To think that if you let your kids....

[LemonSherbetFancies]

Swim/play in the river, you should not be surprised if they come down with a flu/cold the next day?

I wonder if there is some other kind of virus going around? One with a sore throat and fever as the main symptoms, which might have an incubation period of, say, 10-14 days which he might have picked up before he went swimming?!

@HappyHappyHippocampus

Nope can’t be true *@SchrodingersImmigrant*. It has to be WAY more likely to catch a vanishingly rare weils than COVID or all the other snotty, sore throat, fever bugs that kids sneeze in to eachothers eyeballs on a daily basis.

Literally no one has said that 🙄

Weil's disease yes... flu , no.

@HappyHappyHippocampus

Oh please *@Veterinari* do get a grip dear. I think the OP when to find hers. Perhaps you could join her.

Genuine question - why are you on this thread? What exactly are you contributing apart from incoherency and insults ?

@DroopyClematis

Weil's disease yes... flu , no.

Careful Droopy

You'll be attacked in a second for daring to suggest that rather obvious possibility

No, that’s literally all I’m here for obviously and I’m good with that.

I caught one from the swimming baths last week. That is way more likely. I wish I'd swum in a river.

Did I say it wasn’t OPs place to be warning the neighbour of anything like you suggested? - yes.

Did I say weils disease doesn’t exist? - no.

@HappyHappyHippocampus

Did I say it wasn’t OPs place to be warning the neighbour of anything like you suggested? - yes.

Did I say weils disease doesn’t exist? - no.

Not really up to you to dictate what the OP does though is it? You definitely seem to be misunderstanding your role in the world....

Or you could have a little crack at your own advice there. Might help with the hyperbole and self importance

@HappyHappyHippocampus

Or you could have a little crack at your own advice there. Might help with the hyperbole and self importance

So yes. Just incoherence and insults

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3LJG8Syt2V79D8cjZrPpL5l/can-you-catch-a-cold-from-getting-cold

Surprised only a couple of people on the thread knew there is definitely a link between being cold and catching a cold - hence why more people have colds in winter.

I don't think I've ever caught a cold from the cold, but then I do have a very robust immune system

Yanbu. If they got a cold the day after playing in a river it would be our coincidence. You can’t catch colds from rivers.

@ItWorriesMeThisKindofThing

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3LJG8Syt2V79D8cjZrPpL5l/can-you-catch-a-cold-from-getting-cold

Surprised only a couple of people on the thread knew there is definitely a link between being cold and catching a cold - hence why more people have colds in winter.

Yes, I mentioned it earlier in the thread too. There is often a grain of truth in some old wives tales. Evidence does seem to suggest that getting cold can weaken the immune system's defence to infection. The boy in the OP has obviously come into contact with a virus at some point and playing in a cold river for a prolonged time could have made him slightly more susceptible to developing the virus himself.

A fever and sore throat is not a cold or flu 🤔 Yes he could have picked a bug up or something from a river, he could be unwell because he got cold, I know in theory getting cold isn’t supposed to make people sick but when I get really cold I run a fever.

My DM always assumed cold water/weather is the cause for all respiratory ailments despite my constant reminders that this is not the case. Infuriating.

Mmmmm. I went swimming in a river in November at midnight in my early 20s and I think all of us (5?) complained of river flu for a week after. Wasn’t the most sensible of evenings.

@WorraLiberty

Perhaps he was just 'angling' for a day off school?

That takes the flu theory off the hook.

All sounds a bit fishy to me...

Just here to vouch I am still alive despite leaving the house daily for decades with wet hair...

You can get germs but flu and colds ? Nope

After nearly 18 months of viruses being explained day in day out and people still don't get it.

😂😂😂