7 dangerous diseases that can easily be confused with a cold

Autumn and winter — the cold seasons. Once is enough to go outside not dressed for the weather and then feel the first symptoms of malaise, runny nose, aching body, stuffy nose and sneezing. Most likely, after a few days you will again feel healthy, but sometimes it happens that the cold is flowing in a much more dangerous disease, and people do not even guess.

Below we describe 7 such basic diseases and their symptoms.

Colds quite often accompanied by unpleasant "scratchy" feeling in the throat. However, if the pain becomes unbearable, I advise you not to tolerate, and as soon as possible to go to the doctor it's highly likely that you have developed a strep sore throat and need treatment with antibiotics.

Mucus and sputum that during a cold accumulate in the throat and nose can easily get into the ear and cause inflammation and secondary infection. And it happens more often than we would like, therefore, the manifestation of the first painful sensations in the ear, consult a specialist. Designate the least bit, or worse, to warm the ear with a lamp not in any case!

The symptoms of flu and colds, especially in the early stages, remarkably similar to each other. But there is one symptom peculiar to influenza. We are talking about the aches and pains throughout the body, including internal organs such as the stomach. If along with a runny nose and sore throat you feel something, call your doctor if you need treatment for the flu, because, as we know, this disease, unlike the flu, there are a lot of complications.

That's already a bottle of cough syrup coming to an end, and you still get sick... you Know that's not normal! If you have a cough that won't go away for about two weeks, go immediately to the hospital — it can indicate the presence of bronchitis or even pneumonia.

Since the common cold is a disease of the upper respiratory tract minor breathing difficulties the characters. But if you are experiencing shortness of breath, hoarseness and shortness of breath, it's time to see a specialist — it seems that you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or as it is also called COPD. "Hook up" with COPD are particularly at risk those patients who had already suffered from pneumonia, and the elderly. They should be especially careful to monitor their health and to apply different methods for prevention of colds and flu in cold seasons.

Common cold can last a maximum of five to seven days, so if a week has already passed and you still not feeling well, be sure that you are dealing with the disease is serious. For example, a cold could easily turn into sinusitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of one or more of the paranasal sinuses that is accompanied by headaches, fever, profuse nasal discharge and heaviness in okolonosovyh or frontal areas.

It seems that everything should be obvious, however, judging by the experience of doctors, patients often accept violations of a chair for one of the symptoms of colds and don't treat them too seriously. However, nausea, bloody diarrhea, and other disorders are most likely caused by food poisoning or even a stomach virus. In any case, you need to go to the doctor and not to self-medicate.