My partner had a cold which he gave to me. He got better and then a few days later when I was getting better he suddenly gets sick again. He told me that I have passed the cold back on to him. However, I dont think that you can catch the same cold twice. Is that right??
2007-03-23 05:41:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Seems to be fairly mixed answers can anyone go in to real detail?
2007-03-23 05:53:26 · update #1
No you can't, there are over 200 different cold virus's in the world, once you have caught one your immune system reacts to it and protects you from catching it again, so you will never suffer from the same virus twice. Thats why Children suffer from colds more than adults because over the years we adults have suffered more colds and have become immune to them. Hope this helps with any misconceptions you have.
2007-03-23 05:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by Chunky 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking about the common cold, then the answer is NO, you cannot catch the same cold twice. There are about a million strains of the common cold and your body develops antibodies for every cold virus that you get.
2016-03-29 01:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, once you have a virus once your body has special cells that remember the virus and kill it. So if you appear to get sick again it a new virus which can actually appear quite the same as the last one you contracted. There are hundreds of cold viruses.
Now here is the thing SOME viruses can change form and alter in shape so the body no longer recognizes them.
Examples are HIV, herpes, (chicken pox which is a form of herpes) and some strands of the flu.
So I guess it goes either way it's all in how you look at it.
2007-03-23 07:09:17 · answer #3 · answered by jaimie0322 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes u r right. it may not be the same virus but something else. there are various kinds of virus causing cold.every time when we acquire it our body develops antibodies against it, our memory cells remembers the specific antibody and when the same pathogen enters, our body is capable of killing it.
The second time u might have got secondary infection. when u r infected by a germ the immunity would decrease a little. so it would be very easy for the next patogen to enter.
This is my suggestion
2007-03-24 21:51:51 · answer #4 · answered by jasmine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if you had a repeat perscription ha ha On a more serious note i have just come out of hospital,they are overun with patients because the nurses was telling me that this cold come flu has been like a vicious circle so keep wrapped up and take care
2007-03-23 05:49:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Del piero and stingme seem to have the best answers. As far as i am concerned and from what i have learned over the years you can never catch the same cold twice.
2007-03-24 02:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by kelly m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may not be the same cold, and it may never have fully gone away. In theory, your body will make antibodies, but it takes some time to do that, more than a few days.
2007-03-23 05:48:46 · answer #7 · answered by Waiting and Wishing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can. Just like you can catch the same sexually transmitted disease twice.
2007-03-23 05:45:09 · answer #8 · answered by bench 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No.
2007-03-23 05:43:31 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you can't catch the very same cold twice.
The germ is different in the next cold.
2007-03-23 05:52:28 · answer #10 · answered by Old School 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋