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COLD AND FLU CARE
How Long Does the Flu Last?
How long does the flu last? Five to seven days, usually, but not for everyone. The flu shot may not prevent the flu, but it can make the shorter or less severe.
Category,
COLD AND FLU CARE
Sleep Loss Increases Your Chance of Infection
Here’s more evidence that getting fewer than six hours of sleep is a bad idea, even if you’ve convinced yourself you’re fine.
Category,
COLD AND FLU CARE
What Is the Common Cold?
The common cold is caused by several different viruses, with symptoms that tend to go away within 10 days. They usually occur in the winter and spring.
Category,
COLD AND FLU CARE
What Is Sinusitis?
What is sinusitis? Generally, it’s when you have a “stuffy” nose. And, yes, that’s the bottom line, but you may need to find out why this is happening to you.
Cold and Flu Season Center
Learn about symptoms, treatment, and prevention of colds and the flu during the fall and winter months, their busiest time of the year.
Infectious Disease Center
What is an infectious disease? Learn about diseases caused by bacteria, how long pink eye is contagious, how you get MRSA, and much more.
What Is Pneumonia?
What is pneumonia? When air sacs in your lungs fill with fluid, as the result of an infection, you have pneumonia. Usually a complication of the flu, severe cases can be life-threatening.
Symptoms of a Cold
Symptoms of a cold appear 1 to 3 days after exposure to a virus and vary from person to person. Here's a list of cold symptoms and solutions.
What Everyone Should Know Know About Measles
You and your children will be safe if you get the vaccine.
Should You Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever?
You can avoid the flu every year with one simple step: Get a flu vaccination.
What Is the Flu?
What the flu is may surprise you. It’s not one single virus. There are several types and frequent mutations. That’s why you need to get a flu shot every year.
Hand Washing Helps Control Infection Outbreaks
Washing your hands can help prevent colds, the flu, COVID-19, and other viruses. Here's what you should know.
What Is Whooping Cough?
Whooping cough (pertussis) is a contagious illness. It causes intense fits (paroxysms) of coughing. It mainly affects babies and young children.
A Simple Way to Keep the Flu Away
Unfortunately, some people think that getting a flu vaccine is too much trouble or costs too much. Or they are sure that a flu shot will make them sick or make them more likely to catch the flu.
How to Prevent the Spread of Infection in the Kitchen
What is strep throat? About a third of children with a sore throat have a strep infection. Rare in children younger than three, strep usually occurs between the ages of five and 15.
Where Germs Hide
Neckties and handbags carry more microbes than you might guess.
Home Remedies for Coughing
Try these home remedies for coughing, many of them probably in your kitchen. They are designed to soothe that nagging and persistent cough.