Why do we tend to get colds and flu in the winter?

Answer 1

Because we lock ourselves in with all the germs and viruses because we don't want to get cold.

Answer 2

A virus is an opportunist.

In the winter, we tend to stay indoors and we have the heating on. We go to work or the pub or somewhere (even just shopping) and the doors are shut and the heating is on. In the summer we are likely to have the doors open at work and at the pub. Mostly we are carrying the virus around with us all of the time but it doesn't get the chance to catch hold if there is lots of fresh air around.

Personally, I also have a theory that we all suffer from SADS (Seasonal Adjustment Disorder Syndrome) to some extent. This means that your body is at a lower ebb during the long dark nights and really wants lots of daylight. I can't imagine that the vitamin D produced by sunlight has anything to do with it but it may just be a case of how we feel.

I also believe that we take in far too little vitamin C in the winter, which is the most useful vitamin in combating infections such as these. In the summer we eat lots of fresh, raw vegetables, salads and fruits etc but in the winter a lot of the veg we eat has been stored and lost its vitamin C content or we cook it, which also destroys the vitamin C.

Take a vitamin C supplement every day and see how you get on! They are inexpensive and really quite tasty if you get the 'chewable orange' type from most chemists and supermarkets!

Answer 3

One reason is a critical lack of Vitamin D, a big vitamin for the immune system. We get vit D from sunlight.
A recent study which I have currently misplaced, has shown that taking 3-4 times the recommended daily allowance of VitD when you start to feel ill, can in fact ward off the infection. Doesn't work all the time, but the stats look good.

Answer 4

Very simple. Because it is cold outside people tend to stay inside with the doors and windows closed. Therefore germs tend to spread people to people because of lack of circulation.

Answer 5

Different viruses have different conditions - some you are likely to get in the summer (e.g. coronavirus) and some you are likely to get in the winter (e.g. rhinovirus). You tend to get them in the winter because people stay closer to each other in the winter and the air is drier, meaning the chance of infection is higher.

Answer 6

The virus breeds better in damp, enclosed environments, so in the winter when we close everything up and someone comes in with the virus, they will leave it behind in the room where they were - and .....

I am very strict about washing hands - especially in winter - and very seldom get a cold.

Answer 7

this is because in the winter many of us tend to spend more time indoors allowing the virus to spread.

Answer 8

Our body finds it hard to remain body temperature in cold weather so it spends more effort to remain temperature so it is more tiring to live at cold temperature so we become more open to viruses and microbial things in cold weather . Our immune system become exhausted while trying to resist cold weather and everything becomes harder to accomplish for body in cold weather . Cold weather only help men to produce more testosterone and sperms cause testicles works better at cold but not colder than 34 so it is not very useful for testicles too I mean temperatures such as 10 - 0 centigrade degrees.

Answer 9

i think viruses exist everywhere in the air, different virus for every temperature change. our body sensed a drop in humidity, or brain kicked in to produce a chemical to counterbalance it, it makes us lower our immune system to bring in the virus from air to create pleghm mucus which makes our lung always in moisture though it will make us cough.
i don't think no one been died of colds

Answer 10

I don't know but washing your hands or using handwash antibac helps