Health Check: how to tell the difference between hay fever and the common cold
- Written by Reena Ghildyal, Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Canberra
Both make you sneeze and give you a runny nose.Shutterstock/michaelheim
You wake up with a runny nose and, come to think of it, you’ve been sneezing more than usual. It feels like the start of a cold but it’s October – the start of hay fever season – so what is the more likely affiliation?
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