A cold typically develops two to three days after exposure. It might take as long as one week for symptoms to appear. Children might be sick longer and get colds more often than adults.
Over-the-counter medicines to treat cold symptoms should not be given to children under the age of 2, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Chung added that while over-the-counter ...
An adult suffers between two and four colds a year; children, six to eight. These mild upper respiratory tract infections (they mainly affect the nose and throat), whose predominant symptoms are mucus ...