Contents:
- Medical Video: Men vs. Women: Who Really Gets Sicker?
- Symptoms of colds experienced by men are worse than women
- The hormone testosterone makes men vulnerable and often experiences flu
- What can you do to prevent the flu from getting worse?
Medical Video: Men vs. Women: Who Really Gets Sicker?
How often do you get flu? If you are feeling flu, you will feel that all of your body is not feeling good or there are symptoms of dizziness. You might consider all of these symptoms to be experienced by almost everyone who has the flu. but it turns out that some studies suggest that men experience more severe symptoms when exposed to flu than women. Then why did this happen? What are the reasons for men experiencing worse symptoms?
Symptoms of colds experienced by men are worse than women
When a woman is attacked by colds, most of them continue to carry out their daily activities. Unlike men who if they have symptoms of flu, most will decide to rest at home and do nothing.
Actually, the symptoms that appear are no different between women and men. Symptom severity depends on the function of each individual body, because the immune levels vary. It has nothing to do with gender.
Until now researchers have not fully understood why men feel more suffering if they experience flu illness than women. But this difference is caused by different body functions and the characteristics of the two groups.
The hormone testosterone makes men vulnerable and often experiences flu
One of the biggest biological differences and seen between the two is that each has a dominant hormone. Women have the hormone estrogen, while men survive with the hormone testosterone.
The hormone estrogen responds to the immune system better than the hormone testosterone. Because, the presence of the hormone estrogen will actually increase a woman's immunity. Whereas the reverse hormone testosterone, actually decreases the immune system.
Even a study from McGill University Health Center states that women have an immune system that is stronger than men. In this study, the researchers concluded that women benefit from the estrogen hormone they have. Because the hormone estrogen can increase the response of the immune system so that the body is able to ward off and respond better if there are germs entering the body.
What can you do to prevent the flu from getting worse?
Although the study says that there is a difference between a woman's immune system and that of a man's, but indeed the body's resistance depends on the condition of each individual. Here are things you can do to make flu disappear from you:
- Drink lots of water. The better the body is hydrated, the faster the flu will leave your body.
- Eating foods that are rich and warm, such as chicken soup. In a study published in the journal Chest, it was shown that eating chicken soup can overcome symptoms of respiratory infections.
- Exercise regularly. Don't make your flu a reason to avoid exercise. Regular exercise can improve your immune system.
- Eating foods that contain high vitamin C. Vitamin C can make your body more immune to bacterial diseases, including flu.
