It's allergy season, but 2025 is also a year for the common cold. Cold and flus are at an all-time high, making it difficult to discern what your symptoms are trying to tell you. If you're reaching ...

Pollen drifts innocuously through the air. From dusk until dawn, you just can’t seem to stop sneezing. Then one morning you wake up with a sore throat and a cough. Is it that cold your neighbor had ...

The allergies or cold question is relevant for more of the year as climate crisis has made allergy season longer and more intense.Photograph: Carol Yepes/Getty Images Ah, spring. A time of thawing and ...

You're stuffed up, you're sniffling - but is it an allergy or is it a cold? It's not always easy to tell, even for someone like Dr. Kevin Lunde, an otolaryngologist at Baylor Plano hospital in Texas. ...

If your child's "cold" has dragged on for weeks, it may not be a cold at all. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, explains why winter allergies are often mistaken for repeated viral infections. Learn the ...

As temperatures rise, flowers bloom and viruses continue to circulate, it can be challenging to tell whether it’s the last gasps of cold season or if allergy season springs anew. Both have similar ...

Sneezing, congestion, and runny nose—these are all classic symptoms of both a cold and allergies, making it difficult to self-diagnose and treat either at home. But despite their similar symptoms, an ...