The states with the most populations, California and Texas, boasted the most job opportunities for general contractors in 2011. The latter had 13 percent of the jobs at a mean $39.09 per hour, or $81,310 per year, followed by the former, with 11 percent of the jobs at a mean $51.81 per hour, or $107,760 per year.
Some experts believe teething can cause a slight runny nose and a minimal cough, but others say these symptoms are more likely due to the common cold. All agree that serious coughing and congestion signal a bona fide illnessâand are not the result of teething.
In hospital he was given oral steroids in the form of prednisone, to reduce the inflammation in his airways. He then developed nasal polyps and so started taking prednisone more regularly. Polyps are swellings in the nasal cavity which can cause a runny nose and, in Tonyâs case, loss of sense of smell. âDoctors told me the steroids could help to shrink the polyps,â he recalls.