Cold is the best known and most common disease, whose signs are easily recognized by everyone. It becomes apparent through his neck pain or redness, headache and fever, stuffy nose or drainage of nasal secretions, sneezing, difficult breathing through your nose and sometimes fever. They appear 2-3 days after infection and lasts between 2 and 14 days, over two thirds of patients are healing in less than a week. If symptoms persist for more than two weeks, means that this result is more than a cold, it may be a result of allergies.
Causes
Although there are over 200 different viruses that cause colds, a percentage of 30-50% of cases are caused by cold viruses unidentified.
Cold weather is a factor conducive to cold?
Although many people believe that colds occur after exposure to cold or when children are bareheaded. Studies have shown that these assumptions influence the appearance slightly cold. This nasal polyps, the Allergies that affect the nasal mucosa and stress prolonged increase the risk of colds.
Symptoms
- Neck pain or redness of his
- Headache
- Fever
- Stuffy nose or drainage of nasal secretions
- Sneezing
- Shortness of breath through your nose.
They appear to 2-3 days after infection and lasts between 2 and 14 days, over two thirds of patients are healing in less than a week. If symptoms persist for more than two weeks, means that this result is more than a cold, it may be a result of allergies.
Cold may be complicated or sometimes associated with a bacterial infection of the throat (tonsils) or sinus, occurring severe facial pain in the sinuses, higher fever, neck removed secretions through coughing, in which more is needed medical attention
Transmission mode
Respiratory viruses are transmitted by different ways, depending on the type of virus:
- Inhalation of droplets suspended in air which can be found there for a long time;
- Inhalation of relatively large particles of respiratory secretions, which get in the air for a short time;
- Through contact with infected respiratory secretions or objects surrounding skin, touching the eyes or nose.
Epidemiology studies have shown that the risk of transmission of infection from a patient is between the second and fourth day of its contact when the virus in secretions is highest. Because of the existence of a large number of viruses and the fact that each virus contains its own antigen not yet a vaccine that combines all existing antigens and could prevent colds
Treatment
In uncomplicated cases, requires only symptomatic treatment:
- Bed rest;
- Aspirin and paracetamol for fever and headache;
- Increased fluid intake;
- Gargling with warm salt water, vitamin C.
Some studies have shown that the current excessive use of aspirin increases the risk of Reye syndrome. Reye's syndrome is a complication of influenza, which is characterized by predilection damage to pine liver and brain and can also be reached coma and sometimes death. Reye's syndrome is attributed to consumption of aspirin in flu time. Reye's syndrome usually occurs in children and adolescents. For this reason, it is best to avoid use of aspirin during flu. Antibiotics are not necessary, because they do not kill viruses, they are useful only if bacterial complications as sinusitis or throat infections..
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