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GB2121277A - Preparations for combating colds and flu, containing iron salt and calcium lactate - Google Patents

Preparations for combating colds and flu, containing iron salt and calcium lactate Download PDF

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GB2121277A
GB2121277A GB08216786A GB8216786A GB2121277A GB 2121277 A GB2121277 A GB 2121277A GB 08216786 A GB08216786 A GB 08216786A GB 8216786 A GB8216786 A GB 8216786A GB 2121277 A GB2121277 A GB 2121277A
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A combination of iron tablets and calcium lactate tablets has beneficial effects in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of colds and flu. Suitable dosages are 20 to 60 mg of saccharated ferrous carbonate or equivalent and 30 mg of calcium lactate or equivalent per day. The components may be admixed or may be in the form of separate ingredients held together in a pack.

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SPECIFICATION Preparations for combating colds and flu This invention relates to the treatment and/or prophylaxis of colds and flu.
We have found that a combination of iron tablets and calcium lactate tablets has beneficial effects in such treatment.
Twelve years ago (after half a lifetime of influenza and common colds) we discovered that a small quantity of Phillips Iron tablets together with a small quantity of calcium lactate tablets cleared up a severe attack of flu within a few hours. For the following five years whenever we sneezed or had a sore throat or sneezed excessively we would take the two ingredients and were trouble-free.
Believing we were immune, we suspended the treatment and within three months we both contracted influenza. We returned again to the treatment and have been immune for the past seven years. During these years we have had no side-effects: in fact, we have been in better health.
The Phillips Iron tablets taken were composed as follows: Phillips Iron Tonic Tablets Iron (as saccharated ferrous carbonate) = 20 mg Dried Yeast B.P.C. = 170 mg Ascorbic acid B.P. = 10 mg Thiamine hydrochloride B.P. = 0.16 mg Riboflavin B.P. = 0.30 mg Nicotinic acid B.P. = 2 mg Other vitamins natural to Brewers Yeast.
The calcium lactate tablets taken were as follows: Calcium Lactate B.P.
(Boots Drug Co.) = 300 mg.
It is possible that any one or more of the ingredients of the above iron tablets, together with the calcium lactate, is effective in the treatment.
For example, the beneficial effect may be due to the saccharated ferrous carbonate (or ferrous carbonate itself), together with calcium lactate, or to the saccharated ferrous carbonate (or ferrous carbonate itself) plus one or more of the other ingredients of this tonic, together with the calcium lactate, or to one or more of the non-iron 'components (including the glucose of the saccharated ferrous carbonate), together with calcium lactate.
The other essential component of the combination may be calcium lactate or any other calcium salt and/or lactic acid or a derivative, e.g.
salt or ester, thereof.
Preferably, however, the present invention provides a combination comprising (i) an iron salt, for example in the form of saccharated ferrous carbonate or other ferrous salt, or a ferric salt, and (ii) a calcium salt, for example calcium lactate, and, if desired, one or more of the following components: ascorbic acid, thiamine, e.g. thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, dried yeast, lactic acid or a derivative thereof.
The components may be admixed or may be in the form of separate ingredients held together in a pack, together with indications and/or instructions to indicate and/or facilitate administration of the components together or one after the other or on the same day.
Where the active ingredients are admixed, the combination may be in the form of a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the active ingredients in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutically suitable carrier. The pharmaceutical preparation may, for example, be in dosage unit form and one or more dosage units may be administered per day. Alternatively, the combination may be a composition suitable for making up into the form of a pharmaceutical preparation.
In a pack, the unit dosages of ingredients will be held in or on a container, card or other support member, and may be in the form of pharmaceutical preparations each comprising the active ingredient in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutically suitable carrier. The pharmaceutical preparations intended for administration on the same day may be themselves distinguished from other days' supplies, for example by colour, marking or shape, and/or they may be identifiable by their arrangement or means of presentation in the container or on the card or other support member.
For example, there may be an iron tablet(s) and calcium tablet(s) for administration together or on the same day in the same destructible profiled package or in different profiled packages distinguished from other days' supplies, for example by colour, marking, shape or position, for example spaced apart from other days' supplies.
Of course, also, when the active ingredients are admixed, the pharmaceutical preparations containing them may be in a pack similar to that described above, each dosage or each day's supply for example being readily identifiable as such, for example by its colour, marking, shape and/or means of presentation. For example, each day's supply may be in a singie destructible profiled package.
The preparations are usually administered orally (especially when a ferrous salt is administered), but, for example, other methods of administration are possible, for example injection.
The dosage used during our treatment was as follows: Daily Dosage 1970 1 st Year 3 tablets iron tonic, 1 tablet calcium for seven days, repeated when necessary = approx. 130 iron tonic, 45 calcium per year.
To 5th Year As per first year.
5th Year Nil for six months then as first year.
6th Year As per first year, but decreasing yearly amount.
To 1 2th Year As per first year, but decreasing yearly.
1 982 13th Year First three months 1 tablet iron tonic and 1 tablet calcium for three days, then per week - as required.
Thus, for example, substantially 20 to 60 mg of saccharated ferrous carbonate or equivalent of other iron salt and 30 mg of calcium lactate or equivalent of other calcium salt (or other lactate) may be used per day (in one or more dosages).
Treatment using smaller dosages of one or both ingredients may prove effective, for example, 20 mg of saccharated ferrous carbonate or equivalent and 30 mg of calcium lactate or equivalent per week. Of course, higher daily dosages of either or both may be used, for example the equivalent of four or more of the above iron tablets. The amount required may vary according to diet and individual.
The daily dosage may vary according to whether the treatment is prophylaxis or therapy.
The length of the treatment may vary also according to the individual and whether it is prophylaxis or therapy. A few, for example three, days to one to a few weeks is usual.
The frequency of treatment will also vary. For example it may be of the order of one treatment per month taking an average over a year.
The success of the treatment according to the invention is especially surprising as free iron is required for the growth of micro-organisms and there is evidence that increasing the availability of iron to pathogens may overcome immune mechanisms. For example, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975, January, Volume 231, No. 1, pages 39-41, it is stated that "normal hosts could in theory, protect themselves from invading micro-organisms if they could promptly... lower the quantity of iron in fluids such as plasma" and that "ingestion of 1 gm of ferrous sulphate by normal persons resulted in a 3-fold increase in plasma iron". Thus, it could not have been predicted that protection against invading micro-organisms could be effected by a process which involves, instead of lowering the quantity of iron, in fact increasing it, that is, by ingestion of iron (together with, for example, calcium lactate).

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1. A pharmaceutical combination for combating colds and/or flu, which comprises (i) an iron salt, and (ii) a calcium salt or lactic acid or a derivative' thereof.
2. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 1, wherein component (ii) is calcium lactate.
3. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein component (i) is a ferrous salt.
4. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 3, wherein component (i) is saccharated ferrous carbonate.
5. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, which includes ascorbic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid or dried yeast or two or more of these components.
6. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the components are in a form suitable for oral administration.
7. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the components are admixed.
8. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 7, wherein the admixture is in the form of a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the components in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutically suitable carrier.
9. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, which is in unit dosage form.
10. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the components are held together in a pack comprising a container, card or other support member in or on which there are arranged unit dosages of component (i) and unit dosages of component (ii), together with indications and/or instructions to indicate and facilitate a treatment consisting of the administration of one or more unit dosages of component (i) and one or more unit dosages of component (ii) each day.
11. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 10, wherein each of components (i) and (ii) is in the form of a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the component in admixture or conjunction with a pharmaceutically suitable carrier.
1 2. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein each unit dosage containing component (i) comprises up to 60 mg of saccharated ferrous carbonate or equivalent amount of other iron salt.
1 3. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in claim 12, wherein each unit dosage containing component (i) comprises 20 to 60 mg of saccharated ferrous carbonate or equivalent amount of other iron salt.
14. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 9 to 1 3, wherein each unit dosage containing component (ii) comprises up to 30 mg of calcium lactate or equivalent amount of other calcium salt or lactic acid or derivative thereof.
1 5. A pharmaceutical combination as claimed in any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein each unit dosage containing component (ii) comprises substantially 30 mg of calcium lactate or equivalent amount of other calcium salt or lactic acid or derivative thereof.
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EP0003679A1 (en) * 1978-02-08 1979-08-22 Michael Anthony Dr. Neaverson Body replacement therapy formula
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GB1132697A (en) * 1965-12-01 1968-11-06 Joseph Wladyslaw Blaszczak Process for the production of a therapeutic agent derived from formaldehyde and ribose or riboflavin
GB1142088A (en) * 1966-12-15 1969-02-05 Astra Ab Process for the production of an intra-muscularly injectable iron preparation
GB1256968A (en) * 1968-03-21 1971-12-15
GB1266356A (en) * 1968-08-08 1972-03-08
GB1326486A (en) * 1970-08-10 1973-08-15 Merck & Co Inc Beverages containing vitamin c
GB1298299A (en) * 1970-09-02 1972-11-29 Berthelsen Ind Comm Food supplement
GB1367359A (en) * 1972-01-31 1974-09-18 Berthelsen Ind Comm Mineral food supplements
GB1518364A (en) * 1976-05-05 1978-07-19 Beecham Group Ltd Pharmaceutical composition
EP0003679A1 (en) * 1978-02-08 1979-08-22 Michael Anthony Dr. Neaverson Body replacement therapy formula
EP0025721A1 (en) * 1979-09-18 1981-03-25 HOLLAND, Charles Cottrell A medication for oral administration and process for its manufacture

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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FR2601589A1 (en) * 1986-05-27 1988-01-22 Ciba Geigy Ag DIETETIC SUPPLEMENT WITH SEVERAL VITAMINS AND SEVERAL MINERALS CONTAINING BIODISPONIBLE IRON WITH CONTROLLED RELEASE
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US8986669B2 (en) 2005-09-02 2015-03-24 Genzyme Corporation Method for removing phosphate and polymer used therefore
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