When I cough( from clearing my throat) or sneeze (from a boogie, lol) close to my boyfriend he always says like 5 minutes later now he will have a cough or sneeze because of my germs. When he says this I am not sick most of the time. However, he says this every time. He says everyday germs get people sick and I say sick germs make you sick. Please help the dispute!
2007-02-15 01:51:40 · 4 answers · asked by Luck Y 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
No...you have to have illness to pass illness. If your cough is cause by another cause...you cannot spread disease. Maybe he is a mild germaphobe.
2007-02-15 01:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Germs in the air are not avoidable. Even if you are exposed to germs, that doesn't necessarily mean you will get sick. It depends on how strong your immune system is in fighting these germs.
2007-02-15 09:56:02 · answer #2 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are carriers - they carry the disease in question without being affected by it. This is especially true of STD's , unfortunately. Men can be infected with yeast and never know it. Women may have gonorrhea and not know it, and either sex can spread chlamydia without being aware of being infected. Germs are tricky.
2007-02-15 09:56:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not sick and are merely coughing/sneezing to clear congestion of some sort, you are not contagious.
2007-02-15 09:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋