Will walking around with wet, cold feet cause me to catch a cold?

[Powermoloch]

Lol NO way, like others said before me. It is usually when your immune screwed up in some way, then you can have a cold. HIV anyone?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: kranky
Here's the story I saw recently.

Yeah, that's the one I pulled up, too. That doesn't seem a bit sketchy to you?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Lol NO way, like others said before me. It is usually when your immune screwed up in some way, then you can have a cold. HIV anyone?

HIV+ people don't suffer from many more, if any more colds and flus than healthy people.

As this site points out:

http://www.commoncold.org/special1.htm

Healthy people with normal immune systems are highly susceptible to cold virus infection once the virus enters the nose. In volunteers studies, approximately 95% of normal adults became infected when virus was dropped into the nose (72, also see How Cold Virus Infection Occurs).

People with AIDS (not just HIV+) suffer from uncommon diseases most people's immune systems easily avoid. They used to be most common in the elderly and immunosuppressed.

 

[Acanthus]

Sounds like a job for mythbusters!

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Lol NO way, like others said before me. It is usually when your immune screwed up in some way, then you can have a cold. HIV anyone?

HIV+ people don't suffer from many more, if any more colds and flus than healthy people.

As this site points out:

http://www.commoncold.org/special1.htm

Healthy people with normal immune systems are highly susceptible to cold virus infection once the virus enters the nose. In volunteers studies, approximately 95% of normal adults became infected when virus was dropped into the nose (72, also see How Cold Virus Infection Occurs).

People with AIDS (not just HIV+) suffer from uncommon diseases most people's immune systems easily avoid. They used to be most common in the elderly and immunosuppressed.

Of course it is less likely to have the flu, but opportunistic infections like the FLU can be very bad with HIV/AIDs individuals. Just look at it, when you practically lost almost all of your T Cells, you're pretty much screwed up to the wazoo honestly. Even though with the drugs these days that can keep your T Cell count up and your viral load down, still FLU viruses can come in many flavours and can be fatal for a few (healthy person or HIV+/AIDS) if not treated immediately.