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  2. Is your heater making you sick? How to avoid cold-like ...

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    “When you turn on the heat for the first time in the season, these particles get blown into the air, which can lead to sinus congestion, sneezing, coughing, sore throat or other allergic ...

  3. Doctors Explain the Best Ways to Stop a Nasty Cold Before It ...

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    To feel healthy during cold and flu season, prevent a cold from taking over your body in the first place. Here, doctors explain the best ways to avoid getting sick.

  4. How to Prevent Allergies During Sneezing Season - AOL

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    Attention, allergy sufferers! Our guide will help you breathe easier this spring.

  5. Prevention of influenza - Wikipedia

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    Reasonably effective ways to reduce the transmission of influenza include good personal health and hygiene habits such as: not touching your eyes, nose or mouth; [6] frequent hand washing (with soap and water, or with alcohol-based hand rubs); [6] eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables; [16] covering coughs and sneezes; avoiding close contact with sick people; and staying home yourself if ...

  6. Sneeze - Wikipedia

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    When sneezing, humans eyes automatically close due to the involuntary reflex during sneeze. [3] Shadowgraph visualization of the airflow during a sneeze, comparing an unmasked sneeze with several different method of covering one's mouth and nose: sneezing into a fist, a cupped hand, a tissue, a "coughcatcher" device, a surgical mask, and an N95 ...

  7. Zinc and the common cold - Wikipedia

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    The hypothesized mechanism of action by which zinc reduces the severity and/or duration of cold symptoms is the suppression of nasal inflammation and the direct inhibition of rhinoviral receptor binding and rhinoviral replication in the nasal mucosa. [1] Zinc has been known for many years to have an effect on cold viruses in the laboratory. [8]

  8. If You Notice This One Cold-Related Symptom In the Month of ...

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    Coughing, sneezing and wheezing—these common cold symptoms are often considered a default way of life each January. Yes, respiratory viruses certainly peak when much of the U.S. is crammed ...

  9. Nose-blowing - Wikipedia

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    The volunteers were induced to sneeze, cough, and blow their noses. It was found that the typical pressure of nose-blowing was 1.3 pounds per square inch, ten times greater than that generated by sneezing or coughing. CT scans showed that nose blowing sent much of the dye into the paranasal sinuses rather than expelling it out of the nose.