what are differences between cold and flu? the symtomps, cause and others?
Posted by santosh k
Cold and flu are different.While a common cold is the simple cold a flu is accompanied by high fever and body ache.Both are caused by different group of viruses .
Posted by khaliomer
both may are the same and symptoms due to release of your interferon.So, symptoms of flu is beautiful thing that indicate ideal immune system.
Posted by laffy1999
The common cold is a viral infection. It can be manifested in different ways by different people. The manifestations during a common cold as well as the flu depend on your body's immune system response. The common cold is usually less severe than a strain of the flu virus. The common cold usually starts as some type of respiratory viral infection and can commonly cause host susceptibility to bacterial organisms. The flu virus acts more aggressively and has some effects on the nervous system. These effects cause the severe headaches, body aches, lack of body temperature control, and muscle aches that accompany this disease. At this time, there are no direct treatments for either of these viral diseases. The goal of treatment for both is to manage the symptomatology of the disease. For example, Tylenol/Ibuprofen for fever, etc.
Posted by paris_capulet
There lacks a good definition of what constitutes a "COLD". It is typically a viral infection. Flu symptoms, are often bacterial in nature. Anti-biotics are meaningless in the context of viruses. Thus, stock-piling Penicillin to "pop a couple" when a Cold is coming on, will not only be ineffective, but will reduce it's effectiveness for times when you really need it.
Posted by Leo
Both colds and influenza are caused by a virus, but they are not the same disorder. The common cold can be the result of one or more of over 200 different viruses capable of causing an infection once they invade the body. Influenza, or the flu, is caused by multiple strains of two types of a single family of viruses that change their characteristics every year. The types are conveniently called Type A and Type B. (There is a third type, which is C and rarely causes disease in humans.) Different strains appear every year, so that one year's immunity is not completely effective the next year.
Colds cause a sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, a low-grade fever with muscle aches and a general sick feeling. They may also cause laryngitis. Influenza is typified by a high fever, a dry cough, much worse aching all over and feeling terrible. Colds generally last about a week and the flu lasts as long as two weeks. Colds are more common during the winter, but the flu appears almost exclusively during the winter months in the northern hemisphere.
Both cold and flu viruses enter the body through the nose and mouth, where they begin to invade the sinuses, throat and upper breathing tubes (trachea and bronchi). Most healthy people can successfully recover from colds and influenza on their own, developing some degree of immunity to subsequent infections in the process. The flu, however, can be very serious for the elderly. A physician should evaluate older patients carefully if the flu is suspected.
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