A child's question: What is the relation of Coldness and Catching cold?

Italy
January 29, 2010 11:54am CST
Hi friends! Usually we think children are more curious. They ask many things that are very normal for us. Actually we also don't know the answer, but it became usual for us. I remember I had also my own questions some day in my childhood. The questions I never found a good answer for them till it became usual for me. Maybe some day in future my child will ask me one of them. I want to ask you one of those which raised for me when I was around 10. We know that cold is an illness caused by viruses. So why we are careful on the temperature and coldness not to catch a cold? Why when its cold we get sick or is it just a wrong believe?
1 response
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
30 Jan 10
I used to think that temperature had nothing to do with it. Getting cold does lower our body's defenses, as they are concentrated on keeping us warm, but the cold virus loves lower temperatures and thrives in cold weather. That was a surprise to me!