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Post by DanTheMan on Dec 5, 2005 22:37:14 GMT -5
What is the difference between the Flu and a Cold? Is there such a thing as stomach flu or is it just food poisoning? Any doctors out there?
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Post by Shazammm on Dec 6, 2005 12:33:32 GMT -5
i'm no doctor, but i do wear a labcoat.  Hope this helps: Gastroenteritis, or inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, is an illness of fever, diarrhoea and/or vomiting caused by an infectious virus, bacterium or parasite. It usually is of acute onset, normally lasting less than 10 days and self-limiting. Sometimes it is referred to simply as 'gastro'. It is often referred to as the stomach flu even though it is not related to influenza.If the inflammation is limited to the stomach, the term gastritis is used, and if the small bowel alone is affected it is enteritis. |
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Dec 7, 2005 16:47:41 GMT -5
"Cold" is what you get on weekdays. Then over the weekend you have "flu", which magically transmutes back to "cold" Sunday at bedtime.  |
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Post by dgan on Dec 8, 2005 5:38:50 GMT -5
Flu is what you have if you miss work...Cold is what you have if you show up to work feeling like crap...
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Post by twyrch on Dec 11, 2005 12:43:59 GMT -5
Flu is what you have if you miss work...Cold is what you have if you show up to work feeling like crap... I go to work, sick or not, unless I'm running a fever or they send me home. I hate having to dig out after I get back to work from a day off...  |
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Post by cowgirl on Feb 27, 2006 20:14:06 GMT -5
A flu is much worse than a cold... at least that's what it seems like to me.
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