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Cold and Flu Questions

Total questions: 885

Should you feed a fever or starve a cold?
Popularity: 214

Can you catch a cold from being cold?
Popularity: 191

How do you stop an over-production of saliva and phlegm in your throat?
Popularity: 185

How long after being exposed to a cold virus does it take before you start having symptoms?
Popularity: 167

Why are there red bumps in the back of your throat?
Popularity: 152

When are you most contagious when you have a cold?
Popularity: 149

Does zinc echinacea or vitamin C help a cold?
Popularity: 141

How are you most likely to catch a cold from someone else?
Popularity: 141

Can you catch a cold by sleeping with a fan on?
Popularity: 140

How long can a cold virus live in the air?
Popularity: 134

Can you get the flu twice in the same season?
Popularity: 134

How should you treat a cold or flu?
Popularity: 133

How do you avoid catching a cold or flu?
Popularity: 126

Can you catch the same cold twice if you've already gotten over it?
Popularity: 125

What does it mean to have a chest cold?
Popularity: 121

When you have a cold will the person living with you catch a cold also?
Popularity: 121

Can the same cold virus cause different symptoms in different people?
Popularity: 120

Can you have two colds at the same time?
Popularity: 119 | Needs Answer

Why does the flu have a season?
Popularity: 117

Does stress weaken your immune system?
Popularity: 115

What is the Spanish flu?
Popularity: 114

Why would your leg muscles ache when you have a cold?
Popularity: 112

When you have a cold what should you eat besides not eating dairy?
Popularity: 111

Would the flu go away if everyone that had it was quarantined at the same time?
Popularity: 108

What are colds and flus and what is the difference?
Popularity: 108

How do you get pneumonia?
Popularity: 107

If you have a cold why would you have a reddish rash or red spots on the upper front of your body?
Popularity: 107

Are people with allergies at greater risk for catching a cold or flu?
Popularity: 103

What is wrong if you blow your nose and there is blood?
Popularity: 102

Is it safe to run in cold weather when you have a cold or flu?
Popularity: 101

Are people who get regular exercise less susceptible to a cold or the flu?
Popularity: 101

How do you avoid giving a cold or flu to others?
Popularity: 100

Is there a new strain of virus going around if you have had a cold for four weeks with mostly sinus congestion and no end in sight?
Popularity: 97

How long can the noro virus live in the open air?
Popularity: 95

Can you catch a cold when you have symptoms or is it only contagious when you are in incubation period before you start sneezing and feeling ill?
Popularity: 95

What would be making your gums very sore if you have had a cold or flu-like conditions for more than sixty days?
Popularity: 91

What should people do when they catch a cold?
Popularity: 90

What are some symptoms of the common cold?
Popularity: 88

Why is sneezing contagious?
Popularity: 87

When there is a possibility of pregnancy are you more susceptible to colds or the flu?
Popularity: 83

If you get really hot indoors and then go outside in cold weather can you get sick?
Popularity: 82

What is a pandemic flu?
Popularity: 81

Can you give a cold back to the person who gave it to you?
Popularity: 81

Can you catch the same cold twice?
Popularity: 78

Can you catch a cold by working inside a freezer on a job?
Popularity: 77

Do antibacterial cleaners and hand gels kill germs?
Popularity: 75

Can you drink rubbing alcohol as an internal disinfectant?
Popularity: 72

If you are a pretty healthy person but are sick for a week with nausea exhaustion and headaches every day is that the flu or something else?
Popularity: 69

Is it normal for your head to hurt when coughing?
Popularity: 67

Is there a medicine that will help you get your voice back from your cold?
Popularity: 67

If you give someone a cold and they die is it considered murder?
Popularity: 66

If you hold in a sneeze will you blow a hole in your brain?
Popularity: 66

Does cold weather cause you to get sick?
Popularity: 64

Can a fever cause blisters on the top and bottom of your tongue?
Popularity: 63

Can you get the flu directly after you have gotten over it and now your partner has caught it from you?
Popularity: 59

What is the incubation period of the norovirus?
Popularity: 59

What does drinking hot honey and lemon actually do for you if anything when you have a cold?
Popularity: 58

What are the main causes of catching a cold?
Popularity: 57

Can you catch the Noro virus a second time?
Popularity: 54

What is a virus?
Popularity: 54

If you had a virus this week and catch another one about a week later is it a different one?
Popularity: 54

What can you take for a cold during pregnancy?
Popularity: 54

Can you apply rubbing alcohol for a fever?
Popularity: 54

What can you take for a cold when you're 25 weeks pregnant?
Popularity: 52

What type of virus is the h5n1 bird flu virus and how does it spread and how can you remain protected from it?
Popularity: 50

Should you not eat ice cream when you have a cold?
Popularity: 49

Can you catch the norovirus more than once?
Popularity: 49

What is the dosage of oregano oil for sinus infection?
Popularity: 47

How long can a flu virus last on objects like toothbrushes and toys?
Popularity: 47

Can you have bronchitis and a cold at the same time?
Popularity: 46

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