🚩The common cold is a viral infection in your upper respiratory tract. Viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics.
- 🔹Runny or stuffy nose
- 🔹Sore throat
- 🔹Cough
- 🔹Congestion
- 🔹Slight body aches or a mild 🔹headache
- 🔹Sneezing
- 🔹Low-grade fever
However, seek medical attention if you observe:
- 🔸Fever greater than 101.3 F (38.5 C) lasting more than three days
- 🔸Fever returning after a fever-free period
- 🔸Shortness of breath
- 🔸Wheezing
- 🔸Severe sore throat, headache or sinus pain
- 🔸Generally feeling unwell
🔴CAUSES OF COMMON COLD A cold virus enters your body through your mouth, eyes or nose. The virus can spread through droplets in the air when someone who is sick coughs, sneezes or come in contact with your hands.
🔴 COMMON COLD AS NATURAL HEALING PROCESS
Believe it or not, those annoying symptoms you're experiencing are part of the natural healing process -- evidence that the immune system is battling illness. For instance, a fever is your body's way of trying to kill viruses by creating a hotter-than-normal environment. Also, a fever's hot environment makes germ-killing proteins in your blood circulate more quickly.
Coughing is another productive symptom; it clears your breathing passages of thick mucus that can carry germs to your lungs and the rest of your body.
These symptoms are normal but these can irritate you so you can avoid it through home remedies which are:
- 👉🏻Using warm salt water for gargling
- 👉🏻Taking warm shower
- 👉🏻Using ginger
- 👉🏻Taking chicken soup
