There are thousands of different strains of the cold virus. Does catching one make you immune from the others, while it lasts?
2007-11-19 01:20:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Technically at least there is nothing to stop you getting more that one viral illness at a time. However, when we get any virus our immune system switches up a gear and begins to throw out all the antibodies it knows how to make, so the response to the second virus would be even more rapid.
2007-11-19 09:52:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is possible to pick up a new virus while still ill with the first one, and it might even make you feel more miserable than before. Unfortunately, immunity to one cold germ doesn't confer immunity to others- which is why there is no cold vaccine yet.
If someone with a cold comes into your house, the best thing to do is confine the sick person and go nuts with the hygiene and cleanliness.
2007-11-19 03:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we talk about "catching a cold" we're talking about becoming infected with a cold virus. Technically, it is possible to become infected with two different strains of the cold virus at once but it is very doubtful that that will make your symptoms worse.
I hope this helps!
2007-11-19 01:34:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mandragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are weak after one cold and can catch one after the other, I think the others lay in wait for you to get better from the first one as I have just had two over the last two weeks and am not better yet so am probably on my third. A cold only lasts for four days or so, so people who say "I have had this cold for three weeks" have had two or three, not one long one!
2007-11-19 01:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a really good question actually - I dont know! I think you'd probably just end up with a prolonged cold with a few different strains thrown in.
I have heard that once you've had one type of cold virus you can never catch that same one again
2007-11-19 01:25:14 · answer #5 · answered by monkeynuts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a cold...and just got over a sickness bug from last night. Feel awful...my immune system is so rubbish at the moment!
2007-11-19 01:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is possible, due to there being so many types of virus that is associated with a cold. As being twice as bad, that I doubt it
2007-11-19 11:42:08 · answer #7 · answered by Denis K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh yeah... had a couple before... it was the WORST.
(I was going up the walls because of it... took pain relievers when the cold medicines didn't work... and i feel like getting a plumber's snake to unclog my nose....)
2007-11-19 01:32:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
id say you can if you are unlucky enough. i dont think you would feel twice as bad but it would last twice as long.
2007-11-19 01:31:48 · answer #9 · answered by kay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋