Why is it so hard for students to dodge?

Second Week of the Period. Finally, you understand how to use the washing machine, your roommates start to feel like friends, and the hurricane of the Freshers Week is behind you.

However, as things settle, your throat begins to draw, your nose runs, and suddenly the lessons are about learning and trying not to cough more loud than you.

You were warned that this would happen, but you didn’t expect him to hit it very fast.

Actually, what’s going on here? Why does everyone seem to take fresh flu in the first few weeks of the period? And why does so much feel worse than the average cold?

Prof. Dr. Birmingham University Viral Immunology Associate Professor Zania Stamataki, “Freshers’ flu is a variety of cold viruses that come to us at the same time and hit us at the same time.” Says.

Not real flu, and rarely serious. However, when thousands of students come to the campus, they bring a breathing virus cocktail.

Add packaged class theaters, dirty common kitchens and parties late at night and the result is a wave of illness that spreads rapidly.

Sheena Cruickshank, an immunologist and professor in the field of biomedical sciences in Manchester, describes this as the “mixing pot” of infections.

“You bring people together from all over the world, put them in nearby neighborhoods, and exposure to viruses that they have never met before,” he says.

Respiratory viruses are constantly developing and even small differences between variants may mean that the body’s immune system does not recognize them and forces them to start from scratch.

The immune system is the body’s natural defense against infections. It consists of a cell, tissue and organ network that works together to detect harmful invaders such as viruses and bacteria and help the body fight them.

However, during Freshers’ week, your immune system works inadequate and excessively.

Because, as Prof Cruickshank explains, “Your diet, activity level, stress level and sleep are the factors affecting immune functions.”

This is not the first focus point for students in the first weeks of the university.

Stress among them plays a particularly destructive role. The pressure on settlement, making friends, managing new responsibilities and keeping up with academic demands can be rapidly overwhelming.

This triggers cortisol release, a stress hormone that suppresses immune reactions.

“When you are super stressful, you have a lot of dead, you work, you work, you work, you finish all the deadline – and then you get sick,” he says.

Stress may also affect the amount of sleep you receive, which also affects the immune system.

However, for many students, during the Freshers week, the pressure of socialization and making friends is overweight than the need to rest.

Imogen Farmer, a second -year student at the University of Leeds, says, “I didn’t want to miss it.”

Freshers’ week he says he comes together with friends every evening.

“After the first week, I have suffered like sore throat, nose, these typical symptoms and linger for a while.”

Imogen says it is worth it because “especially during the Freshers week, most of the student culture revolves around the nights”.

“You meet a lot of people and connect with your friends. So I said yes to everything.”

However, it is not just a lack of sleep that makes life difficult for your immune system.

Subsequently Drinking too much alcohol – many students will do to overcome the nerves – your body produces less white blood cells that help fight infections.

Dr Stamataki, “If you are consuming alcohol, you sleep better. But there is higher stress and worse,” says Dr Stamataki.

A bad diet can also weaken the immune system and healthy food is not easy for many students – especially jumping food is a regular event.

You can hang out with a lot of viruses around, between two people sneezing, each with a different conference. And you will be exposed to both.

Viruses can then be transferred very easily before noticing the symptoms (during the incubation period).

“Sometimes you think you’re running away from it. And you didn’t,” Dr Stamataki warns.

“So you will feel great. You will go and play the rugbi, you will hug your friends, and you will have a good time, but you will also convey it at the same time.”

He says that the immune response in young people is “quite strong”, but is limited to the fact that they have not yet been subjected to many viruses.

Although everything you encounter for the first time will make you sick, the next time you meet the same virus, the symptoms will not be so bad.

You can also get two infections at the same time. This can help or prevent your body.

Either you will start to feel really terrible – because your immune system is struggling to deal with – or your body’s defenses will start working too much to deal with the invaders.

When this happens, the immune system says “already super pumped,” Prof Cruickshank says, because body is busy making chemical messengers called cytokines that help kill viruses.

If you are unlucky enough to get a second infection shortly after getting rid of the first, this is because you are usually ruined. Then there may be situations like bronchitis.

Prof Cruickshank, “If your symptoms continue for a long time, or if you’ve felt that you’ve become better and then you’re getting sick again, it is worth receiving some medical help to check it, Prof Cruickshank says.

“If you see points behind your throat, this is a sign that there is definitely a Strep Strait and you may need some antibiotics.”

Viruses such as colds and flu do not respond to antibiotics – these drugs are used only to treat some types of bacterial infection.

Although most viruses are light, some can be much more dangerous and meningitis It is a serious infection to pay attention.

It may seem like Freshers’ flu, but may cause seizures, brain damage and sepsis if left untreated.

A student from Wolverhampton, A week after he started college, he was shot and a part of his lower legs and fingers were cut.

Vaccines that help protect against various types of meningitis are given to children, but even if you have jabs, it is still important to be aware of the symptoms.

So what should you pay attention to?

• High temperature or fire
• to be ill
• Headache
• When a glass rolled on it, a rash that does not fade (but a rash does not always develop)
• A hard neck
• Dislike of bright lights
• drowsiness or unresponsiveness
• Seizures (harmony)

Meningitis spreads similarly to the common cold through close contact with someone with infection.

If you know these symptoms, call 999 or go to A & E immediately.

For many students, it is difficult to ignore the pressure of continuing even if it is sick.

“You are very pushing yourself because you are pushing yourself,” a 19 -year -old student Emily Valentine, a 19 -year -old student at the University of Leeds, said Emily Valentine.

“I tend to rest, but I know that many of my friends are trying to go to classes especially in the first week.”

During the PANDEM, the transition to the records of the lessons made it easier for the students to catch up.

However, experts say you need to give yourself time to heal.

“It may take some time to overcome a great attack from a virus,” Prof Cruickshank says.