Does temperature have anything to do with getting sick?

Question

You know how your parents and grandparents used to say, "Come out of the cold or you'll get sick...."

Answer 1

There is some evidence that a sudden chill has an effect on our resistance to infection, but the germs have to be there in sufficient numbers and strength to take advantage of the opportunity. Actually the bodily mechanism of the "chill" is not well
understood, but it is not related to environmental temperature.

Answer 2

Rubbish. When it is cold there are less germs around, people get colds in the winter, because the climate changes. More likely to get a cold in the summer, germs multiply, especially if you are in an office or populated public place. No, temperature does not make you sick. Only if you have a temperature, ie. hot forhead, then you are ill.

Answer 3

I once saw an article about that written by a doctor and it said that cold weather cannot make you sick, its actually the germs that are in the air that make you sick. If you are in close place where there in not much ventilation, like school or work, the germs are everywhere and all the germs are spreading from people to people, and thats how you get sick.

Answer 4

Your body temperature is or should be constant(normal).
If it increases then you are possibly suffering from some illness. Except women when they ovulate every month.
If you are not too well with a very slightly raised body temp then going out into cold or wet etc will hasten the severity of that latent illness, which might not have developed more otherwise.
Experiments putting fit people into cold and wet conditions did not indicate that this would cause illness.

Answer 5

Prolonged exposure to cold can lower your immune system's response. But mostly, people get sick more in the winter because of close contact with other people who are similarly avoiding the cold.

Answer 6

If you lived above the arctic circle or even around the North Pole you'd never get a cold as germs can't survive below freezing.

Answer 7

you mean actually being sick? it can do, a fever (temp over 36 degrees) is a sign of inpending doom (illness or infection) but can also mean you've got the radiators on too hot or that its that time of the month (body temp is higher) haha

A temp of 40 or over is dangerous....

hope i helped....

Answer 8

No. you get sick when you have been exposed to either viral or bacterial material