ADVANCE/How to Avoid Catching a Cold.(ADVANCE) NEW YORK--Nov. 2, 1998--The best way to avoid catching a cold is to keep away from people during the first three days of their colds, states Jack Gwaltney, M.D. of the University of Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). Sciences Center. Gwlatney says it's a myth that colds are most infectious before symptoms appear. "It's during the first three days, when people exhibit the typical symptoms, that they're contagious contagious /con·ta·gious/ (-jus) capable of being transmitted from one individual to another, as a contagious disease; communicable. con·ta·gious adj. 1. Of or relating to contagion. ," he explains in the current (November) issue of New Choices, Living Even Better After 50. "That's the time they're secreting the most viruses. So try to avoid direct contact with anyone who has a cold during that period. If that's not possible, keep your hands away from your eyes or your nose, don't let people sneeze sneeze, involuntary violent expiration of air through the nose and mouth. It results from stimulation of the nervous system in the nose, causing sudden contraction of the muscles of expiration. or cough cough, sudden, forceful expiration of air from the lungs caused by an involuntary contraction of the muscles controlling the process of breathing. The cough is a response to some irritating condition such as inflammation or the presence of mucus (sputum) in the in your face, and wash your hands after you've touched any objects they have handled. But don't worry about some stranger across the room who keeps sneezing To verbally tell somebody about a new and interesting Web site. See viral marketing. . You have to be within a yard or so of someone with a cold to catch it that way," says Gwaltney. "The viruses can't float that far through the air." (End of advance for release 7:30 a.m. Nov. 2) |
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