Autumn and winter are seasons that are conducive to suffer colds or colds and flu. Both processes are infections, while sharing certain characteristics are different diseases.
What is it?
Influenza is an acute respiratory disease caused by virus “Influenza”. The gateway is respiratory virus.
The virus is spread by droplets from coughs and sneezes of infected people. Its incubation period is approximately 48 hours. The disease occurs between 48 and 72 hours after being infected.
Symptoms last an average of 5 to 7 days. Influenza is a highly contagious disease that spreads quickly.The common cold is a viral infection of the upper airway. There are over 200 types of viruses that cause colds.
What are the symptoms?
In the most common flu symptoms include high fever (up to 40 degrees C), headache, sore throat, muscle aches, dry cough, weakness and fatigue. Other less frequent symptoms are painful and watery eyes, nasal congestion and runny nose.
The common cold three most common symptoms are runny (runny nose), runny nose and sneezing. You may also see eye irritation, sore throat and cough.
How long?
Without complications the duration of flu symptoms is between 5 and 10 days. The fever usually lasts from 3 to 5 days. Other symptoms can last for days as a dry cough (7 to 10 days) and fatigue can last up to 2 weeks.
In the cold usually last a week, a cough may be a couple of weeks remaining.
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