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Do You Have a Cold Or Allergies? Here’s How to Tell, According to Immunologists
If you suddenly come down with cold-like symptoms, it's possible you may have caught a virus. But when allergy season seems to get worse and worse every year, how can you tell if you're dealing with a common cold or seasonal allergies? To help you differentiate between a cold and allergies, we asked immunologists to weigh in on a few key differences. Read on to get their advice, and take our quiz at the end to help determine whether you might have a cold or allergies yourself.
Is It Rude to Lie About Being Sick? And 21 Other Illness Etiquette Questions
And since there's no Miss Manners column designed to help you parse this updated landscape of acceptable behavior, we attempted to spell out what's considered polite or rude when it comes to sick season in 2024.
To come up with these points of decorum, we asked coworkers to weigh in on real-life scenarios. We also ran the results of our mini-survey by POPSUGAR advisory board member Andrea C. Love, PhD, and immunologist and microbiologist, the founder of ImmunoLogic, who helped flag anything that clashed with the actual best practices of hygiene and safety.