i heard that getting cold can't give you a cold, because getting a cold means you need to pick up a virus. what do you think?
2006-08-23 10:58:03 · 7 answers · asked by xiy 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
For the most part, when you are cold your immune system is weakend. But since a cold is virus, you can olny catch a cold if the virus is present. The reason why more people get sick in the winter is because their immune systems are weakend making it easier for them to catch whatever germs are around.
2006-08-23 11:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting cold in and of itself will not give you a cold. The common cold is a virus. What getting cold does is lower your resistance to the virus known to most of us (including me) as the common cold and therefore makes people suseptible to the virus.
2006-08-23 18:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by Crossroads Keeper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The common cold is caused by a virus, but getting cold for long period of time, or if unhealthy to begin with, can cause pneumonia; hypothermia and other similar problems.
2006-08-23 18:05:09 · answer #3 · answered by pol 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
getting chilled can lower your resistance
to catch a cold you have to be exposed to the common cold virus
2006-08-23 18:02:43 · answer #4 · answered by snowcrablegs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. It is a myth. I have also heard that colds aren't air borne, You have to actually Come in contact with it to catch it. WASH YOUR HANDS!!!
2006-08-23 18:06:54 · answer #5 · answered by Prissy_kitty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Colds are viruses
2006-08-23 18:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-08-23 18:03:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋