702 Being Cold Doesn't Make You Catch Cold
It's the catchphrase uttered every winter: 'Rug up or you'll catch cold!'
Sorry, mums around the world, but in actual fact, the colder temperature has very little to do with the likelihood of your catching a cold or flu, despite the fact autumn and winter are the seasons you're most likely to get sick.
Confusing, we know, but bear with us.
“It's interesting because the reality is, you get a cold because you get a cold virus, so it doesn't matter how cold you are,” says The Huffington Post. "Unless you contract that virus, you are not going to get a cold.”
We get a cold because we get in close contact with other people, either because someone coughs and you breathe the virus in, or they cough onto a surface and you touch that surface and then touch your nose or eye.
The best way to prevent a cold is to do simple hygiene things, like washing your hands, especially if you have been in contact with someone who has been coughing and sneezing on surfaces you may have touched.
So there! I'm sure you too wondered why they weren't sneezing all the time ...
