QUIZ: Is It A Cold, The Flu Or Allergies?

Late February doesn't seem like it should be prime flu season, with spring just a few weeks away, but the 2011/2012 flu season has just now officially begun.

While flu season can start as early as October and run as late as April, there hadn't been enough reported cases in the U.S. until last week, according to the CDC.

Sickness levels are continuing to rise. California has reported the most widespread flu activity so far, with other Western states close behind. States in the Northeast and Midwest are still only reporting minimal cases, according to ABC News.

But there's another surprising reason for those sniffles that's not usually seen in February: This unseasonably warm winter has caused spring allergy season to start earlier than usual.

So what do your symptoms mean? Take our quiz to find out if you've got a cold, the flu or an early bout of spring allergies.

Is It A Cold, The Flu Or Allergies?

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Question 1 of 5

Your nose just won't stop running, and when you blow it, your mucus is a shade of yellow. You probably have:

A cold

The flu

Allergies

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[ATLBravesFan]

03:11 PM on 02/27/2012

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I can't see the answers. It just keeps bringing me back to question 1.

[Reality always bites]

03:22 PM on 02/23/2012

It is proven that colds, flu, most allergies and swine flu are all caused by contact with other people- Keep away from them!

[esso man]

04:22 PM on 02/23/2012

keep telling the mother-in-law that (especialy the part "swine flu") but all I get is a slap !!! & she STILL keeps comong around !!

[Reality always bites]

04:37 PM on 02/23/2012

Les Dawson dead- Frank Carson dead- Esso man lives!
My mother in law is also out of the picture- but if I remember correctly -She never gave me anything!

[Al Schrader]

08:03 PM on 02/22/2012

The flu shot covers all of the flus including H1N1 for $25.00 I got the flu vaccine in April and haven't even gotten a hiccup....Alfie-

[Reality always bites]

03:18 PM on 02/23/2012

After spending (Wasting $25) it's no wonder you cannot afford a hiccup!

[Al Schrader]

05:26 PM on 02/23/2012

If there is anybody who can calculate a cost/benefit ratio, it's me. The $25.00 flu shot is one of the best investments I ever made. I've been surrounded by wheezy, sneezy, sniffling, snufflupagusted feverish coughing people for months. Last year, I got the flu and spent two days in bed, used $35.00 worth of, and missed two days work. Not this year....Al-

[Mindy Czech]

03:47 AM on 02/23/2012

Lay off the crack, son.

[coach5532]

04:22 PM on 02/22/2012

I disagree with your answer to question 1. I am more inclined to believe it is a sinus infection related to allergies than a cold.

[nbart71]

12:14 PM on 02/23/2012

Sinus infections are more greenish in color. Bright yellow usually means a cold.

[mcurtis2962]

02:21 PM on 02/22/2012

I always throw up when I get the flu, so I guess I have always caught swine flu my whole 50 years.

[nbart71]

12:15 PM on 02/23/2012

Nah, just a bad flu of some sort. Trust me (as somebody whose had it), if you had swine flu- you'd know it.

[mcurtis2962]

03:09 PM on 02/24/2012

Yea, I kinda figured. I just react to the regular flu badly. That's why I alway get a flu shot.