I’ve been suffering from a common cold for a few days now.
But remember “Thumper’s Rule.” In the movie *Bambi*, Thumper the rabbit remarks that Bambi is wobbly and Thumper’s parents tell him: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”
Ah! Something nice to say about the common cold?
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Back to the basics: Alex, *what is best in life!?* To read Wikipedia, of course!
Here’s something for you. If only I had followed this advice:
There is no vaccine for the common cold. The primary methods of prevention are hand washing; not touching the eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands; and staying away from sick people.
– Common cold on wikipedia
Ah, and there’s more:
Rhinovirus-caused colds are most infectious during the first three days of symptoms; they are much less infectious afterwards.
That is to say, the hand washing must continue until the very end. There’s no way around it. They are less infectious, but not quite gone. And the cold lasts for a very long time, too!
Symptoms may begin within 16h of exposure and typically peak two to four days after onset. They usually resolve in seven to ten days, but some can last for up to three weeks. The average duration of cough is eighteen days and in some cases people develop a post-viral cough which can linger after the infection is gone. In children, the cough lasts for more than ten days in 35–40% of cases and continues for more than 25 days in 10%.
I’ve heard it say that the common cold comes for a week and goes for a week.
#Life
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We have a saying that cured cold lasts for 7 days and uncured for a week. There is something true about that.
– Peter Kotrčka 2019-12-10 02:49 UTC
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Haha! Apparently having a headache and a running nose makes for better blogging, somehow. Weird!
– Alex Schroeder 2019-12-10 09:41 UTC