Colds may not be serious diseases, but they do have a high cost in days lost from work and school, and in the sheer miseries they produce. Colds have been with us throughout recorded history. In ancient times nasal discharge from a cold was believed to be waste products of the brain. Treatments and preventives were as inaccurate. Some advice today is hardly more scientific: eat garlic buds or onions. Drink hot lemonade, inhale a little tear gas.
Getting a cold is very common these days. But after the recent hype of swine flu, people get really worried as their symptoms are very similar.
Common cold is very prevalent especially whenever season changes or even due to low resistance power people may catch it easily in a cold weather.