What temperature do you have when you have a cold?

Answer 1

The answer:

You stay home from public so you don't spread it to others. You wash your hands often, use tissues when you cough or sneeze, rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids, monitor your temperature and use fever reducers if needed and according to the label directions. Keep up a healthy diet, perhaps use Vitamin C or Zinc supplements (see link below for newest information on Zinc treatment for the common cold) and wait until your body takes care of it for you. Take over the counter symptom relieving medicines for cough, sore throat, stuffiness (ask the pharmacist for help in selecting the products that are best for the symptoms you have.) Use lotion tissues (e.g., Puffs Plus) to keep your runny nose from being sore from the constant irritation of wiping and blowing it.

Some common misinformed answers:

• You go to the doctor and they give you antibiotics.

This may happen, but it should not. A cold is caused by a virus. Antibiotics do nothing to help viral infections. You should avoid taking antibiotics if you don't have a bacterial infection because it can cause germs to become resistant to the antibiotics. (It has to do with germs in the environment becoming used to or able to protect themselves from that antibiotic over time if they are exposed short term to doses of antibiotics that are given for too short a time or given in low doses or overused). Don't badger your doctor to give them to you when you really don't need them (they know they shouldn't do this anyway, but sometimes give in to patient pressure). Unless antibiotics are prescribed to prevent or treat a secondary bacterial infection when you have a viral illness, there is no reason to take them since they do not kill viruses.

• Don't spend a lot of time outside in the cold weather!

This is true to keep you comfortable and to keep you away from other people outside so you don't spread the virus, but being cold does not cause or worsen a cold.

• "Feed a cold and starve a fever" or "Feed a fever and starve a cold"

These are neither correct. You need proper diet to keep your immune system functioning well. No infective illnesses are treated by starvation or reduced nutrition. Proper healthy diet should be maintained with any infective process or disease. Overeating is not healthy.

Good advice whether you have a cold or not:

• Get up to 7 or 8 minimum hours of sleep each day.

• Eat some chicken noodle soup already! ("It 'coudent' hurt!")

• Drink apple juice or Orange Juice.

• Get regular exercise.
• Reduce stress.

Answer 2

when you blow your nose your snot is green! when u go to the doctor

Answer 3

Usually the same as normal - 37C or 98F

If you have a fever it's a bit up, and if you have hypothermia it's a bit down, but a cold, on its own, shouldn't change your body temperature.

Answer 4

above 38 centi degree

Answer 5

99of and up!

Answer 6

99.92