People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows | Medical research
People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows | Medical research
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People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows
I had a cold last month, but I'm still getting rid of a mild cough. This seems pretty timely for me.
The findings suggest there may be long-lasting health impacts after non-Covid acute respiratory infections such as colds, influenza, or pneumonia, that have been going unrecognised.
However, the researchers do not yet have evidence suggesting that the symptoms have the same severity or duration as long Covid.
I'm an otherwise pretty healthy person who gets knocked out by anything respiratory. My entire life, ever since I was a kid, if I get a cold, the flu, anything, it's going to be weeks to months of feeling terrible. I always hated how casual everyone around me was with their illness, like oh, it's just a cold, yeah, well that cold is going to have me unable to sleep for the next 2 weeks and feeling generally awful for at least the next 2 after that, so please wash your hands after you sneeze on them. Twice now I've had the flu and taken over 4 months to recover and stop feeling like my lungs were filling with fluid every time I did any type of exercise.
Ugh. That's rough.
Me too. I found out in my thirties that I have (fortunately relatively mild) cystic fibrosis and that was the reason for it.
Ugh, that sucks. I suspect I have some underlying condition because whenever I actually stop being lazy and do cardio like running I'll cough for days afterwards. I love running and used to run almost daily but got sick of constantly having a runner's cough. But all my medical checkups have been great and I feel like if I complain about the fact that when I get sick it takes forever to recover and cough when I exercise it's going to be too vague of a complaint for them to do anything about or care.
My daughter is in a similar situation. It's very frustrating to take her to some kids event and have kids around who are coughing and sniffling. I get it, it's minor and they want to enjoy this event. But if my daughter gets sick, she'll be nigh incapacitated for the next week or two by this "minor illness". That "light cough" will have her coughing so hard that she vomits. She's basically relegated to laying around and reading or watching TV. It makes school tough and is a fairly large part of why we homeschool.