Cold and Flu

The flu virus constantly mutates, leading to new strains every year. Vaccine manufacturers update the vaccine annually to include the most prevalent strains, providing the best protection. This process helps ensure that the vaccine is effective against the specific flu viruses circulating each year.

No, I don't think so.

Yes! i believe so because I went through an ordeal for a whole week I was with the flu. It happened during the first week or second week of June.

If the influenza jab does not work, it could be due to several reasons such as mismatch between the vaccine and circulating strains, waning immunity over time, or exposure to a different strain. However, getting vaccinated is still important as it can reduce the severity of the illness and lower the risk of complications. It is also recommended to practice good hygiene and follow other preventive measures to further reduce the risk of getting the flu.

Yes, it did during the 2009 pandemic in which people in every country of the world eventually caught the easily transmitted swine flu (H1N1/09). It is still found in spots around the world as of the first of 2012, although it is in small outbreaks and is slowly declining with so many people getting vaccinated.

Your body has different ways to act, depending on the type of pathogen.

Many extracellular pathogens get attacked by antibodies, witch stick to the surface of the pathogen and can prevent the uptake of nutrients or from attaching to cells of your body. In many cases these antibodies also facilitate the uptake of pathogens by macrophages, who will digest them. In both cases the pathogen will die and thus be inactivated. The remains can be broken down in your body to serve as nutrients just as any type of food would.

Intracelluar pathogens are removed by killing the cells that host them. This happens by inducing cell lysis in these cells through the formation of pores in the cell membrane or interactions with Natural Killer Cells. The host cells will die and the pathogen will not be able to replicate, the celldebris is broken down to its building blocks (amino acides, nucleic acids e.d.) and recycled by the body.

You usually catch one directly from someone who has one, or from contact with their respiratory droplets from sneezes or coughs. You can get catch these viruses during the brief time they are in the air as you breathe or from touching where the droplets landed after they quickly fell out of the air (approximately a 6 foot diameter around the sneezer). There is additional information about how colds are spread in the related questions area.

Colds and influenza are caused by a large number of different viruses. Unlike told in the old and traditional stories from gramma, you can't catch any of these just by being cold or wet. You must be exposed to the virus to get it and you can catch it regardless of temperatures. See related questions below.

As to where one contracts a cold or flu, some of these infections are spread by direct contact (shaking hands for instance, which is one reason health professionals are so serious about proper hand washing). Others are from a more indirect transfer of the viruses. See the related questions section for more information about washing hands properly.

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Yes you can and hospitals will use this method on occasion. Also if a child has a high fever you can cool them down in a bath tub with cold water, but please keep in contact with your family doctor before doing so.

NO DONOT LISTEN TO THIS ADVICE ABOVE, A CHILD WITH A HIGH FEVER WILL GO INTO SHOCK IF YOU PLACE THEM IN COLD WATER. GIVE THEM 2 TEASPOONS OF CHILDRENS MOTRIN EVERY TWO HOURS, THEN SWITCH TO TYLENOL,ALTERNATE THIS METHOD MAKE SURE TO KEEP THEM HYDRATED WITH PEDIALYTE OR WATER IF THEY CAN KEEP IT DOWN.

Alcohol can be applied to a child or adult to break a fever but DO NOT use large quantities of it on the body.It should be preferably applied on the bottom of the feet or other small areas.By using significant amounts on large parts of the body has the potential to cause cerebral depression if absorb which can lead to neurological deficit or even death.Also, placing a child or even an adult with a high fever can cause them to go into shock or even cause seizures.

The laws in math were not invented by man, they were merely discovered by man. The universe operated by these mathematical principles long before man and will continue to long after we're gone.

Chest pain may be a primary sign of myocardial infarction (heart attack), pulmonary embolus (traveling blood clot), pneumonia, chronic lung disease and other serious conditions. You must consult the doctor or go to the emergency room immediately. Once they have determined the cause, they can treat you and the chest pain and relieve the pain with pain medications.

Hepatitis is mainly caused by viruses, such as hepatitis A, B, and C. Bacterial infections can also lead to inflammation of the liver but are less common causes of hepatitis.

Influenza (the flu) is an example of a disease associated with the lytic cycle. The virus enters the host cell, replicates rapidly, and eventually destroys the host cell to release newly formed viruses. This cycle contributes to the symptoms of the flu, such as fever, body aches, and respiratory issues.

Catarrh is usually caused by an infection such as the common cold. It often clears up by itself within a few days but a good cure for catarrh is to inhale the steam from hot water in a bowl that has been mixed with a small amount of eucalyptus oil.

It is an anti-inflammatory drug that requires a prescription and is most often used in treatment of arthritis. It would be first recommended that you use over the counter medications as fever reducers or for aches and pains caused by the flu, such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. If those are not sufficient, then consult a health care professional or your pharmacist for further advice. Never use medications for any purpose other than that for which they were prescribed.

The process is not fully understood, but some of the more current thoughts are that the flu prefers and thrives better in the humidity of colder weather (drier absolute humidity) compared to humidity in other seasons. It is thought that it might be only the humidity level differences that link viral flu and cold infections to the fall and winter seasons, but, as has often been cited, perhaps there is also a component of the closer proximity of people to each other indoors in the cold weather which allows for easier direct transmission of the viruses. Scientific studies have ruled out a role of weather temperature differences. It is proven that you don't get colds from being cold.

Other reasons are sometimes given, for example, one thought is that it is the lowered amount of available sunlight in these seasons and shorter length of time periods that people are outside in the sun that result in lower Vitamin D (the "sunshine vitamin") levels. Deficiency of Vitamin D can impact the immune system negatively, but there is not consensus among the medical community on how much impact this actually may or may not have on infection rates.

Another factor that gets discussed is that there may be an effect from lowered amounts of sunlight, especially ultraviolet sunlight, available in those seasons which helps to de-activate the viruses.

You are correct that it is not the cold temperature that gives us colds, but rather the microorganisms that move from person to person during the "cold and flu season" that make us sick with the flu or a common cold.

You can catch them all.

The virus spread around the world and killed millions of people

Rhinovirus is not a bacteria. It is a virus. The name means 'nose virus' and often causes what we call the common cold.

heart rate of seven year old girl with fever of 102

it does not involve drugs, surgery, or other invasive treatments. It is also greatly beneficial in conditions created by the mind rather than a physical condition.

Keep in contact with your doctor and it's time to go in and see the doctor anyway if you are feeling so weak. Let the doctor delivering the baby worry about your cold and feeling weak. They are there to make decisions and they'll make good ones to keep you and your baby safe. Don't fret too much about this and leave it to the pros, but meanwhile get into that doctor's office! I have found that once labor starts whatever illness you have at the time takes a back seat. You don't notice it so much and some of the processes in your body during labor tend to mask some symptoms - ie lots of endorphins are released which kill some pain etc. Somehow your body gets an extra surge of energy although labor is eventually tiring in itself. Often your body seems to know not to go into labor when it's under the stress of illness so I'm hoping this is what will happen for you too!l

They didnt have any medicines or vaccinations for the 1918 influenza in New Zealand. People just had to suffer!

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