Cold or flu: find 10 differences

The exact reason of cold and sore throat will help to avoid mistakes in their treatment. And as a result - disease complications.

Flu, cold and SARS: symptoms

1. Deterioration in health at:

to cold - gradual,
SARS - fast,
flu - sudden: the person can even tell the exact time when understood that he got sick.

2. Body temperature at:

- to cold - it is rare higher than 37.5C
- The SARS - is always higher than 38C
- flu - 39-40C: accrues suddenly and remains within 3-4 days.

3. Intoxication at:

to cold - it is not expressed
The SARS - is, is expressed by increased fatigue
flu - is, it is brightly expressed by a fever, a severe headache, pain at the movement of eyeballs, sweating, a photophobia, an ache in muscles and joints.

4. Cold and congestion of a nose at:

to cold - appears during the first hours
The SARS - arises in the first days
flu - can appear as a complication not earlier, than for 2-3 days of developing of a disease.

5. Sneezing at:

to cold - appears after developing of cold
The SARS - always accompanies it
flu - most often is absent.

6. A sore throat and its reddening at:

to cold - the discomfort arises for the 2nd day after overcooling
The SARS - arises along with cough and has the expressed character
flu - appears for the 2nd day of a disease, besides, there is a cough caused by pain behind a breast.

7. Discomfort in eyes at:

to cold - any is not present
SARS - it is rare: if the bacterial infection joined
flu - often there is a reddening.

8. A headache at:

to cold - is absent
The SARS - can be if there are complications (antritis, tonsillitis, bronchitis)
flu - is and most often it is difficult to suffer it without anesthetics.

9. Increased fatigue at:

to cold - is absent
The SARS - can be when maintaining high temperature of more than a day
flu - is and remains even for 2-3 weeks after a disease.

10. Insomnia at:

to cold - is absent
The SARS - can arise against the background of high temperature
flu - is and remains even for 2-3 weeks after a disease.

SARS, flu and colds: what cannot be done

Knocking down of temperature warming.
Warming up by means of a charochka with pepper (it is no more than 50 ml) or bathtubs will approach only in case of cold. It is in that case really important to be warmed, and as soon as possible that the quantity of natural immune factors increased by mucous. At a SARS and flu warming will only break thermal control.

Decrease in temperature at 38.5C.
Fever is a remedy: the organism destroys pathogenic agents (viruses, bacteria). Therefore if you well transfer high temperature (there is no migraine, spasms, including - at children), then wait up to 39.5C. At the same time it is better to force down at once medicines of group of not steroids (an ibuprofen, a nurofen, ibunorm, arviproks). They influence the centers of thermal control in a brain. If to begin with other drugs supposedly these too strong, that is risk that temperature all the same will not fall, but there will be an overdose on medicines - all the same it is necessary to drink strong.

Reception of antibiotics without doctor.
Antibiotics break balance of microflora therefore can provoke development of bacterial quinsy on the contrary. Plus - it is possible that the sore throat is caused by fungi. And here medicines absolutely of other group are required already.

I will merge rinsings of a throat.
I will merge rinsings of a throat, as well as any medical broths - the psychotherapy as on a wall of a throat only its drops get is more get, and the mouth and molars are rinsed actually. And here if to include onions, honey, mustard, garlic, horse-radish in a diet, to drink teas with spices, then it and microbes will destroy and the local immunity will raise.

Aromatherapy.
Aromatization of the room - also psychology: in one centimeter of air about one million bacteria. Therefore to destroy a horde of pathogenic microorganisms it will not turn out.

Refusal of a shower.
The shower is contraindicated only if water too hot. And if warm and you wash fast, then it is good: at a disease on skin there are a lot of toxins which need to be washed away.

Drink of the acidified drinks.
Pathogenic microorganisms actually are afraid of alkali. Therefore drink mineral water, milk and vegetable juice at the rate of 50 ml on 1 kg of weight.

If you have a SARS or flu, then connect antiviral medicines (novirin, groprinozin, izoprinozin, normomed).