If someone is sick with a cold flu or fever but on medicine are they still contagious?

The rule of thumb is that you are contagious until 24 hours after your last recorded fever (when not taking fever reducing medicine). If your chills/cold sweats are due to fever, then you are still contagious.

You are still contagious for 24 hours after the last time you had a fever WITHOUT the use of fever reducing medications.

I caught a bad cold, but never got a fever with it. I then passed it on to a half a dozen people in my family over the holidays. You decide.

no. That much medicene could possibly kill your dog

* My doctor informed me that a person is contagious only when they have a fever. * My doctor told me the same as the first answer but said that you need to be fever-free for at least 24 hours (48 hours is better) without the aid of ibuprofen before you can be sure of no longer being contagious. *This is not always accurate. Consider the common cold. People can show symptoms and never have…

You should wait at least 12-24 hours to go anywhere after a fever breaks. You may still be contagious and others could catch your sickness.

Here are some sentences. That is a contagious disease. Is he still contagious?

Yes you are still contagious.

Anyone who is feeling flu-like symptoms is contagious. You are most contagious when you have a fever or have had a fever in the past 24-48 hours. I am not a doctor. I recently had H1N1 that turned into pneumonia and this is what my doctor told me when I asked about attending family Christmas gatherings. I stayed at home alone and away from all people while I had a fever and first two days…

till symptom are showing it is contagious

Cold sores that are scabbed are still contagious.

Most STDs are contagious as long as you still have the infection.

If your showing symptoms then you are still contagious

According to the related link, it is still contagious if it is not inflamed.

Scabies are contagious until it's gone. When the scabies are gone. It is not longer contagious. But, you have to wash your blankets & clothes that you used when you had them. Or they can still be contagious.

Yes. You must finish taking all of the antibiotics. Even if your symptoms have begun to clear up and you are feeling better; if you still have antibiotics left than you are likely still contagious. Symptoms often begin to go away before you have completed taking all of the medicine, the virus itself however is normally still present and your body is still fighting it off.

Chickenpox is no longer contagious once the lesions are scabbed over. So it is possible for spots to be visible, but to no longer be contagious. A chickenpox rash is contagious until all lesions are scabbed over. A person may no longer be contagious even if the spots are still visible.

once treatment is started are ear mites still contagious

Serina Hershley died due to scarlet fever at the age of five. Like many other children, she was still highly susceptible to the contagious and deadly disease at the time.

Yes, scarlet fever is still around.

a virus is contagious when a person first catches it but when a person gets over a virus they may still be contagious,over a short period of time it eventually isnt so contagious

Yes, yellow fever is still around but not in North America.

yes the yellow fever still exists today.

No, once the 5 days have passed you should not be contagious.

No; it is not possible to have a fever of 139 degrees and still live.