Can zinc help fight sepsis? early study explores dosing

This early-phase study looked at how the body handles zinc in people with severe sepsis, a life-threatening infection that causes organ failure. Researchers gave different doses of intravenous zinc to 40 ICU patients on breathing machines and compared them to 15 healthy volunteers. The goal was to find safe doses and understand how zinc affects inflammation and immune function, not to prove it works as a treatment.