What do you disagree with the internet/ rest of the world on? Mine is Going to bed with wet hair

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Every time I've ever gone to bed without drying my hair properly (or walked around with wet hair for longer than about 20 minutes) I have had a bad cold or sore throat the next day!
When I looked it up online, everything pretty much said no, it won't make you have a cold, but might cause a stiff neck. I know the answer is, just dry your hair properly, but I can't always- it's really thick and takes SOOOO LONG! It can't be a coincidence- wet hair gives me a cold!
So anyway, anyone want to tell me what they disagree with the internet about?

Yes I agree. Actually had a conversation about last Saturday when most of my friends got out their reading glasses to look at the menu. Hold off from getting glasses as long as you can I say.

I had pregnancy systems before you are meant to,I knew I was pregnant. I also had very early symptoms with 2nd dc.

T’internet will insist that Berocca is useless snake oil, but I swear it keeps me far healthier than others I know - and if I feel a cold threatening, I double dose myself for a few days and it almost always goes away.

Even if this is a placebo effect, I don’t care if I feel well. 🤷‍♀️

With you on the Berocca, in fact I’ve felt a bit tired lately so will double dose tomorrow.

I've never had a problem sleeping or going out with wet hair but you are not alone - all of Italy firmly believes in the perils of the "hit of air"

From Our Own Correspondent - Hit of Air

This was a really interesting read, thank you!

Oh God, I would never go to bed or outside in the cold with wet hair. I get so shocked when I see people with wet hair in the cold 😆

I wonder if on the days you don't bother to dry your hair you're already beginning to feel ill, even if you don't realise it? So you feel too tired to bother drying your hair, and hey presto you wake in the morning with cold symptoms. It may be the cold that made you too tired to dry your hair rather than the wet hair causing a cold?

I never dry my hair! Often go to bed with it damp too and I've never once got 'chill'.

Sometimes when I wash hair with n morning will walk dog in icy temp with hair still wet, prob about an hour after. Still no chill!

The only way to do a jigsaw is to start with the straight edges and corners.

Why not start with a section of the picture?

Straight-edgers get so offended if you start in a different way!

Well I'm about to wash my hair and go out with it wet, will report back later. If it gave me colds I'd have one permanently as I do it all the time. I've only had it freeze solid once, that was funny.

Not sure what 2ww stands for but I realised I was pregnant by symptoms at about 5 weeks. Wasn't tracking cycles obsessively and hadn't realised I was late.

No it doesn't give me a cold. It does make my hair a mess though. I have really long straight hair but it goes all crazy if I go to bed with it wet or even damp.

Do u not surely at least give a 5min dry just to get the wetness out? I would never go to bed now with wet hair anymore.

I'm the opposite, mine is curly/wavy and if I go anywhere near it with a hairdryer it ends up a frizzy mess. Whereas if I leave it completely untouched it dries into beautifully defined curls. I use a microfibre turban for 5 mins so its not dripping wet.

You do have to have had contact with a virus to get a cold though. Being cold/having wet hair can't spontaneously cause you to become infected with a cold virus.

There is some evidence that some rhinoviruses replicate better in lower temperatures though. So I guess if you have already come contact with a virus, and then for whatever reason your body temp is slightly lowered, it may replicate faster causing symptoms to develop sooner or be more severe.

I swear by Berrocca too! Just don't take it at night, I did this once and couldn't sleep a wink - buzzing and sweating!

Does going to bed with wet hair not make your pillow all damp and horrible?

Curly haired person here.

Always go to bed with wet hair, blow drying gives me the frizz big time! I've had colds, but these are caused by viruses and not wet hair.

On the cold giving you a cold thing, scientists have actually now proven how and why that happens:

www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01423-3/fulltext

www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2022/12/06/can-you-catch-a-cold-from-being-cold-scientists-say-yes-and-it-turns-out-the-answer-was-right-under-our-noses/

So not a myth at all.

I’ve worked in a large office in which two seats were much colder due to drafts/far from heat sources. It was well known that people who sat in those got sick more often.

No it isn't.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/common-cold/

How stupid are people? Persistant cold/damp can make you more suceptible to colds but it does not cause a cold
A cold is caused by a virus

No. I don't go to bed with it sopping wet, it will have had 10 mins in a tight microfibre turban first. Any slight dampness in the pillow will dry out the next day.

Yes, but you still need to be faced with the virus. The cold temp itself doesn't spontaneously give you a cold, you still need the virus/bacteria to be present.

Wow, didn't realise so many curly- haired people dry their hair naturally. I'm always exposed to viruses as I work with kids. Also have a (slightly) compromised immune system, so maybe adding in cold, wet hair is just asking for trouble. Thanks for all your replies.

That you need to exercise to loose weight