Catching a cold from the cold....
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| Sat, 01-12-2008 - 9:08pm |
Just wanted to share part of an article that I just typed up for my students. I thought this was very interesting.
From Family Fun magazine, February 2008, p. 54 (in article, "Fact or Fiction?" by Leslie Garisto Pfaff)
5. Going out in the cold with wet hair will make you sick. If you'd asked your doctor about this one a few years ago, she would have laughed and told you there was no correlation between the two. But a recent study in which half of the volunteers stuck their feet in ice water indicated that some people may be more susceptible to colds if they become chilled after exposure to a virus.
Bottom line: Although it's not definitive, your mom may have been right to nag you about wet hair. "If you've run your immune system down--chilling might be a way of doing that--and you've been exposed to a virus, you could be more likely to come down with a cold," says Diana Noah, Ph.D., a research virologist at Southern Research Institute.











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