(the cottage was unoccupied for many weeks). so the question is... how does the chest infection develop, given that it is a myth that colds are interlinked with damp and lack of heat.
It happened to me this week.
I had pneumonia last year (unrelated, and now fully recovered.)
staying at that cottage... i was very sick with a flu-related illness, with high fever the first night home,and a deep and chesty cough that is still with me a week later. people joke with me that i sound as if i am a heavy smoker of 30 years! (I don't smoke!) I'm still booming away. Should I go to the doctor?
2007-02-17 01:24:31 · 5 answers · asked by Balaboo 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
I doubt if it was directly related to the cottage. The fact that you had a fever tends to suggest it was not an allergic response to something in the cottage but a true infection.
90+% of all chesty episodes are caused by viruses rather than bacteria, and being a bit cold and damp doesn't of course give you an infection. You may even have been incubating the virus before you stayed in the cottage.
2007-02-17 02:21:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is each and every likelyhood which you had already decreased in length the pathogen in the previous you went to the cottage. there is an incubation era for all of those "sicky germs" in the previous we start to confirm the outcomes. a number of those pathogens can take 7 to ten days or extra to incubate on your physique. you have actual picked it up from any infant or grocery clerk in the previous you went to the cottage. Then the chilly and damp weakened your gadget barely adequate to enable it obtain you.
2016-10-02 07:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is every likelyhood that you had already contracted the pathogen before you went to the cottage. There is an incubation period for all of those "sicky germs" before we start to see the effects. Some of these pathogens can take 7 to 10 days or more to incubate in your body.
You could have easily picked it up from any child or grocery clerk before you went to the cottage. Then the cold and damp weakened your system just enough to let it get hold of you.
2007-02-17 01:39:39 · answer #3 · answered by O Wise One 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just bad luck, I guess and maybe a weak chest or immune system
2007-02-17 01:32:46 · answer #4 · answered by Scotty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mold perhaps? mold can cause " farmer's lung"
2007-02-17 01:40:29 · answer #5 · answered by dali333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋