Colds Last Longer Than Most Think

Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Many people have been complaining this extended winter about colds that will not go away or colds that seem to go away but come back stronger within a week or two.

However, doctors say that it’s not that colds are leaving and coming back.  It’s that colds can take longer to overcome and that because of so many different viruses that cause colds, it’s possible to get two different cold viruses back-to-back.

The common cold can last up to two weeks for the initial symptoms and the coughing that goes with it could last for weeks after the virus had been cleared from the body.

In the case of someone getting consecutive colds, some doctors believe that because the body’s immune system is weakened from dealing with one cold it leaves the body open to a different strain of cold virus.  There are more than 200 known viruses that can cause the common cold.

The average adult gets 2 to 5 colds per year, children can have between 7 and 10.  In the U.S. every year, about one billion Americans will get a cold.

2 thoughts on “Colds Last Longer Than Most Think

  1. Doses of low-level ionising radiation, such as that coming from the ongoing Fukishima air and
    ocean radiation releases which reports on ENEWS.org are saying are reaching the US, including
    Hawaii, Alaska and the western coast – are known to suppress the immune system. Radioactive
    particles are reported to be breathable and lodge in the lungs. This is something to consider,
    and take precautions until the government begins testing that was discontinued by the EPA only
    2 weeks after the initial tsunami-related nuclear emergency.

  2. People have low immune systems due to the junk food they eat like to much sugar to name one. Eating live food builds the immune system and having proper gut flora is huge in keeping the immune system operating fully.

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