Why do people say it’s easier to get sick in the cold, or to put on a jacket to avoid catching a cold? Is this true?

Question

Why do people say it’s easier to get sick in the cold, or to put on a jacket to avoid catching a cold? Is this true?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Old wives tale, there’s men who cut holes in the ice and go for a swim with no clothes excepts maybe underwear on. They don’t catch colds afterwards either.

Watch a [woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDmZlVCCzc) do it

You catch colds like any other virus, it attacks you when your immune system is weakened.

Now if your question is: does the cold lower your immune system, the answer would be yes.