Health officials are warning that this year’s cold and flu
season will be especially nasty—one of the worst in recent history. Bolles Clinic
has everything you need not only to survive through cold and
flu season, but to thrive through it.
As someone savvy in preventive medicine, you know that the best
remedy for cold or flu is keeping yourself from getting sick in the
first place.
Over two hundred viruses are responsible for causing the common
cold, which is an infection of the upper respiratory tract. Cold
symptoms include head congestion, sore throat, coughing, sneezing,
headache, fever, restlessness, watery eyes, aches, and pains. Most
colds clear up on their own within a week to ten days, but
occasionally a cold can develop into a more serious illness such as
bronchitis, pneumonia, or flu. It isn’t uncommon for a healthy adult
to get an average of two colds per year, and for children—who have
not yet built up immunity to as many germs as an adult—to get
many.
Adults who come down with colds and flu more often than once or
twice per year may be showing signs of improper immune function.
When your immune system is strong and functioning properly, it is
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