I like to sleep with a fan blowing on me and my girl hates it . She thinks that it going to get me sick.
2007-01-07 12:41:01 · 11 answers · asked by TOM V 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Is she..........not brite? Sorry to be mean, but that's something that an ignorant person would think. She's probably basing it off of the old wive's tale about going into the cold with no coat. Going into the cold with no coat will not make you sick, or catch a cold. If you are in very cold weather for a long period of time, with no insulation, you can get hypothermia, which means that your body basically shuts down because it can't operate when that cold. The fan will not make you sick. I've been sleeping with the fan blowing on me for about two years now, and I am plenty healthy.
2007-01-07 13:06:23 · answer #1 · answered by summer_00_butterfly 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have to sleep with a fan on at night, however I don't have it blowing on me. When it did blow on me, it would cause me to get a slight cold, a little bit of a running nose, but thats about it. Now I use a little fan that cleans the air with a filter, so it can be viewed more as a necessity or at least have a purpose.
2007-01-07 12:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by rooting4 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One night I went to bed after just washing my hair. It was still wet and I let a fan blow over me all night long. I woke up with the worse sore throat I've ever had. I don't that anymore. I have an AC, but use the fans to block street noise when I sleep during the day summer or winter.
2007-01-07 12:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's probably not the best thing to have one blowing directly on your face. But, I have a fan going, 24/7, and I have never gotten sick from it. I also have a ceiling fan over my bed that goes 24/7.
2007-01-07 14:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by country girl 006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
germs make you sick
cold air does not
When someone says, "I have a cold," what he or she means is, "There is something in my body that is causing me to have the set of symptoms that we call a 'cold.'" The set of symptoms normally includes things like a runny nose, sneezing, coughing, "chills" and a headache. It does not include a fever -- normally, if there is a fever it's called "the flu."
There are many different viruses that can cause cold symptoms, but about half of the time a cold is caused by a class of viruses called rhinoviruses.
The rhinovirus gets into the cells lining your nose and starts reproducing. It arrives from other people -- it is not cold weather that causes a cold, but the fact that cold weather causes people to congregate together indoors, which makes transmission of the virus easier. The virus generally moves from someone else's hands to your hands (either directly or through some intermediate surface like a door knob), and from your hands into your nose or eyes.
Your body reacts to the presence of the virus with its immune system. The article How Your Immune System Works talks about infectious diseases and how your immune system deals with them. In the case of a cold, the immune system opens up blood vessels through inflammation and also increases mucus secretions. These two processes give you the runny nose and the stuffy feeling. The irritation caused by the virus and all of the fluid causes sneezing. If the virus makes it into the cells lining the lungs, then they start producing fluid and mucus as well, which produces the cough.
As the immune system gears up over several days and fights the virus, the mucus thickens and changes color with dead cells (a form of pus, really). Eventually, the immune system eliminates the virus completely and you are well again!
2007-01-07 12:48:09 · answer #5 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my husband sleeps with the fan on, and i dont like it...but, if you go to sleep with the cold air blowing and you sleep with your mouth open or snore, the air blowing all night does tend to irritate my throat and my husbands throat sometimes, causing a sore a.m. throat...so in that sense yeah...i too think you could get sick, runny nose or if you go to bed with wet hair or maybe even blow the germs around, but maybe that's just a girl thing to think that way ;)
2007-01-07 12:51:26 · answer #6 · answered by mickeymouse_96 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I have been through this with my French husband who thinks any sort of fan or open window or draft will make him sick: it does not.
Finally, he has to be convinced all the French old wives tales were wrong when we moved to the Gulf Coast where a fan is a wonderful gift from Heaven - not the instrument of illness.
2007-01-07 12:49:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The worst I've ever gotten is a sore throat and I sleep with the fan on all the time, even in winter!
2007-01-07 12:48:39 · answer #8 · answered by David H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once read of a man in the early 1920's that went to church with his family and they arrived too early. It had snowed. The husband got bored and took off over-coat and went outside and shoveled off the side walks. That night this man got pneumonia and died
that night! It was a story in a REMEMBRANCE magazine. The article had a photo
with the husband with his young family and I wondered why the husband was not with the family as they got older. THE COLD CAN KILL YOU!
2016-07-13 14:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by Diane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. For me, whenever I finish taking a shower and sleep with the fan on, I DO get a cold. But, if I dont then no i wont get sick!
2007-01-07 12:44:20 · answer #10 · answered by juicy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋