Immune System

Tini

When getting over the common cold is your immune system better as in its harder for you to get sick right after you shake off a cold?

benz0rs

I think it builds immunity to that cold, but there's always a new virus of the cold that emerges.

Tini

I had always thought that once you built up an immunity to that certain common cold you could never get it again. I'm probably wrong but I remember hearing there were somewhere around 380 or so varieties known of the common cold.

Deswa

Tini wrote:

I had always thought that once you built up an immunity to that certain common cold you could never get it again. I'm probably wrong but I remember hearing there were somewhere around 380 or so varieties known of the common cold.

You won't get sick from that strain of the virus again, but you will still get sick from another version of the cold.

Tini

Deswa wrote:

Tini wrote:

I had always thought that once you built up an immunity to that certain common cold you could never get it again. I'm probably wrong but I remember hearing there were somewhere around 380 or so varieties known of the common cold.

You won't get sick from that strain of the virus again, but you will still get sick from another version of the cold.

That's what I thought.

cooljammer00

but after you get sick, you might still want to be careful so you dont catch a different virus. your energy would be sapped, making you weaker and more susceptible to sickness, right?

Neaden

Yeah, you should still be carefull after you're sick, try to get more sleep drink fluids etc.

gneGne

oranges and apples ftw

monkeyfeet63

Depends. Do you have HIV/AIDS?

Tini

WTF?!

Well. The reason behind this thread was me getting over a sickness and the chance of getting my girls sickness through making out although i may have given her what she has sooo, We'll just see haha.

Wylder

Tini wrote:

Deswa wrote:

Tini wrote:

I had always thought that once you built up an immunity to that certain common cold you could never get it again. I'm probably wrong but I remember hearing there were somewhere around 380 or so varieties known of the common cold.

You won't get sick from that strain of the virus again, but you will still get sick from another version of the cold.

That's what I thought.

You cant use words like "never" in a statement like that. Its wrong.

Having gotten one virus/infection, you are more likely to be able to fight off the effects of that virus/infection for a period of time. However this resistance is neither perfect nor does it last for your lifetime.

Even the traditional "once only" diseases like chicken pox can be had twice in rare circumstances. Other infections like tetanus, it is impossible to produce an immune response that is able to protect you for more than a handful of years.


However to address the actual issue: Yes, you are pretty safe from becoming reinfected from a person that you have just transmitted your disease to.

ege02

Considering how fast the common cold virus evolves and how many variations of it there are, building an immunity for one kind doesn't mean anything.

Tini

Sorry for using the word never, my mistake.

Thanks for all the feedback as well.

LondonBridge

Tini wrote:

Deswa wrote:

Tini wrote:

I had always thought that once you built up an immunity to that certain common cold you could never get it again. I'm probably wrong but I remember hearing there were somewhere around 380 or so varieties known of the common cold.

You won't get sick from that strain of the virus again, but you will still get sick from another version of the cold.

That's what I thought.

I notice attending a niece's birthday party always gets me sick a few days later. The parties are full of little germ mongers and it becomes a hot zone. sucks. So I try to stay away from kids as much as possible.