The phrase "a normal cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a common cold, distinguishing it from more severe illnesses or conditions.
Example: "After feeling under the weather for a few days, I realized I just had a normal cold and not the flu."
Alternatives: "a typical cold" or "a common cold".
These early symptoms are usually what distinguishes the flu from just a normal cold.
Coughs, sneezes and touching objects or surfaces with the virus are common ways to become infected, much like a normal cold.
"There has been a spike in pneumonia cases that have drawn the health officials' attention, but the virus may have been going around as a normal cold".
As reporters gathered around the London deathbed of Sophie de Salis, she whispered, "I had a cough and was under the weather … but really it was just like a normal cold".
"With these temperatures you're going to have issues with exposed skin and frostbite, but not to the degree of severity of the last outbreak," he said, describing it as "a normal cold event you'd see in a typical winter".
During the first few weeks after contracting measles, a child's immune system will be compromised, and a normal cold or diarrhoea can become a life threatening disease in developing countries where children have limited or no access to medical treatment.
A seemingly normal cold virus resulting in a sudden drop in form.
It is concluded that cold allodynia activates a network similar to that of normal cold pain but additionally recruits bilateral DLPFC and the midbrain, suggesting that these brain areas are involved in central nociceptive sensitisation processes.
This year, cyclists could either treat the event as a normal (albeit cold) 50-mile-long bike race that takes them all over the city, or they could embrace the true spirit of the event and down a shot of liquor or a beer at each of the nine checkpoints.
Again, this is ill like the normal cold and stuff; it just keeps eating up days".
The virus of the normal cold and eye flue is the same which is communicable.
