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"Bundle up. You're gonna catch a cold." Is plausible.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:38 am
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:38 am
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The new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirmed that finding, showing cold viruses replicated more efficiently and produced higher levels of infectious particles at the lower temperature.
Specifically 33 degrees C.
Bottomline, when your nose and nasal passageway is cool (from breathing cold air) you're creating an optimum environment for viruses to thrive. Additionally, the cool weather appears to lower our immune response to the invaders.
So your mom and/or grandmother may have been right all along.
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Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:39 am to GumboPot
My HS football coach told me that i couldn't catch a cold in a snowstorm.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:43 am to Displaced
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My HS football coach told me that i couldn't catch a cold in a snowstorm.
It's still the virus that causes the cold virus. Not the weather. However this study shows that cold weather makes us more susceptible to being infected with a virus because of two things:
1. It lowers the temperature of our nasal passages to an optimum level for the virus to thrive.
2. The cold weather lowers our immune response.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:44 am to GumboPot
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Bundle up. You're gonna catch a cold." Is plausible
It always has been.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:45 am to Displaced
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My HS football coach told me that i couldn't catch a cold in a snowstorm.
That's coach speak for, "You need to play defense, son."
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:49 am to SundayFunday
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It always has been.
I never knew why though. Now I do.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:50 am to GumboPot
quote:Duh, why do you think its called a cold...
Specifically 33 degrees C.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 11:52 am to GumboPot
quote:
It's still the virus that causes the cold virus. Not the weather. However this study shows that cold weather makes us more susceptible to being infected with a virus because of two things:
1. It lowers the temperature of our nasal passages to an optimum level for the virus to thrive.
2. The cold weather lowers our immune response.
I thought this had been accepted as fact for a long time...
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:02 pm to GumboPot
This still does nothing to shatter my belief that grannies around the nation were hardcore stupid for implying that wearing a jacket or not running outside naked would prevent us from getting sick.
The air I inhale in my body will still be the same temperature regardless of what I'm wearing. Granny was way too stupid to get this.
The air I inhale in my body will still be the same temperature regardless of what I'm wearing. Granny was way too stupid to get this.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:33 pm to Willie Stroker
new study: water is wet... film at 11!
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:36 pm to GumboPot
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Specifically 33 degrees C.
Considering 33 deg C is ~ 92 deg F, this argument makes no sense.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:41 pm to theantiquetiger
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Considering 33 deg C is ~ 92 deg F, this argument makes no sense.
That is lower than normal body temp. Not sure what you think does not make sense.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:47 pm to GumboPot
I always wondered about this and it was one of the first things I ever searched back in the dial up days of the internet. Well, after porn.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:49 pm to cheeriopiss
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That is lower than normal body temp. Not sure what you think does not make sense.
So we should bundle up when it's 92 degrees F or lower?
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:50 pm to GumboPot
You don't bundle up your nasal passages so putting on a sweater and coat won't reduce the likelihood of viral infection. So no it's not plausible.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:50 pm to GumboPot
You still have to get the virus from somewhere. You can't get a cold just because it's cold outside.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 12:53 pm to emanresu
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You don't bundle up your nasal passages so putting on a sweater and coat won't reduce the likelihood of viral infection. So no it's not plausible.
Did you miss the part about cold weather compromising your immune system?
This really isn't a revelation people, it's common knowledge.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 1:00 pm to GumboPot
Sounds like a ski mask would be better than a coat.
Posted on 1/7/15 at 1:01 pm to emanresu
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You don't bundle up your nasal passages so putting on a sweater and coat won't reduce the likelihood of viral infection. So no it's not plausible.
WOOOSH
Posted on 1/7/15 at 1:07 pm to colorchangintiger
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In cells lining the mice's nasal passages, genes that produce the virus-fighting protein interferon were less active at 33C than at 37C, Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki and her colleagues reported.
Do you people read the article, or just proud that you can convert from C to F?
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