"put something on or you'll catch a cold"

[rh71]

by that phrase, how does one catch a cold if it's supposed to be a virus ?

 

[Chronoshock]

There's that dumb belief that being cold will give you a cold.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

R E P O S T

 

[Syringer]

Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: rh71
by that phrase, how does one catch a cold if it's supposed to be a virus ?

You have to get the virus from SOMEWHERE - i.e. "catch" it.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

thats called hypothermia, which occurs when your body temperature is lower than normal. you can 'feel' cold and still have normal body temperature, and doesnt imply your immune system is weaker.

 

[Pex]

This wive's tale is almost as bad as thinking excess amounts of beer will kill brain cells....ahHAHAHa.....hehah......hehee.......heh ..... 😕

 

[allisolm]

Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Studies say that this is just not true.

http://www.drmirkin.com/morehealth/9941.html

http://www.dukehealth.org/tips/tip_20031104201033720

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

 

[Amused]

It's a myth. The reason colds and flus were associated with cold weather is because they spread so rapidly in the winter when people closed themselves up in unventilated rooms and stayed close for warmth. It had nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with how we changed our social habits in the cold weather.

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

Sigh. No.🙁

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

I'd have to disagree with Spiderboy and you.

 

[Lazy8s]

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

Sigh. No.

Agreed, this has been proven false. The opposite is actually true. Why do you get a temperature when you're sick??

Because viruses are EXTREMELY sensative to temperature. If your body temp isn't JUST right then the virus cannot replicate itself and you can destroy it easier, so technically if you don't want to catch a virus you should go outside naked in 30degree weather because the virus will die when it enters your body. When you warm up it might start to replicate, but then your body will raise it's internal temperature to stop the replication again. So the next time you get sick from a virus you can either warm yourself up or sit in a bathtub with ice, either way it'll do the same thing.

 

[ThePresence]

Jeez. Just don't open attachments, you'll be fine.

 

[Gimli43Orcs]

you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

Kindly refer to Amused's post in this same thread.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

Kindly refer to Amused's post in this same thread.

My office, house, car, etc. are just as closed up and ventilated in the summer as in the winter...
I think he was talking historically.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

😕

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

heh my brother has a cold right now. He lives in San Diego.

 

[Cogman]

actually, you are more likly to get pneumonia then a cold. A cold is cause by a virus. But pneumonia can be cause from a variaty of things, and being too cold I believe is one of them.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

"You might get sick" would be more accurate.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Gimli43Orcs
you usually get colds from a person sneezing at you (droplets in the air)-not from the environment. so that makes temperatures irrelevant

if Temp. is irrelevant, why do I only get colds in the winter? I know I'm not the only one.

Kindly refer to Amused's post in this same thread.

My office, house, car, etc. are just as closed up and ventilated in the summer as in the winter...
I think he was talking historically.

Maybe other people have more closed up places, then they come to your places, and it gets spread.

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: Lazy8s

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

Sigh. No.

Agreed, this has been proven false. The opposite is actually true. Why do you get a temperature when you're sick??

Because viruses are EXTREMELY sensative to temperature. If your body temp isn't JUST right then the virus cannot replicate itself and you can destroy it easier, so technically if you don't want to catch a virus you should go outside naked in 30degree weather because the virus will die when it enters your body. When you warm up it might start to replicate, but then your body will raise it's internal temperature to stop the replication again. So the next time you get sick from a virus you can either warm yourself up or sit in a bathtub with ice, either way it'll do the same thing.

Virus will die when it enters your body @ 30degrees weather? Either the virus is dead when it enters or the virus enters while it is alive, it doesn't just die because it goes into your body. Your body is regulated by homeostasis, so how exactly will the virus die when your body is keeping the organs warm? I guess your frosty nose-hairs will kill it? ROFL!!!
Are you being serious about sitting in a bathtub of ice when you're sick? Since a fever is the body's way to "burn" away the sickness, why the hell would you do the opposite? By chilling your body, your metabolism/body functions slow down, INCLUDING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. The virus doesn't really care since there are many of them deeper in your body that is still warm.

Ever heard of people getting brain damage from very high fevers? That is called letting the virus fester in your body for too long before you actually do something about it, like get OUT OF THE ICED bathtub.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Atomicus

Originally posted by: Lazy8s

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Syringer
Being cold lowers the strength of your immune system, making you more likely to catch a virus or get sick.

Spiderman is correct. When your immune system is suppressed due to temperature drop, the virus gets a head start on your body. By the time you're warmed up again, the immune system has to catch up and fight it back.

Sigh. No.

Agreed, this has been proven false. The opposite is actually true. Why do you get a temperature when you're sick??

Because viruses are EXTREMELY sensative to temperature. If your body temp isn't JUST right then the virus cannot replicate itself and you can destroy it easier, so technically if you don't want to catch a virus you should go outside naked in 30degree weather because the virus will die when it enters your body. When you warm up it might start to replicate, but then your body will raise it's internal temperature to stop the replication again. So the next time you get sick from a virus you can either warm yourself up or sit in a bathtub with ice, either way it'll do the same thing.

Virus will die when it enters your body @ 30degrees weather? Either the virus is dead when it enters or the virus enters while it is alive, it doesn't just die because it goes into your body. Your body is regulated by homeostasis, so how exactly will the virus die when your body is keeping the organs warm? I guess your frosty nose-hairs will kill it? ROFL!!!
Are you being serious about sitting in a bathtub of ice when you're sick? Since a fever is the body's way to "burn" away the sickness, why the hell would you do the opposite? By chilling your body, your metabolism/body functions slow down, INCLUDING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. The virus doesn't really care since there are many of them deeper in your body that is still warm.

Ever heard of people getting brain damage from very high fevers? That is called letting the virus fester in your body for too long before you actually do something about it, like get OUT OF THE ICED bathtub.

LOL

1) viruses aren't technically alive. They are a string of RNA looking for a place to reproduce.

2) fever is the body's way of dealing with infection.

3) viruses don't repond well to fevers. Bacterial infection will die faster than a viral infection will during a fever.

4) fevers can be fatal when allowed to get too high.

You are supposed to bring a fever down when it hits 102 or higher. An ice bath helps, as does an alcohol rub down. Children are most at risk due to developing brain.