Brain Tweezers – Colds and flu

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Many people refer to the common cold as ‘the flu’ but influenza is a more serious respiratory infection that usually makes the customer sick enough to go to bed. The flu tends to affect the chest and is usually accompanied by a fever, and limb and joint pain. The common cold only affects the upper respiratory passages causing a runny nose, sneezing, a sore throat or a cough.

1. What causes a cold?

 
 
 
 

2. What is the typical duration of the flu?

 
 
 
 

3. Cold symptoms can last from two days to 14 days, but most of your customers will recover within a week.

 
 

4. A customer has the early signs of the flu and wants to catch it before it gets any worse. What is the best recommendation?

 
 
 
 

5. A customer has a sore throat, runny nose, a congested cough and a headache, what is it likely that he has?