#man-flu

© C A Lovegrove Feeling grotty today. Fuzzy head now and then as though in a vice, faint and indeterminate aches and pains, a necessary box of tissues to hand. In fact, I’m feeling rather sorry for myself. I’m not working but I have a yearning to phone up someone, somewhere, and call in sick. But then I remember a dim and distant time when I must’ve caught every childhood infection that was…

Ladies, I’d like to offer a heartfelt apology on behalf of the entire male population, because men have proven time and time again that they’re simply the worst.

Claiming to be the dominating gender and the breadwinner for their families, these he-men will become manbabies once the winter flu comes to town. Some would claim that men don’t cry, but if you’ve ever been in the vicinity of any male with something as small as the sniffles, you know all too well that it’s simply untrue. The term “man flu” has even made its way into the Oxford Dictionary to adequately describe just how annoying men can be when they get sick.

But while most women think their significant others might be over exaggerating their symptoms, science has come to the defense of men everywhere, proving once and for all that maybe (just maybe) it doesn’t all boil down to dramatics.

This past week, the medical world weighed in on the topic of the “man flu” thanks to a Canadian study published in The BMJ, which declared that men may actually get sicker than women when cold season hits.

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Dr. Kyle Sue of the Memorial University of Newfoundland collected and analyzed all the relevant medical data he could find in regard to gender differences in the severity of flu symptoms.

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Through his research, Sue concluded that there is substantial evidence to suggest that there is likely an immunity gap between men and women when it comes to cold and flu symptoms.

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Well today has been a long interesting day.  It has been the first day of me working as a full-time stay at home dad. It’s been a bit of a caper  My wife went back to work today starting a new job and she started this morning. So that left me on my own with the little one.  It’s been a difficult day. Both of us, the little one and I, are both choked with the cold.  I have got zero energy and shes…

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I have a cold :(  My other half actually functions when he has a cold and I am the one that suffers from “Man-Flu”, constantly proclaiming that I am dying to persuade him to bring me food. Yesterday I cried because I wanted my grandmothers soup and she lives in 150 miles away. So dramatic. The only perks of having a cold are the weird and wonderful cocktail ideas people throw at you to get rid of…

With Winter creeping in and the skies darkening and dampening, the dreaded plague, Man-Flu, is taking over the male population.

Man-Flu Ambassador Mick Meredith sings about it here.

Catch a well-recovered Mick as he headlines The Laugh Stand at Harold Park this Tuesday 28 April!

Starts at 8pm, and you can get your tickets HERE or at the door!