Or if you put those clothes back in your closet, say a jumper or sweater, will wearing it at a later date give you a cold again?
2007-03-11 21:54:48 · 8 answers · asked by Link 4 in Health ➔ Other - Health
No because you have built an immunity to that cold. If you have a new strain of cold or whatnot, your body really doesn't know how to handle it so it kind of spirals out of control until you kill it off. Your immune system, however, actually logs in that strain of cold and remembers it so the next time it comes into your body, your immune system immediately recognizes it and kills it off before it has time to grow. (However there is an expiration date on this, your immune system will only remember things for so long.... but we're talking anywhere from a couple of years to decades).
Think Chicken Pox or the vaccines you get. For most people, you get chicken pox and then you never get it again (immunity). Or when you get vaccinated.... vaccines are small harmless versions of the disease itself... the point of vaccines are so that your body sees this small harmless disease and immediately logs it in so that if you ever actually come in contack with, say measles, then your body will destroy it.
Also consider people who work in hospitals. Most people who work in hospitals after a number of years have a relatively strong immunity (much greater than the average person) due to being around bacteria all the time... their immunity becomes super strong.
The other "however" is if you've been sneezing and sweating all over your clothes and then put them back in the closet or on top of a bunch of other clothes then you're cross-contaminating these items. You're putting other people (who haven't had your particular strain of the cold) at a slight risk for getting it (so you should wash your clothes fairly soon after being sick if not immediately).
Hope this helps.
2007-03-12 03:37:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wearing thick clothing does keep one warm thus its recommended for those suffering or having cold. However, its best to have the clothes washed or dry-cleaned prior to keeping them in the closet. You don't want the bacterias to spread to your other clothes in the closet. That, may bring about a different illness.
2007-03-11 22:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by SGElite 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
being bodily chilly does no longer make you ill. nicely, it would not until eventually you count number hypothermia, that can kill you. Or Frostbite, which finally ends up in needing body elements amputated in the journey that they don't fall off all by ability of themselves. Freezing does no longer make you ill. it may kill you inspite of the actuality that. also, i have self assurance that it can make you drained (by shivering) that can decrease your immune reaction, making you more beneficial susceptible to the germs and bacteria you'll encounter in the iciness. human beings congregate at the same time interior and the germs are spread without delay by the close contact. so that you will be round more beneficial germs.
2016-12-01 21:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by lewan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because you have already had that particular strain, so your body becomes immune, and you cannot get the same infection twice, there are over 200 strains of the common cold and you never catch the same cold twice, they all give the same symptoms though, so if feels the same.
2007-03-11 21:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you can wear them again once you have washed the. I never heard people every getting sick for that.
2007-03-11 22:03:56 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not if you wash them first
2007-03-11 22:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by ladyR 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
germs are germs...some live longer than others...wash them in warm to hot water......good luck
2007-03-11 22:04:13 · answer #7 · answered by Michael K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, im pretty sure it wont but whats best is to Wash yor clothes...:P
2007-03-11 21:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋