10 Fakta Unik Tentang Flu

1. Colds takes about 48 hours to infect and make you sick.
If a runny nose, itchy throat, think back 48 hours back. Chances are cold viruses enter your body. Experts say the flu virus takes about two days to implant into the lining cells and produces symptoms. Sometimes difficult to distinguish colds and flu. Ron Eccles, BSc, PhD, DSC, Director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University in England, said cold viruses usually do not cause fever in adults. While fever and cough are the main signs of influenza.

2. The best weapon against colds is to sports.
Not the drugs or vitamin supplements, but sports. Appalachian State University researchers have studied how the immune system and viruses are influenced by exercise. Researchers say if you want to really tackle the flu this winter, the best way is 30 minutes walk fast 5 times per week. "Exercise is good light since moving blood throughout the body and also move the white blood cells to look for infection," Dr. Eccles.

3. Lack of sleep one of the causes
How much did you sleep last night? "If less than seven hours, you are three times more likely to colds," said researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Use of sleep with efficiently. Study participants who spent less than 92 percent of their sleep time at least five times more likely to get colds.

4. Orange juice does not ward off colds
More than 30 studies conducted by researchers at the Australian National University and the University of Helsinki, says that for most people, vitamin C did not prevent or cure the symptoms of flu.

5. Echinacea flowers can help fight cold viruses
Plants with purple flowers can help boost the immune system. So they can fight the flu and cold viruses. Researchers from the University of Connecticut studied more than 1,600 people using this flower. They reported that Echinacea can reduce the chances of developing a cold by 50 percent and reduce the duration of a cold sore about 1.4 days.

6. Cold viruses can make fat
Researchers at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego found that children have been infected by 36 adenovirus, common cold viruses that cause cold symptoms are sometimes also affected by digestive problems. Their weight 50 pounds heavier than the children who are not infected with this virus. But the virus is not the main cause of weight problems.

7. Hot drinks may help relieve symptoms of cold viruses
According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Rhinology, researchers in Britain say sipping hot drinks can provide immediate and sustained relief from the worst symptoms of the flu, such as coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat and fatigue.

8. Ingredients in breast milk can cure colds
It turned out that an ingredient in breast milk that could treat a cold. Material that is monolaurin, a derivative of lauric acid. "These fatty acids are found naturally in breast milk," said Tom Bayne, DC, practitioner with ChicagoHealers.com. Monolaurin also known to reduce the symptoms of flu and exhaustion.

9. The average person gets 200 colds in her life.
With an estimated age of 75 years, you may suffer through a cold 200. With average annual attacked twice. While children usually get between four and eight times colds per year.

10. Colds are not contagious
Most people think because the handshake with a sick person would make them got the flu and colds. Recent research by the Common Cold Centre Cardiff University found that when healthy people put in a room with people with flu and colds, the pain is difficult to spread infection from one person to another. In fact, a cold virus must have the ideal conditions to infect the body. "Colds are highly contagious, and colds are most contagious from prolonged and close contacts," says Dr Eccles.