
What are you likely to feel like the rest of your week? Most often, symptoms of this upper respiratory tract infection crest around day four, and go away on their own within 7 to 10 days, says Aaron E. Glatt, MD, the chief of infectious diseases and a hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, New York.


Yep, those are the first symptoms of a cold, which typically appear in adults about one to three days after exposure to a cold-causing virus. Yesterday you felt fine, but today your nose is running and your throat feels scratchy.
