Hey there - I'm that Angelotti :). My problem with this approach: As I'm quoted as saying in Jim's article, I just think it's a non-starter for most people to do this, ie keep an inventory of sorts in their medicine cabi
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   fair enough! yeah as we've been playing with the design, the generics have moved around a bit. we're still playing, and we absolutely mean to stress generics. that said, from the user's perspective, the thing that's easi
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   that's actually how we built the tool. the symptoms you select are each tied to active ingredients that they treat, and then we show you products (including generic/store brands) that contain those ingredients in the comparison ta
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   thanks for the tip! we're on it
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   We're still thinking through how to approach this, but it's definitely on our radar. Honestly, in my old role in clinical medicine, I'd counsel parents only to treat symptoms if their child seemed uncomfortable or fussy. If t
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   yeah i wrote a pretty comprehensive blog post about this - ie when it's better NOT to treat a fever http://www.iodine.com/blog/should-you-treat-a-fever/
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   I'm an MD, and I used to avoid treating cold symptoms for these exact reasons, until I came down with a nasty sinus infection that was a complication of my cold virus. Basically, because I left my sinuses all stuffed up, I created a ni
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   by amandalotti 12y ago

   Hey, I'm an MD at Iodine. Basically, zinc works. A Cochrane meta-analysis from 2013 showed that zinc lozenges reduce the severity and duration of common cold symptoms. It’s the closest thing we have yet to a cure for the common cold. G
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    by amandalotti 12y ago

    Hi Tom this is a great q. I'm the MD on the team here at Iodine. As you know, many people already stop taking their antibiotics without finishing the full course. According to our internal research, people get most freaked out about si