can you get a cold now?

Question

now that it is winter

Answer 1

To get a cold, you need to get a version of a cold virus into the nose or eye ducts. Touching your nose is enough if you have touched a virus from something like a door handle.
Worrying, and stress weakens your immune system, making you more susceptible to colds.
An healthy diet, plenty of fruit and veg, and water aids the immune system.

If somebody sneezes in your presents the best avoidance advise, is to temporarily breath through your mouth.

Christmas is a common time for lots of people to get colds, partly because they are trying to do too much, it becomes stressful, partly because lots of people meet around that time, and cold viruses abound. People are most infectious before they have obvious symptoms.

Answer 2

A "cold" is simply the common term we use to cover huge numbers of minor viruses that aren't significant enough to deserve their own name.

The reason colds are more common in the winter is actually because we tend to spend more time indoors, in close proximity to each other. Viruses also survive longer outside the body in warm conditions. Put those two things together and you can see that viruses will spread more easily in the winter.

If you were outside on a cold winter's day, you would be very unlikely to catch a cold, because, if someone sneezed in your direction, the freezing temperatures would kill the virus almost immediately.

leviathan (above) says that once we've had a cold virus we are immune to it for a year. I thought that we keep the antibodies (and the knowledge of how to make more) for life. So once you've had a particular cold virus you'll never get ill from it again - beyond a bit of a runny nose. I'm happy to accept I may be wrong in that belief if someone else knows better.

Answer 3

You can get a cold anytime of the year if you are in contact with the virus. If the question is will you get the cold because it is cold then the answer is no. You might get hypothermia from being very cold but being exposed to cooler tempratures will not give you the cold.

However another answer on this list was right in saying that you tend to spend more time indoors where you might get it form somebody carrying it.

Answer 4

You most certainly can! In fact, I will send you mine if you would like one!

Winter is the most likely time for a cold due to the "cold" weather. People tend to be indoors, in closer contact with others and the viruses are more easily spread.

Answer 5

You can get a cold at any time. Get over one and u should be immune from that strain for about a year, but u might catch another straight away. As for bird flu we are being told it mutates.

Answer 6

do you want a cold?? if so strip naked, load your self up with drink & drugs, dance in the garden, with the Doors playing L.A Woman full blast this will work, then when the cold kicks in big time, get a bottle of night nurse, a good dose of scotch and your there, whistling dixie, To avoid a COLD SIT IN ON SATURDAY NIGHT WITH A CUP OF TEA WRAPPED IN A BLANKET & watch the b.....dy ex factor, did think of a carrier in the medical profession ................

Answer 7

colds are viral infections caused by spreading bacteria in droplet form. eg: sneezing, coughing, even on the breath. you cannot catch a cold from cold weather. antibiotics don't work cause they treat bacterial infections not viral. a viral cold will naturally burn itself out in about 10 days. you can treat the symptoms though

Answer 8

Yes. This is cold and flu season. Dress warm, drink a lot of fluids, and take some cold and flu medicines when you get it.

Answer 9

Yes you most certainly can especially this time of the year it is just the right time to get one.

Answer 10

yes u can, u can get colds pretty much any time of the year!