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These symptoms can also be caused by a cold virus other than a rhinovirus. Usually there is no fever; in fact, fever and more severe symptoms may indicate that you have the flu rather than a cold. Cold symptoms typically last for about 3 days. At that point the worst is over, but you may feel congested for a week or more. Except in newborns, colds themselves are not dangerous. They usually go away in 4 to 10 days without any special medicine.
A cold should last about seven days, Bergquist said. There's no proof of feeding a cold or starving a fever -- what you eat probably won't shorten that time of being sick. In the preschool age group, you can expect kids to get almost a cold every month during fall and winter months, Greenspan said. One cold can seem to stick around for a long time, but is really the result of catching multiple bugs, he said.