What is the Common Cold?
Common cold is a contagious disease caused by large number of viruses is a most common disease affecting the humans. It is actually an infection of the upper respiratory tract due to some virus. There are almost more than 200 viruses which can cause common cold. Besides there are new viruses on the verge of getting developed on a regular basis and already existing...
How is the Common Cold Treated?
There is as such no specific treatment for common cold. You can use some medication for getting relief from some of the symptoms of common cold like headache, muscle ache, etc. before taking any medicine one should try the home treatment drink lots of fluid and take ample rest will help you a great deal.
How long do Cold Symptoms Last?
The common cold has some of the several severe symptoms like mild fever, headache. Besides sore throat is a major symptom of common cold. Weakness in the body and fatigue are also some of the symptoms of cold.
One may have nasal congestion due to the common cold and also there is a loss of...How long is the Common Cold Contagious?
The common cold is very contagious can spread from one person to another through air via open sneezing or coughing. You don’t want your cold to spread to others so you should try socially inactive during this period and if you can’t afford to you should maintain high standards of hygiene like covering up your mouth and nose with handkerchief, washing your hands after sneezing and coughing. Because last thing you want is spread misery among the other healthy people.
Also a healthy person should avoid contact with an affected person and also the objects or any utilities used by him or her. At the first day of cold you would feel you are fine and think it won’t be contagious but this is the period where your cold is highly contagious, unaware of the case you would spread your virus among lot of people and also virus tends to replicate the most on the first day before the symptoms. There is a belief that cold is not that contagious or it does not spread until the affected person has fever isn’t true, cold is highly contagious before symptoms show up. The virus is most contagious on the first day and intensity almost remains for next three to four days and with days the intensity weakens.
