Difference between common cold and the flu: General Health

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

How can you tell if you have a common cold or the flu?
The biggest difference between a common cold and the flu or the swine flu is muscle body aches and your stomach being upset. If you have a common cold you will not have body aches and will not feel nauseous. With the flu and swine flu you will have those two symptoms.

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

Aren't fevers higher in the flu rather than the cold too?

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

Actually, from what I heard on The Doctors show today, they said the common cold usually does not have a fever associated with it at all. So yeah, the flu does have a fever and the cold does not. The flu includes swine flu too.

Laughing Gravy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

The way we always say to tell the difference is this:

If you're lying in bed or on the couch, feeling sorry for yourself and you see a fifty pound note drop to the ground just outside your window, if you have a cold, you'll go and get it. If you have the flu, you just think 'screw it, it can stay there'.

Having had a couple of bouts of flu, I can confirm this theory...

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

Ha, this sounds like a good theory!

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