multiple colds

romperstomper · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:11

My girlfriends boy had a sore throat a couple of weeks ago the next day I have the same followed by a cold which he never got .

Anyway I got rid of the cold about 5 days ago went over to gf house last night and her boy had a cold and now I have the start of a cold again :mad:

Is it possible to catch a cold from someone then give it back to them then catch it back yourself ,I suspect no but anyone know !

TheVoice · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:13

Vitamin C boosters are your friend, on these occasions. Specifically the effervescent tablets that you dissolve in a glass of water.

Van Hellseek · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:13

romperstomper said:
Is it possible to catch a cold from someone then give it back to them then catch it back yourself

No, of course it's not - your body will build up antibodies against it, otherwise you would never get over it in the first place.

went over to gf house last night and her boy had a cold and now I have the start of a cold again

You can't experience symptoms that fast... You must have caught your current cold from somebody else.

romperstomper · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:20

TheVoice said:
Vitamin C boosters are your friend, on these occasions. Specifically the effervescent tablets that you dissolve in a glass of water.

I took 500 mg of timed release about 7 hours ago but think its to late now !

romperstomper · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:23

seek said:
No, of course it's not - your body will build up antibodies against it, otherwise you would never get over it in the first place.

You can't experience symptoms that fast... You must have caught your current cold from somebody else.

you've just changed that who you been talking too

Have not really been near anyone else ,I reckon my gf must be a a carrer

Van Hellseek · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:25

romperstomper said:
you've just changed that who you been talking too

Yeah, I posted crap then remembered I was a biology student. :/

Dj_Jestar · 25 Mar 2008 at 03:39

There are hundreds of variants of the common cold, hence why we catch "the" cold so many times.

Angilion · 25 Mar 2008 at 05:13

Try Echinacea.

Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't, but it's cheap enough to be worth trying. If you avoid shops selling it to suckers who'll buy it at a 1000% markup because it's "natural", you can get about 2 months of tablets for about £2. It's just dried up bits of a plant that's easy to grow.

James07 · 25 Mar 2008 at 07:42

Pffft i had one and me and the gf passed it around each other for like a month, pretty annoying.

Vegetarian · 25 Mar 2008 at 07:55

I Had the "cold" (man flu) for about 2 months last nov-dec. It kept comming back. Normally I have very good health - not had a cold for 5 years! These new "colds" are super charged ones I tell you!

Angilion · 25 Mar 2008 at 08:29

You can't have had a cold for 2 months unless your immune system is severely compromised, although you could have had a succession of them. The first one makes you feel crap, makes you sleep less and generally weakens your resistance to other ones.

A question for people with more knowledge: How quickly can new versions of cold viruses pop up? Is it possible for the situation James07 describes to be caused by mutation, i.e. by the time it passed from him to his girlfriend, it had altered and he then caught the new version?

JAMAL · 25 Mar 2008 at 08:41

I have had the sore throat/cold, it came back after about 4 days and has been exactly the same for atleast 5 people i know. Still not feeling great now and mine started 2 weeks ago.

Mat · 25 Mar 2008 at 09:02

romperstomper said:
Is it possible to catch a cold from someone then give it back to them then catch it back yourself ,I suspect no but anyone know !

I guess it is technically possible if the virus mutates each time it is passed.