Influenza and colds, SARS: how often can you get sick?
The flu is not as often as a common cold or SARS, but it is more dangerous. Often the flu is called any manifestations of a cold with an increase in temperature. But this is far from the case. Different viruses can affect the body, and the flu is a disease that the virus provokes and nothing else.
- The probability of getting an infant is much higher than the flu. In addition, people are not necessarily sick every year, although everyone gets long.
- Just such a situation led to the fact that people are condescending to the disease, believing that if they were sick last winter, then it was necessarily flu. And if I didn’t have to hurt so much, then the vaccine is not needed. That's just in really he could have only an ordinary cold.
- Usually, when people get out of the flu, they begin to understand how it differs from SARS. Although, there are situations when it is difficult to do it. For example, the paragraph virus can give symptoms of mild and medium in shape. In this case, symptoms may not appear for some time.
How the flu differs from SARS and colds: comparison of signs
- ARVIs are infected most often in a contact method through the surfaces and directly from a sick person. The flu can be picked up by airborne droplets when sneezing, conversation.
- For example, the flu is characterized by a sharp rise in temperature, but in the presented situation it can only appear the next day. This is a fairly insidious feature, because it can be sharply bad when the moment is completely inappropriate.
- It is also important to pay attention to the temperature itself. So, with SARS, it rarely rises more than 39 degrees. What can not be said about the flu. Although, sometimes other infections provoke such a high temperature, for example, enterovirus infection.
- SARS and influenza have the time of the manifestation of respiratory symptoms. For example, with acute respiratory viral infections in the sore throat can appear immediately, but the temperature rises only later. The flu is manifested, first of all, by temperature.
- The number and severity of the symptoms are also different. The flu is characterized only by a strong cough and a sense of congestion in the chest. The rest of the symptomatics is rarely manifested. As a rule, they can appear if the body affects a bacterial infection.
- The flu is also manifested by a smoke in the whole body and headache. It is also important that symptoms are manifested even before the manifestation of the main features and therefore it is the main thing to determine the disease. And besides, SARS does not give weakness and malaise. They can appear, but not immediately.
- It is also important to note that both diseases differ in duration. So, with SARS, the temperature can stay for 2-3 days, and when the temperature decreases, the patient becomes much better. If the flu takes place, then the temperature remains up to 4-5 days and even after its fall, malaise still does not pass to two weeks.
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