By chance have you heretofore endured a cold? By chance did you eliminate the cold? Naturally you got over it! You will not cure an acute rhinitis itself, yet your system normally establishes resistance to a particular cold infection within a couple of days. We call that treated by your own immune system!Adults have in the past had a lot of the cold infections. Parents have acquired immunity to the ones they have actually had. So there are not as many cold viruses remaining for adults to acquire. That is why parents only get a few runny noses per year and youngsters usually get 10-12 runny noses per year.