Your child's common cold could be flu: Here's how to win the health battle

Flu or influenza is a respiratory infection caused by the influenza virus, which is found in nose and throat

Remember the last time your child was sent back from school due to a runny nose and cold? Did it occur to you that this could be ‘flu’ or did you simply think it was a ‘common cold’!

Common flu symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body ache, headache, fatigue and, vomiting and diarrhoea, especially in kids. 

As a parent, be cautious of these symptoms in your kid —  drinking less fluids, fast or harder breathing, interacting less with others, and irritability.

Fighting the flu isn’t easy and it is all the more difficult to identify when