Fever, headaches and tiredness, how to know if it is an influenza or a cold? You cannot make a mistake. In the vast majority cases, influenza is accompanied by such symptoms as you cannot merge it with a cold or another winter infection.

Influenza is much more aggressive than cold

In case of cold, the nose runs, they feel weak and tired. Sometimes muscular pain happens, but they are not very intense. Also a person got cold can have a little of fever and headaches, but these symptoms are not much marked.

In the comparing, influenza is much more aggressive. Symptoms are very intense and of violent appearance (high fever, make tired important, big weakness, muscular pain, aches) with a feeling of intense general feeling of faintness (they feel ‘poor ‘). These symptoms nail generally in the bed in some hours and for several days.

It is therefore not so much the nature of the symptoms that differentiates an influenza of a cold, that their intensity and their suddenness.

What is interest to be able to differentiate a cold of an influenza?

It is primordial. Because if there is no treatment against the cold, benign viral illness which recovers spontaneously in some days, on the other hand, we have an antiviral medicament against influenza (Tamiflu ®). This treatment allows to cure an influenza in one-two days or to attenuate symptoms strongly, instead of imposing on you the bed for at least a week.

To cure or to attenuate symptoms? Difference is fond of the speed with which the treatment after the beginning of symptoms is taken.

Indeed, to be efficient, Tamiflu ® must be taken as early as possible, that is to say in 24 hours according to the beginning of symptoms (at the latest in 48 hours). It is therefore primordial to consult his doctor very fast so that he prescribes you this treatment.

At the adult, he comes in the form of capsules: a capsule twice a day during 5 days. At the child of more than a year, it is about a potable solution, to adapt according to its weight, also twice a day during 5 days.

Finally, Tamiflu ® is also pointed out in prevention at the persons who were in contact with a person infected by the virus: a tablet one time a day during ten days.

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