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RE: Popular Misconceptions About The Common Cold!
Re cold - there is very little research done to prove or disprove that there is a relationship between getting cold (as in freezing) and getting the cold (as in getting ill); I did some meta-research on this some years ago and all I could find was two studies done, with opposite conclusions.
The story is told by countless of grandmas and grandpas, in different variants, in countless of different cultures. A false myth can easily survive in one culture - but it's so widespread that I find it hard to believe there isn't a speck of truth to it. It seems plausible that the immune system works better when one is having a normal body temperature.
Thanks for your feedback, very true! I would guess that most people still believe you can catch a cold from being cold, it's such a common thing
I had this thing happening to me in St.Petersburg yesterday; it was a relatively warm day, maybe +3C. Some of us (including me) has indeed has caught the cold those days, so despite the warm weather we were dressed for quite much colder weather. We had just been eating in a café, we were out on the street, but still not fully dressed, I had my jacked and my daughters jacket over my shoulders. My 3 yrs old daughter had a thick woolen sweater, and a water/wind-tight high trouser w/ braces covering the chest and back, and she had a hat as well, so she was more than adequately dressed for the weather. Guess what happened ... some lady came out of nowhere, cursing on me in Russian for not dressing my daughter well enough, and helped her get the jacket on! She would certainly get ill without the jacket, she meant!