Infections are not caused by lack of socks!?

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MIL staying with us for the holidays and DS1 has developed a chest infection (he is 4).

Dr diagnosed him and put him on antibiotics.

MIL is adamant this is because DS1 walks around with no socks on.

My understanding is bacteria don't really care if you have socks on or not?!

The house is warm and he doesn't want socks on...

Aibu to leave him without his socks?

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Not according to my late lovely MIL.
The very idea that DH actually had an arse would bring on an attack of the vapours

i thought it was haemorrhoids from sitting on a warm radiator...

i am a doctor ..i know this stuff...stay away from the radiators kids

Omg my mother in law says stuff like this cos I walk round outside with no shoes or socks on. I just tell her you catch a cold from germs not from bare feet.

Ds2 (3 years old) has a current obsession with fetching my (fake) uhh style boots and putting them on my feet if I sit with my feet up

Clearly he knows something I don't

Did anyone ever rub garlic onto a child's feet? Has it ever done anything except make their socks smelly? Is there any way to convince people who believe in it that this does not work?

No, that's to stop vampires from licking your feet in case you're ticklish.

Sitting on a cold doorstep gives you piles, or so my mother would insist.
YANBU, I never wear socks indoors and haven't had a plethora of chest infections, or indeed any.

MIL told me that DS got a sickness bug (which had been through half the class) because he had fallen off his bike the previous weekend and it was a 'reaction' to that. What a load of utter bollocks.

i thought it was haemorrhoids from sitting on a warm radiator...

i am a doctor ..i know this stuff...stay away from the radiators kids

thanks Doc, knew I was right

She is probably thinking about this

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2918661/Chilly-feet-increase-risk-catching-colds-flu-leading-expert-warns.html

Being cold weakens your body making you more likely to come down with a cold if the virus is around. Wearing no socks has no link to a cold virus. Yanbu

I had to see a podiatrist as a child as I had odd toes! I remember clearly them saying, the healthiest thing for feet is to be barefoot as much as possible.

A school teacher once told me that if a pregnant woman stands on toe or finger nail clippings, they’ll miscarry. I used to bite my nails and was terrified I’d drop a tiny bit of nail and kill an unborn baby. That teacher was weird.

I was forever getting a row from my dad for not wearing slippers or indeed socks in the house but i much prefer bare feet i always have. My ds who is 3 is the same he sheds his shoes and socks as soon as hes in the door

For God's sake don't you know it's the first thing the NHS prescribes

You joke but when my DS was a toddler he got recurrent ear infections (eventually was put on prophylactic antibiotics against them) and I took him to the GP who told me he didn't need antibiotics, all he needed was warm socks and porridge for breakfast. He rolled up his trouser leg to show me his long thermal socks too.
Same Gp also tried to prescribe me a homeopathic remedy for mastitis, I refused to see him after that.

My mother used to tell me I’d wake up paralysed if I went to bed with wet hair (used to leave it in a damp braid as a teen). She swore she knew someone this happened to.

She’d be all about the lack of socks causing infections if she’d thought of it.

I still can't go out after a bath/washing my hair. I have to do it with plenty of time inbetween.

Did anyone ever rub garlic onto a child's feet? Has it ever done anything except make their socks smelly? Is there any way to convince people who believe in it that this does not work?

No, there's no reasonable way to convince people - because garlic is medicine.

Garlic can be absorbed by skin, anywhere on your body and it does support your immune system, as well as being an anti-inflammatory.

This study found that:

The benefits of garlic to health have been proclaimed for centuries; however, only recently have Allium sativum and its derivatives been proposed as promising candidates for maintaining the homeostasis of the immune system. The complex biochemistry of garlic makes it possible for variations in processing to yield different preparations with differences in final composition and compound proportion. In this review, we assess the most recent experimental results, which indicate that garlic appears to enhance the functioning of the immune system...

Finally, because immune dysfunction plays an important role in the development and progress of several diseases, we critically examined immunoregulation by garlic extracts and compounds isolated, which can contribute to the treatment and prevention of pathologies such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disorders, gastric ulcer, and even cancer. We concluded that A. sativum modulates cytokine secretion and that such modulation may provide a mechanism of action for many of their therapeutic effects.

Herbal remedies have been used for thousands of years. Many of them are very effective. Don't forget modern medicine is often based on synthesising plant remedies. Aspirin for example was synthesised from salicin, which can be found in Willow bark.

Isn't there a grain of truth in the whole 'going out without a coat/catching your death of cold' idea though?

Something about the mucous membranes in your nose becoming more active when you're out in the cold and making it easier for viruses to enter and take hold?

Also, your body uses up a lot of resources in maintaining body temperature if you're out in cold weather. It does kind of follow that if you go out without a scarf/coat/with wet hair, your body will have to devote more resources to keeping you warm leaving less for things like initial immune response to a virus invasion.

Everyone knows that - the same as when you go out with slightly damp hair and you’ll catch a chill

When DH first moved in, he once announced v seriously he thought he was getting a chill.

He was v upset when I burst out laughing and asked him if he was in a Dickens novel. Apparently chills were common occurences in MIL's house.

Thankfully marriages appears to have been a permanent cure.

HarrySnotter - MIL told me that DS got a sickness bug (which had been through half the class) because he had fallen off his bike the previous weekend and it was a 'reaction' to that.

Oh my word my mother (80) thinks every bloody ache pain cough or cold are all caused by the weather or the ''air pressure''. It's been hot but now it's cold. It's been damp. It's been cold but it's gone muggy. It's this wind. It's the fog. It's so changeable. Ah well - the air pressure's changed.
????? What???

It drives me up the bloody wall! Even if someone in the family chucking their last guts up it'll be all caused, in some weird round about way, by the weather according to her. Arrrggghhhh.

My dad was told not to eat the inside of a tomato because "It'll make ya go blind boy!" He still has very good vision aged 80.

I don't know if it's just a Portuguese thing, I've heard of not swimming after a meal and waiting an hour.

But DPs family used to recoil in horror if you ate dinner and then took a shower or bath within a couple of hours of eating.

Simply letting the water touch you, would kill you. Heart attack apparently.

And everyone knew "some old lady" in the village found dead in the bath or shower because of this.

I'm amazed I managed to get to 47 years old without this vital lifesaving knowledge.

Piles from cold steps.
Pneumonia from going to bed with wet hair.
Arthritis from not wearing gloves.
Going blind from reading too much.
Cold in kidneys from not tucking your vest in. (In summer, in Australia when wearing a cropped top.)
My dsis mil told her (amongst many batshit things) that dn should have her hair cut short till she was five to strengthen it. Oh and I needed put my cat down because she would sneak into her pram and suck her breath.

The 'catch a cold' thing pisses me off. The phrase is 'you'll catch cold'... NOT 'you'll catch A cold'.

It means you'll get a chill if you don't wrap up warm ffs.