What is the difference between cold vs flu symptoms?

Typically a cold is much milder than the flu. You may have a few physical symptoms which are inconvenient rather than debilitating. Symptoms such as a runny nose, sore eyes, a sore throat, a cough, sneezing.

The early stages of a cold looks very like hay fever.

These symptoms may make you look sick to others, but you are actually coping pretty well. You can still function, still go to work, do what you have to do on a daily basis. More or less.

On the other hand, flu symptoms include fever and some form of body aches. A fever indicates that your body is having to fight quite hard to do what it needs to do. A fever is a good thing and should be left alone. Just keep an eye on it. Seek professional help if it gets out of control

Doping yourself with drugs and vaccines may appear to help your flu symptoms in the short run, but they will not help your overall health in the long run, as they suppress the symptoms, rather than cure them.

Go to bed if you have the flu. It’s serious and needs to be treated seriously. Take time out for your body to heal itself.

The other symptoms which tends to differentiate cold vs flu symptoms is some form of body ache. This can take the form of muscle ache or bone ache. You generally don’t get these with a common cold.

But the most important distinction between colds and flu is that you feel weary, run down, exhausted, call it what you will. You will want to go to bed. And that’s the best place for you, while your body focuses on healing you.

But there is a modality of medicine which can help you without suppressing symptoms. Homeopathy is a natural and holistic way of helping your body cure itself.

There are several common homeopathic medicines which you can take which have the potential of protecting you against the flu and helping you resolve your individual type of flu, without suppressing your symptoms.