Difference between Cold and Flu
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What are the flu symptoms vs a cold? What are symptoms of H1N1 or Swine Flu?
Wondering if you have a cold, the seasonal flu or H1N1 flu often called the Swine flu. The symptoms for the common cold and the flu are definitely different.
Flu symptoms:
1. The flu comes on suddenly. You get up feeling fine but sometime during the day you start to get aching and shivering.
2. A fever usually accompanies the aches when you have the flu.
3. You might also have a headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat and/or nasal congestion.
4. Sometimes vomiting or diarrhea accompany the flu, but usually in children.
Cold Symptoms:
1. Usually develops over a few days.
2. May or may not have a sore throat and cough.
3. Nasal congestion that may be accompanied by a headache if the sinus are inflamed.
4. Usually there is no fever or aches with a cold.
How do you know if you have H1N1 Flu Strain?
You won’t. Unless your doctor tests you with a swab of nasal secretions. But remember, far more people die from the usual flu strain than are reported dying from the H1N1 strain. And the treatment is the same for H1N1 as for the seasonal flu. Nevertheless, it does seem to be quite contagious. So protect yourself and those around you.
New research suggests the H1N1 virus can spread many days after the fever ends. Swine flu appears to be contagious longer than the seasonal flu. You’re probably contagious for about a week. So if you care about your family, friends, and co-workers – take the week off. Get your laptop and work from home. And, as mentioned above, take particular care as long as you are coughing. When the coughing stops, that is probably a better sign of when a H1N1 patient is no longer contagious.
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