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  2. How the Common Cold Affects Your Stomach The common cold most often affects the upper respiratory tract —nose and throat—and can also involve a mild fever, headache and general weakness.

  3. Can cold weather make you sick? Your grandma wasn't entirely ...

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    Grandma’s warnings about catching a cold walking barefoot on a chilly floor or going outside with wet hair have some truth.. Colder temperatures, especially in winter months, won’t cause a ...

  4. The Truth Behind the 'Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever' Saying

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  5. Sickness behavior - Wikipedia

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    Anorexia limits food ingestion and therefore reduces the availability of iron in the gut (and from gut absorption). Iron may aid bacterial reproduction, so its reduction is useful during sickness. [15] Plasma concentrations of iron are lowered for this anti-bacterial reason in fever. [16]

  6. Chills - Wikipedia

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    It occurs during fever due to the release of cytokines and prostaglandins as part of the inflammatory response, which increases the set point for body temperature in the hypothalamus. The increased set point causes the body temperature to rise ( pyrexia ), but also makes the patient feel cold or chills until the new set point is reached.

  7. Intermittent fever - Wikipedia

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    c) Remittent fever d) Intermittent fever e) Undulant fever f) Relapsing fever. Intermittent fever is a type or pattern of fever in which there is an interval where temperature is elevated for several hours followed by an interval when temperature drops back to normal. [1] This type of fever usually occurs during the course of an infectious ...

  8. Feed a cold, starve a fever - Wikipedia

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    The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease. In 1574, John Withals published "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer" in a dictionary. The adage states that eating will help cure a cold; not eating will help cure a fever.

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