Explanation: A cold or flu, also known as "influenza", is caused by a variety of viruses that can affect our airways. It is one of the rapidly spreading diseases that can spread very quickly and easily through coughing or sneezing of a person suffering from this disease. 

 A cold is a disease that can spread even through touch. When the symptoms of cold start appearing in people of adult age, then this disease would have spread in their body by touching it two days before. And if this disease occurs, then after it starts, you can stay for seven days or more and less. What we mean to say is that when you will see the symptoms of this disease, this disease will have spread in your body, so we have called it a fast and easily spreading disease.



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Severity: In most cases, the disease of cold is not considered serious, but it definitely remains uneasiness in the body. But the flu (which we also call influenza) creates many problems. Often these young children, old people as well as people suffering from a disease for a long time can easily get sick, because their immunity has been reduced, that is to say, those whose immunity will be less, they are more affected by it. and will suffer from it for a long time.

This disease can cause great harm to the following types of patients with severe cold: 

  • To the elderly above 65 years of age,
  • Newborns, 
  • Suffering from heart diseases,
  • Suffering from diseases like bronchitis and asthma, 
  • Suffering from kidney disease, diabetic patients,
  • To steroids,
  • To those undergoing treatment for cancer. 

If we talk about some complications related to cold, then it includes lack of water in the body and pneumonia caused by bacteria. But even more serious conditions can occur in patients suffering from diabetes and asthma, whose chest problems and asthma patients are at risk of heart failure. Talking about statistics , according to statistics, 2.5 to 5 lakh people die in a year due to this simple-looking disease. In countries with heavy industrialization, the death toll from this disease is even higher among people over 65 years of age.

If a large number of people in a country start getting influenza, then it can spread like an epidemic, which can be quite terrible.

Symptoms: Usually we are not able to differentiate between influenza (flu) and chills, but there are some symptoms that differentiate cold and chills from each other.

Although the symptoms of cold and chills include some common-looking symptoms like runny nose, phlegm and sore throat etc. But the symptoms of cold are more than this, which makes it different from cold, those symptoms are as follows.

Symptoms of a cold: 

  1. Headache.
  2. Pain in knees or joints.
  3. Getting high fever.
  4. Feeling tired.
  5. Shivering or sweating.
  6. Stomach related diseases such as nausea and vomiting (these symptoms occur in both children and adults).

Important Note: Note that these symptoms are similar to the symptoms of the world famous pandemic "Covid19", so we request you to get yourself examined by the doctor once.

These symptoms can last for a week or less, while the weakness and fatigue caused by this disease can last for several weeks.


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Prevention: As we know that a cold is caused by a virus infection, in this antibiotics cannot be effective unless the patient has some other disease related to bacteria. But other problems related to it like headache and rest of the body can be treated with painkillers like paracetamol etc., but it has no effect on cold.

If you have a cold, you should take the following precautions:

  1. Stay as safe as possible at your home, this will not spread the disease any more.
  2. Avoid contact with people until you get well.
  3. Wash your hands thoroughly with handwash or hand sanitizer etc. It keeps you away from germs.
  4. Keep taking rest, keep the body warm.
  5. Use safe liquid food or drink food as much as possible.
  6. Keep away from alcohol and smoking. 

Use separate utensils for the patient suffering from this disease and keep cleaning it regularly.

Medicines: Talking about medicines, the main advice of health experts in the world and all kinds of government and cooperative agencies around the world is that you should keep taking vaccine every year to avoid this disease, it increases your immunity.

There are many types of medicines available in the world today, which we can divide into two parts, these two parts include Flu Shots or Flu Jabs (Influenza Vaccine) and Nasal In Spray.

Flu Shot or Flu Jabs (Influenza Vaccine): These are given through a syringe, usually in the arm. It can be given from children above the age of six months to older people, it is often given in the arm.

Most flu shots or flu shots contain only the influenza virus but are inactivated. Our body's immune system recognizes those dormant viruses as attacking viruses, after which if more virus cells of the same type appear again in the body, which are active, then antibodies are produced in the body, Vaccines keep changing as the number of viruses increases. Click to get more information related to this.

Nasal in Spray: This is a prescription drug that comes in the form of a spray bottle. This medicine is also used to treat asthma and hay fever. Along with this, there are many other uses of it, about which you can find out by searching on Google.

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