When I was a kid and i learnt about diseases in school it was that micorganisms of various kinds cause them. However since growing up I’d always been told by my parents to cover myself properly when being exposed to the cold e.g. wearing warm clothes after getting out of a hot shower in winter even though you might not immediately feel cold.
I asked my science teacher and he told me that when exposed to temperatures outside of what our body is normally used to, our body becomes more susceptible to being ill because our immune system is compromised. I think about this every now and then if I’m ever cold or sick because I didnt feel fully satisfied with his answer. I’ve also read in some places on the internet that this is just an old wives tale. Would someone give me a definitive answer to this query? ( I am currently on sick leave after being in a cold place for a while and I was thinking about this again)
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Why are Americans so gullible? You want scientific data for everything, but you yourself do not observe anything with the naked eye. I live in a country in the Caucasus. Nobody gets the flu here in the summer. There is only one person in a million who gets the flu. But in winter, even the strongest person gets the flu at least twice. This has nothing to do with being in contact with people or not. This is a fact that has been known for thousands of years. winter>cold>flu. Are you really looking for research scientific yield to understand this?
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