Is it true that cold air gets you sick?

Question

Everyone says that if you go outside w/o a hat/jacket/scarf or with wet hair, you'll get sick. I don't understand this logic, how does cold air make someone sick?

Answer 1

When you get really cold, your immune system slows down, so it makes your body more vulnerable to those little virus and bacteria that are floating around to enter and attack your body.

Answer 2

No. The germs and viruses cannot thrive in the cold environment. You get sick when you come in to a warm house, that's when the viruses and germs become active. I knew of a native american woman who would sit her baby in front of an open window in the winter time. This kid never got sick. My chemistry professor in college told me that if you catch a cold at the very beginning and drink a gallon of orange juice (at one sitting) it would stop the cold from progressing.

Answer 3

Yes. Cold air mades you sick viz if you are exposed you get common cold. It can make the life miserable. Read in details -

Acute viral nasopharyngitis, often known as the common cold, is a mild viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). Symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, runny nose, nasal congestion; scratchy, sore, or phlegmy throat; coughing; headache; and tiredness. Colds typically last three to five days, with residual coughing lasting up to three weeks. As its name suggests, it is the most common of all human diseases, infecting adults at an average rate of 2-4 infections per year, and school aged children as many as 12 times per year. Infection rates greater than three infections per year per person are not uncommon in some populations. Children and their parents or caretakers are at a higher risk, possibly due to the high population density of schools and the fact that transmission to family members is highly efficient.

The common cold belongs to the upper respiratory tract infections. It is different from influenza, a more severe viral infection of the respiratory tract that shows the additional symptoms of rapidly rising fever, chills, and body and muscle aches. While the common cold itself is rarely life threatening, its complications, such as pneumonia, can very well be.

Answer 4

The cold air lowers your immune system making you more susceptible to getting sick from the germs already around you.

Answer 5

Cold air itself won't make you get sick, but the cold virus thrives in cold weather. Meaning if you repeatedly expose yourself to the cold, the viruses in your body will multiply and multiply until you start to feel like your getting a cold.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

No, the cold air makes people go inside where they are around other people. One of whom is probably sick.

Answer 7

If you stand in the rain for a long time you get sick the next day.

Answer 8

no. only viruses or germs makes you sick. cold air makes you sick of being cold!

Answer 9

No, colds come from germs....so unless this "cold air" contains the germs, it can't make you sick.

Answer 10

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