(November 27, 2013 at 10:22 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(November 27, 2013 at 10:12 am)pocaracas Wrote: Flu... It's like having a cold and a headache at the same time, right?Not just that, it can be much worse. Influenza pandemics were one of the biggest killers, responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in recorded history, until the widespread distribution of vaccines. Common symptoms are fever, headaches, sweating, dehydration, muscular aches/pains, physical weakness, lung/bronchial/trachial/sinus irritation & inflamation and renal strain. Common causes of death were fever, lung conditions and renal failure.
Common use means that many people refer to bad colds as 'the flu' but that tends to be people who've never had actual influenza. Trust me, they're very different. Fortunately, thanks to modern vaccines, far fewer people will get to find out.
Can't say I've ever had all those symptoms at once...
But I once had all these: fever, headaches, muscular aches/pains, physical weakness and snot... "cured" with ibuprofen.
Every other Winter, it's just snot and cough... to exhaustion.
