can you get sick from being cold?
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This is one of the most persistent myths about colds. The only way to catch a cold is by being exposed to a cold virus. Cold air may irritate an existing condition, such as asthma, which would weaken your immunity. This could make your body more receptive to a cold virus, but only if you come in contact with it. If you've caught a cold after getting chilled, it's only coincidence. \n\nI hope this will convince your parents. You can get hypothermia from being cold, but that is about it.
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There aren't really medicines that will prevent you from getting a cold, however taking adult multivitamins, and making sure that you are eating healthy and exercises, substantially lowers your risk for getting a cold. Also making sure you wash your hands, or carry hand sanitizer with you can help. Also, avoiding people who have the cold will help too. :) Making sure your immunity is up is KEY!
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No, actually being IN cold weather protects more from the viruses because the virus cannot survive in the cold air. The viruses are usually transferred through physical contact OR in the air inside our nice toasty homes. Hint: Keep your thermostats below 68 degrees in the winter and stay healthy
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you are not infected by cold.\nOnly flu spreed more quickly when is cold.\nTake pills
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I believe you're asking if getting caught in the rain can make you catch a cold or otherwise get sick.  The answer is no. You'd have to catch a virus to get sick. I was just watching that myth get debunked on a TV show called "Dr. Know." He took two healthy males, dipped their heads in water, and then had them sit in a walk-in freezer for about 45 min. Afterwards, their hair was frosty and the guys were very cold, but they had no running noses or anything yet. He checked back on them a full week later. Nothing. Other people who were briefly exposed to a virus became sick. I was surprised. I was always taught that getting caught in the rain or going outside in the winter w/ freshly-washed, wet hair made people sick.
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I just want to clear this up for the majority of the population who reads this, YOU CANNOT GET A COLD OR THE FLU FROM GOING OUTSIDE. The common cold and influenza are viruses and is only caused by being in contact with the germ. pnuemonia is a different story.
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if you have poison in your body - which an infection is- it can travel to all parts via the blood system. It is not unusual to feel ill if you have infections\nIf you are at all concerned - off to the doctor with you.
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not if you have a cold.
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When you feel the cold just starting, drink a shot (one is enough) of any 80 proof alcohol (hope you're over 21 ;). If you were late and the cold is full blown, drink lots of fluids. Common cold is a virus, and viruses wash away. Try tea with lemon or honey, chicken soup is excellent. Avoid things that make you thirsty: carbonated drinks, coffee etc. If you can tolerate warm milk, it's a great thing to have. My colds don't last for more then two days.
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You could raise your internal temperature by dressing in heavy clothes, but your internal thermometer will remain normal - and you will sweat in an effort to maintain a normal temp.  \n\nOn the other hand when you are ill your body resets its temperature (thought to be a defensive mechanism to help fight infection several ways).  In that case you can bundle up and sometimes are still feeling chilled.  What happens when you break a fever...you sweat, cooling your body, bringing it back to normal temp.
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Every year, as each winter season approaches us, it gets harder and harder for people to avoid getting a cold. It never fails, just as soon as the weather changes a little and starts to turn cold, people begin to sniffle, sneeze and cough and the symptoms of the common cold begin to come around once again. \n\n\nBut before you run out to the nearest store to buy a supply of tissues, cold medicine and soup, you need to understand exactly what you are up against. Your chances of being exposed to a cold germ will increase or decrease depending on the amount of contact you have with other people and how you take care of yourself. \n\n\n \nThe cold germ is spread from person to person when someone, who is infected, sneezes or coughs into the air or on you. The airborne germ then enters someone else’s body through an orifice, like your eyes, nose or mouth. You can also catch a cold by touching something that a person who has been infected has also touched and then touching your mouth, nose or eyes. \n\n\nThere are many things that you can do to prevent yourself from getting a cold. \n\n\n1. You should wash your hands a lot. This frequent hand washing, especially when using any anti-bacterial soap, will help you to get rid of any potential germs that you might have come into contact with. \n\n\n\n2. You should carry and use anti-bacterial hand lotion several times throughout the day. Use it especially when you cannot get to a bathroom and you know you have touched something infected or have been near an infected person. \n\n\n\n3. You should also get plenty of sleep or rest. If you are tired and fatigued, your body’s resistance decreases and you will find that you are more susceptible to colds. \n\n\nThere are many ways that you can fight a cold once you have caught one. \n\n\n1. You should eat spicy foods. Spicy hot foods will cause your body to expel mucus. When you eat these types of foods, your nose will start to run and you will begin to cough up mucus. Spicy foods work just like a natural decongestant but without side effects. This advice is good for those people who cannot take over the counter medication. \n\n\n\n2. You should drink plenty of liquids. Liquids like soup, water, juice and flat ginger ale will keep your body hydrated. This is true especially if you have a fever. During a fever, your body loses a lot of fluids. You will need to replenish what you have lost. Therefore you need to drink often throughout your illness. You should also avoid drinking any dairy drinks because the dairy will cause mucus to form and coat your throat making it very difficult for you to swallow and cough. \n\n\n\n3. You should use a vaporizer. It will keep the air that you breathe moist. If you do not have a vaporizer handy, then just crack open the windows in your home. This is very important if you have an extremely warm and dry home. Cracking the windows will have the same effects that a vaporizer has.
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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.\nWorrying, and stress weakens your immune system, making you more susceptible to colds.\nAn healthy diet, plenty of fruit and veg, and water aids the immune system.\n\nIf somebody sneezes in your presents the best avoidance advise, is to temporarily breath through your mouth.\n\nChristmas 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.
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Sickness is caused by either a virus or bacteria which is already in your body and when your immune system is weak enough, it invades.  An open window can cause stress on your immune system by your body having to deal with the "stress" of wind blowing on you and/or adjusting your body temperature to the elements.  But the window open by itself does not cause sickness.\n\nIt may cause allergy symptoms which sometimes mimic sickness with runny nose or sneezing. This could be because allergens blow in and your system is trying to repel them.  Then, as your system deals with allergens, it can weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to bacteria or a virus in your body.\n\nBut a person without allergies or with a strong immune system can sleep by an open window and never experience any adverse effects--especially if they are used to sleeping next to an open window and their body has developed a tolerance to it over a long period of time.
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No, rain cannot give you a cold.  What it can do, however, is lower your defenses making your body more vulnerable to infection by the virus which actually causes the cold.  This is especially true when the rain is accompanied by lower temperatures and windy conditions.
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be careful man you can get very sick doing that
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do it be tyme to get ill yet?
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That is a really funny question.  I guess I never associated the words good and sick together before.  Just do the opposite of what your momma told you when you were little to prevent catching a cold. You know, don't wear a coat, go out with a wet head, don't wear a hat, wear shoes with no socks, don't eat right and get plenty of sleep, and of course do go out and stand in the rain and get soaked.