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- What Your Mucus Says About Your Health
Yes, mucus – or snot, or phlegm – is gross, but it has vital clues about your health. Learn what it might be telling you and when to see a doctor.
- Teach Your Kids to Avoid Colds
Kids spread germs like it’s their job. But teaching them these simple habits will help them – and your family – stay well and head off colds and flu.
- The Germiest Places in Your Community
Germs are everywhere, but some places and things are germ hot spots. Learn some you might not think about, and how to stay healthy wherever you go.
- What We Learned About COVID-19 and Cold and Flu Season
No two cold and flu seasons are the same. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself now.
- Treating the Cold or Flu When You Have COVID-19
Have you caught COVID-19 and a cold or flu at the same time? Here’s how to handle it.
- Reasons Why Your Cough May Not Be Improving
Reasons why your cough persists (conditions that cause chronic cough) and what you may be doing to impede healing (lifestyle habits).
- ‘Holy Moldy’: Teachers Use Bread to Show Why Handwashing Matters
Still think hand sanitizers work just as well as soap and water? A recent classroom experiment gone viral might change your mind.
- Beware of Workplace Germs
Germs live and thrive in the workplace. Find out about germ hot spots, when contamination is at its worst, and how to protect yourself.
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- How to avoid germs on planes and cruise ships
- How Do You Catch a Cold or the Flu?
Arm yourself with these helpful facts to stay healthy all year long.
- Which Habits Really Help You Avoid Colds and Flu?
While some precautions can help you stay healthy, others are a waste of time.
- The reason antibiotics are not effective for flu treatment
- The Man Cold: Why Guys React Differently to Colds
Is there any truth to the belief that men handle having a cold differently than women?
- The truth behind mum's cold advice
- The Truth Behind Mom's Cold and Flu Advice
Mom has a lot of advice when it comes to cold and flu. Here's what she's right about.
- Tips to Help You Manage a Weakened Immune System
If your immune system is weak due to illness, chemotherapy, HIV, or for other reasons, use these tips to take care of yourself so you stay as healthy as possible.
- How to Stop a Cold
Before your sniffles morph into a nasty sinus, chest, or ear infection, here's how to fight back.
- 6 Tips for Sound Sleep When You Have a Cold
Too stuffy to sleep? Try these tricks to breathe easier and sleep better when you’re sick.
- Is It a Cold or the Flu?
Do you know the difference between a cold and the flu?
- Water Everywhere: Stay Moist, Feel Better
- Catching Cold? XX Things to Stop Doing Now
- Getting to the Bottom of a Sore Throat
How can you figure out what’s causing your sore throat?
- Myths vs. Facts About Your Immune System
What do you really know when it comes to boosting your immune system and fighting off a cold?
- How to Look Your Best When You Have a Cold
Snuggle up! Getting enough sleep can help your beauty routine when you have a cold.
- Soothe Dry Skin When You Have a Cold
Tips to heal dry, chapped skin, nose, and lips.
- Soothe a Nighttime Cough
Are you up at night coughing because of a cold or flu? Find out how to soothe your nighttime cough.
- Cleaning Hit List: What to Disinfect
During cold and flu season, use this list to help keep key areas in your home clean. It could help you avoid catching a cold or getting the flu.
- Cold and Flu Season: Limit the Spread of Germs
Use these tips to stop the spread of colds or the flu when someone in your house gets sick.
- Stay Healthy: 6 Tips for Avoiding Cold and Flu
Avoid getting sick with tips from people whose jobs put them around a lot of germs
- Get Through Your Day With a Cough or Cold
Survival strategies if you can't stay in bed and rest while you're sick with a cold.
- Should I Go to the Clinic for a Cold or Flu?
You have a terrible cold –- maybe even the flu. Do you know when to see a doctor?
- 8 Tips for Nighttime Cough Relief
Tips for relieving your nighttime cough and getting the sleep you need.
- Cough Medicine: Should You or Shouldn’t You?
Do cough medicines really work? Get the facts on cough medicine effectiveness and side effects.
- Tips for Treating the Cold and Flu
What to stock in your survival kit for fighting the cold and flu this winter.
- Test Your Cough IQ
Why you cough, when you cough, and how you cough -- plus a quiz to test your cold and flu smarts.
- 5 Ways to Stop Colds From Spreading in Your Family
As a cold spreads from one family member to the next, illness causes missed school, missed work, and a lot of aches and pains. Here are five tips to stop colds from spreading in your family.
- Natural Ways to Kick a Cold
There’s no cure for the common cold, but it’s important to make yourself comfortable while you recover. Here are tips to help you get through a cold.
- Don’t Let a Cold Get You Down
There are about 200 cold viruses, and Americans get, on average, three to four colds a year. But you can protect yourself with these tips from cold experts.
- 10 Home Remedies for the Flu
Simple home remedies can be all you need to relieve mild to moderate flu symptoms. Try these 10 natural remedies for flu.
- Swine Flu and Asthma
WebMD discusses possible complications and heightened risk factors posed to asthma sufferers who contract H1N1.
- Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?
H1N1 swine flu vaccine is here -- but is it safe? WebMD gives frank answers to questions about what we know, and don't know, about the pandemic flu vaccine.
- When Healthy Habits Backfire
Sometimes, healthy habits can become a health risk, despite your best intentions. Find out what to do about it.
- Swine Flu 101: College Survival Tips
Tips for college students on how to handle H1N1 flu (swine flu).
- Swine Flu and Chronic Conditions
Are people with chronic conditions more at risk of getting swine flu? WebMD has the answers about who should be extremely careful this flu season.
- Swine Flu and the Elderly
Experts share insights on ways seniors can protect themselves against swine flu.
- Swine Flu and Travel: 6 Tips
Tips to keep in mind about H1N1 swine flu and travel.
- Swine Flu (H1N1) and Face Masks
WebMD discusses face masks to prevent swine flu (H1N1) including whether they're necessary, where to buy them, and which type to buy if you do.