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Colds are the most prevalent infectious disease. Children average 3 to 8 colds per year (younger children and boys are on the higher end of the range). Colds occur mostly in the winter (even in areas with mild winters). In areas where there is no winter, colds are most common in the rainy season. Parents get about half as many colds as their children do. Moms tend to get at least one more cold per year than dads.
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Colds are most contagious during the first 2 to 4 days after symptoms appear, and may be contagious for up to 3 weeks. Your can catch a cold from person-to-person contact or by breathing in virus particles that are spread through the air by sneezing or coughing. Touching the mouth or nose after touching skin or another surface contaminated with a rhinovirus can ... spread a cold.
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Colds are caused by over 200 different viruses, known as rhinoviruses. Colds are not caused by the same viruses responsible for influenza. Colds spread through droplets from the coughing or sneezing of others with a cold or by hand contact with objects contaminated by someone with a cold. The incidence of colds is highest among children, and the incidence decreases with age because immunity to the virus causing the cold occurs after the illness. Gradually, immunity to a wide variety of viruses that cause colds is developed in adults. Children may have 10 colds a year, and adults may have 3 colds a year.
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Colds are caused by viruses. Antibiotics are ineffective with colds. They were so effective with other things, many patients demand them. The paradigm set up in the minds of most people now alive by the wonderful success of antibiotics has been to seek a pill or shot for any condition. It has been to put their lives in the hands of physicians, rather than take charge of their own health. This over reliance on one model of treatment has caused the premature failure of the system.
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Colds can be spread by airborne, contact, and droplet transmission, as well as by fomites. They can be prevented, both by decreasing the exposure to germs and ... by boosting your child’s immunity.
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