HOW TO TELL WHETHER YOU HAVE A COLD

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Without taking a lab test for antibody titer, no physician can positively identify whether you have a cold or flu. And the test takes so long to culture out that the dysfunction could be nearly over before the answer was known. Hence doctors rely on physical symptoms to diagnose an upper respiratory tract infection.

The symptoms are often so clear that you can make a fairly accurate diagnosis yourself.

Cold symptoms appear rather gradually and tend to be localized in the nasal area, spreading later down to the throat and larynx or bronchial tubes. The most common cold symptoms are a scratchy throat and sneezing, sniffles, watery eyes, and a stuffed-up, runny nose. Fever is not common in adults and is usually slight. A sore throat, a mild cough, and viral laryngitis, hoarseness or voicelessness may occur during later stages. A cold may cause a higher fever in children but high temperatures are rare in adults. A mild headache may occur. Symptoms actually experienced depend on the specific virus causing the infection.

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