Do you have the flu?
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The difference between a cold and the flu is the virus (or viruses) that causes each. Influenza takes longer to work through your system and is more severe but a cold can have any of those symptoms you mentioned as well.
Edit: I say that with great authority, but, um, I don't know anything more than anybody else. This is just what I thought.
Edit: I say that with great authority, but, um, I don't know anything more than anybody else. This is just what I thought.
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Many people with a cold actually have allergy symptoms. Check the color of the goo coming out of your nose. Clear=allergies. Technicolor=infection.
I don't have the flu, but I keep hearing about it from all around. I was listening to a local health care person of some capacity or another on TV the other day, and she said "Every year, we try to predict which strain of the flu virus to innoculate against, but it's a crap shoot, really." That cracked me up, but then it made me feel less secure about having gotten the shot. I'm considering hermitage until spring.
I don't have the flu, but I keep hearing about it from all around. I was listening to a local health care person of some capacity or another on TV the other day, and she said "Every year, we try to predict which strain of the flu virus to innoculate against, but it's a crap shoot, really." That cracked me up, but then it made me feel less secure about having gotten the shot. I'm considering hermitage until spring.
Since the flu and colds are viral, aren't antibiotics useless against them?
From Wikipedia: "Since influenza is caused by a virus, antibiotics have no effect on the infection; unless prescribed for secondary infections such as bacterial pneumonia, they may lead to resistant bacteria. Antiviral medication is sometimes effective, but viruses can develop resistance to the standard antiviral drugs."
-Terry
From Wikipedia: "Since influenza is caused by a virus, antibiotics have no effect on the infection; unless prescribed for secondary infections such as bacterial pneumonia, they may lead to resistant bacteria. Antiviral medication is sometimes effective, but viruses can develop resistance to the standard antiviral drugs."
-Terry
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Perhaps a little WebMD will make you feel better?
"Don't antibiotics cure everything?
Antibiotics are powerful medicines, but they cannot cure everything. Antibiotics do not work against illnesses that are caused by a virus. They do not help illnesses such as:
-Common colds.
-Influenza (flu).
-Most cases of acute bronchitis.
-Most sore throats not caused by strep.
-Runny noses."
Feel better, sicko!
-Terry
"Don't antibiotics cure everything?
Antibiotics are powerful medicines, but they cannot cure everything. Antibiotics do not work against illnesses that are caused by a virus. They do not help illnesses such as:
-Common colds.
-Influenza (flu).
-Most cases of acute bronchitis.
-Most sore throats not caused by strep.
-Runny noses."
Feel better, sicko!
-Terry
I totally swear by this this shit:
http://www.karenherbs.com/kold_kare.htm
Someone turned me on to it a few months ago because his doctor had recommended. Throughout this winter whenever I've started to feel a cold coming on, I've dosed up on it, and within 24 hours I've warded it off.
http://www.karenherbs.com/kold_kare.htm
Someone turned me on to it a few months ago because his doctor had recommended. Throughout this winter whenever I've started to feel a cold coming on, I've dosed up on it, and within 24 hours I've warded it off.
I've been sick on and off for three weeks now with what I thought was a cold. I tend to think i'm really hardcore and never bother to see a doctor until i think i'm about to die. So after a week of waking up everyday with vicious headaches- i went to see the doctor yesterday and it turns out i have the most heinous sinus infection ever. literally half my face is swollen and numb- almost bells palsy style. The 'Maxillary Sinusitis' also adds pressure to the jaw and upper back teeth so i called my dentist thinking i would have to line up another root canal. With the antibiotics the tooth/jaw pain went away. I am slowly regaining feeling in my face now.
If you are like me- don't have insurance and rather self medicate... don't be an ass. Go see the motherfucking doctor before you turn into Quasimoto. This shit is hellacious.
If you are like me- don't have insurance and rather self medicate... don't be an ass. Go see the motherfucking doctor before you turn into Quasimoto. This shit is hellacious.
It could be something you wouldn't even think of.
During his highschool years, my brother fell while playing lazer tag and bruised his lower back. A few days later, he came down with a bad "flu." He was ache-y, had a high fever and an upset stomach. His fever spiked one night to 104, so my mother brought him to the hospital. It turned out he had a sist in his back that ruptured and became infected. He had to undergo some disgusting and painful procedures to aleviate the infection.
Anyway, point is, if you have a fever that persists for more than a day or two without any improvement, you should go to the doctor.
During his highschool years, my brother fell while playing lazer tag and bruised his lower back. A few days later, he came down with a bad "flu." He was ache-y, had a high fever and an upset stomach. His fever spiked one night to 104, so my mother brought him to the hospital. It turned out he had a sist in his back that ruptured and became infected. He had to undergo some disgusting and painful procedures to aleviate the infection.
Anyway, point is, if you have a fever that persists for more than a day or two without any improvement, you should go to the doctor.