Why is it when the cold weather sets in we all get ill with coughs, colds, flus and bugs when the rest of the year we’re pretty much well?
Im hardly ever ill yet in the last month ive had a cold that became the flu which turned into a chest infection which became bad bronchitas just as that was going i got gastric enteritas and im still ill now!
Why though when the rest of the year im fine is it the beggining of winter that the bugs come out?
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dan_speaks - July 5th, 2009
It's because people tend to stay in more and so have more contact with each other – that lunchtime stroll in the park from work doesn't seem so appealing in the cold.
Also I would imagine our bodies are a little distracted trying to keep us warm, so energy goes from the immune system in to the boilers.
jeve - July 5th, 2009
Plus, as well as the above, the weather is changeable at first and people tend to wear the wrong clothes until they get the hang of the cold weather.
Qojak - July 5th, 2009
I recall a chemist friend of mine in the Highland capital of Inverness (Miss Ida Grant) tell me long ago, that bacteria was kept alive on cold, wintry streets and pavements while wet weather had the opposite effect and the bugs were washed – literally – down the drain. Sounds plausible to me.