How to tell if you have a cold, flu, or just allergies

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 6 лис 2016
  • It can be hard to tell the difference between having a cold, flu, or just allergies. NYU Langone Director of General Otolaryngology Erich P. Voigt, MD, breaks down the symptoms.
    --------------------------------------------------
    Follow BI Video on Twitter: bit.ly/1oS68Zs
    Follow BI on Facebook: bit.ly/1W9Lk0n
    Read more: www.businessinsider.com/
    --------------------------------------------------
    Business Insider is the fastest growing business news site in the US. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI Video team focuses on technology, strategy and science with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders - the digital generation.
  • Наука та технологія

КОМЕНТАРІ • 62

  • @LeeLooDM
    @LeeLooDM 7 років тому +29

    Thank you... I was just wondering about that, I have several days now with cold symptoms without fever... Now I know is allergies

  • @maddie9334
    @maddie9334 3 роки тому +31

    I have a sore throat, a headache, a stuffy nose, I’m really sweaty and icky hot, but I don’t have a fever-

    • @radvelvetcakez
      @radvelvetcakez Рік тому +5

      Me too! I don't know what's going on

    • @selfkylie
      @selfkylie 10 місяців тому +4

      Same😭

    • @blindlight7846
      @blindlight7846 3 місяці тому

      That’s because when you have a fever, you will feel chilly. That’s because your body is trying to regulate itself whereas your immune system is trying to burn the pathogen out

    • @RAY-THE-WAY
      @RAY-THE-WAY 3 місяці тому +2

      I had that for almost a week but then developed a fever on day 6

    • @alexanderacostaosorio
      @alexanderacostaosorio Місяць тому +1

      Covid variant

  • @bslay4r
    @bslay4r 7 років тому +23

    You can "beat" the cold in 2-3 days if you take ~10 gr or even more vitamin C per day with a lots of water/tea. It worked for me a couple of times.

    • @IDrawToothpicks
      @IDrawToothpicks 4 місяці тому +1

      I swear I've had a slightly irritated throat for a few days. Almost allergy like feeling but I thought that once before and it turned into bad cold last year. It hasn't gotten worse "yet". Each day I wake up feels the same. Knock on wood.
      First day I felt my throat feeling funny, I took two packets of emergen c 1 in the morning 1 in the afternoon. Drinking allot of water too.
      I'm on day 3 of feeling like this and it hasn't gotten worse, do you think I can beat it? I'm with my boyfriend right now and debating whether or not to go back to my mom's for a week
      P.s. I'm taking 1 packet a day now of emergen c, it's funny though when you look online, studies keep saying they don't have proof etc that taking emergen c helps colds or shortens colds I think that's because they want you to end up at urgent care so we can give them money. 150$ is what we ended up spending because I was out of state. There's no harm in taking it to try to prevent a cold. Don't listen to the Internet I say :)

    • @Amtheonethatisreal
      @Amtheonethatisreal 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@IDrawToothpicksbro my cold was coughing up blood

  • @user-ud3gv5es1e
    @user-ud3gv5es1e 6 років тому +24

    "It'll be over in a week if you dont treat it it'll be over in 7 days"?????????????????????????????

    • @sq3896
      @sq3896 6 років тому +1

      Waterfallx_ PlaysRoblox! true i dont get it

    • @rxwandt4r795
      @rxwandt4r795 6 років тому +5

      Oml you guys don't get it?!

    • @Kelo60
      @Kelo60 6 років тому +1

      Work week or 7 days.

    • @dakotalandreth1018
      @dakotalandreth1018 5 років тому +9

      @@Kelo60 No, the joke is that it doesn't make a difference, he even pointed out that it's just for support and doesn't help make it go away faster

    • @dristidas3532
      @dristidas3532 26 днів тому

      he is saying that either way it’s gonna take a week

  • @robloxtrends7464
    @robloxtrends7464 6 років тому +13

    I got a HORRIBLE flu last week I felt so mutch better (I was sick for 2 weeks) and I don’t feel god now again🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @haydenriva3632
    @haydenriva3632 6 років тому +3

    Thank you so much I'm feeling really sick but I only have e a virus upper respiratory infection what should I take

  • @bing755
    @bing755 4 роки тому +5

    Corona has brought me here.

  • @MewoHehe
    @MewoHehe 7 місяців тому +2

    I have a headache, sore throat, cough, runny/ stuffy nose, red and hot ears, hot face, and chills. What is going on? 😭

  • @JustAnArabGuy
    @JustAnArabGuy Місяць тому +1

    thx good to know

  • @armandacallen
    @armandacallen 6 років тому +4

    its Monday and im sick and I have cold it HAS TO GET BETTER I CANT MISS THAT MUcH SCHOOOOOL!!!!!!!

  • @ambersarofian5807
    @ambersarofian5807 6 років тому +3

    Now I am wondering if I have allergies because my eyes are itchy sometimes and I get a stuffy nose a lot.

  • @rubyinfamous
    @rubyinfamous 4 роки тому +3

    thanks! i just have a stuffy nose, a little sore throat but it’s gone, and a small fever! yet it’s gone, since i’ve had lots of cold things and fluids with popsicles here and there. a small cold is probably the case, i don’t have a high fever nor bad symptoms. hope i get better soon!

  • @bennelson450
    @bennelson450 6 років тому +6

    I'm eating skittles and can't taste them it sucks

  • @jaylam.8
    @jaylam.8 18 днів тому

    i have the chills , a bad cough and a stuffy nose so idk

  • @ilovegod8946
    @ilovegod8946 3 роки тому +1

    Today if you had I sneezing contest I would win I sneezed like 50 times today and I have a sore throat and stuffy and runny nose I don't have a fever though but my eye was itching yesterday and I itched it and now the end of my eye is hurting me

  • @Primrose685
    @Primrose685 4 місяці тому

    I am very light headed and humid rn

  • @megameggs
    @megameggs 3 роки тому

    I’m 7and a half and I feel like I’m gonna throw up my mom said I should watch this

  • @Donayaka
    @Donayaka 6 років тому

    My head hurts and I have a cold and a cough and I feel dizzy I little my head really hurtss

  • @JendralFakboi
    @JendralFakboi Рік тому

    i do fasting and do workout shirtless in the cold i guess im gone crazy

  • @annethomas2186
    @annethomas2186 5 років тому

    i think i have allergies or im sick beacuse my eyes are watering and my nose its stuffy and im sneezing...I dont know what i have

  • @anaisesquivel6677
    @anaisesquivel6677 3 місяці тому +1

    This didn’t tell me anything

  • @charlesnagel7445
    @charlesnagel7445 3 роки тому +3

    I have a itchy eyes and stuffy nose so I think it's allergies

    • @KILLER91499
      @KILLER91499 9 місяців тому +1

      Same here but I had it for 1 or 2 weeks I don’t know

    • @KILLER91499
      @KILLER91499 9 місяців тому

      I hate it

  • @lxvliiq4647
    @lxvliiq4647 3 роки тому

    I was sick last time I couldn’t tase anything lol and I lost my appetite but my mom forced me to eat lol it’s disgusting

  • @thechickennuggetlovers777
    @thechickennuggetlovers777 7 років тому

    Nooooo I have allergies to x( polling so I cant go outside 😕😭

  • @acromaticnaga6977
    @acromaticnaga6977 4 роки тому

    My lip color changing 😔yyy n i fell awkward with my taste

  • @walfred1733
    @walfred1733 5 років тому

    So if I have allergy’s do I stay home or not

    • @selfkylie
      @selfkylie 10 місяців тому

      If they get worse yes but if there not bad then no😊

  • @kandy1643
    @kandy1643 6 років тому +1

    I think I have allergies

  • @anessamartinez5828
    @anessamartinez5828 5 років тому

    Who else is here getting the sniffles

  • @sohamgupta5222
    @sohamgupta5222 9 місяців тому +1

    When I go to my grandmother's house then I usually get a stuffy nose and itching in eyes and running eyes as well like just the next day . If I reach there at night the next morning boom I have a cold . I don't understand what's happening to me and rn I am here because I have all these symptoms and I am at my grandmother's house only. Ik i am allergic to something but I don't know what and it has been happening to me for many years . What to do ?

    • @shewants6ore
      @shewants6ore 8 місяців тому

      dont go to her house💅🏼🤭😊

    • @sohamgupta5222
      @sohamgupta5222 8 місяців тому

      @@shewants6ore Naa .man even though I get sick I am always excited to go to her house because I have so many memories there. I get so much fun too 🤝😌

  • @iitocaprecious9699
    @iitocaprecious9699 7 місяців тому

    “if you do it will be better in a week if u dont it will be better in 7 days” my guy, a week is 7 days 💀

    • @historiareiss1100
      @historiareiss1100 3 дні тому

      Yeah that’s the point, medicated or not you do heal faster💀

  • @ariuhnuh3396
    @ariuhnuh3396 6 років тому

    Isn’t 7 days the same as a week?? Uhm wtf