Cold and Flu

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10-Minute Consult: Cold and Flu

Ah-choo! You’re bound to hear that sound — along with sniffling, coughing, and nose-blowing — every winter when cold-and-flu season sprinkles its misery on just about everyone. Up to 20% of Americans get the flu every year, and Americans suffer one billion colds. Children get colds and the flu more often than adults. Some kids get as many as 12 colds a year, while adults average 2 to 4.

With your chance of getting a cold or the flu so high, this 10-Minute Consult on Cold and Flu will surely come in handy. This report will show you how to avoid getting colds and the flu, and, if you do get sick, what you can do to feel better. You’ll also learn when to see your doctor and how to treat these usually minor miseries. The report also provides specific information for high-risk groups for whom the flu can be very serious.

Prepared by the editors of Harvard Health Publications in consultation Jeffrey A. Linder, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Physician, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 34 pages. (2007)

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Our 10-Minute Consult series of publications delivers compact, practical information on important health concerns. These publications are smaller in scope than our Special Health Reports, but they are written in the same clear, easy-to-understand language, and they provide the authoritative health advice you expect from Harvard Health Publications.

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