To be frustrated with the reasoning wet hair catches a cold?!

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Is it just me?? Isn't it so historic that it shouldn't be a thing nowadays? I've heard so many people say it recently and if I roll my eyes any more I'll go blind!!
UABU - there is scientific evidence for this (need proof)
UANBU - everyone needs to get real and stop being snowflakes making excuses for a sniffle

Colds are caught from a virus, not wet hair.

Though once you're sick it's probably a good idea to dry your hair quickly and keep warm, if only for comfort.

I find if I go out with wet hair it gets very dirty very quickly. Wonder why?

I thought that it is as having wet hair in the cpld owers your body temperature slightly and some respiratory viruses multiply faster just below body temperature

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8209954/

Uabu it depends on the person probably. But having thyroid issues if i get cold i do get more ill.
Probably your average person wet hair may not affect their body temp.
I never go to sleep woth wet hair overnight. Nor do i wash it and go out in the cold (im cold enough as it is)

Dd1 spent 6 months studying in St Petersburg, partly during their winter. She could rarely be bothered to dry her hair before going out, so once or twice it actually froze on her head. Locals were appalled and forecast an imminent death, but she was never any the worse. Though to be entirely fair, she hardly ever catches colds - or anything else - touch wood - anyway.

Yes this annoys me too and I've had a few disagreements about this with people in my life.

It's caused by a virus which doesn't just spawn out of no where after going outside with wet hair or whatever flavour of myth there is. You need to catch the virus to get a cold.

However I think there is some science behind being physically cold can lower the immune system response. So I guess there's an argument that maybe if you were already brewing a cold and did this then it's more likely to turn into a full blown one.

That's definitely not what people are on about when they are claiming you spawn a virus from no where when your hair is wet for too long though.

Well if someone thinks that they're wrong.
Colds are from particles from infected people through breathing, coughing, touching things etc. just tell them that I guess? And worrying if they don't know to sanitise and do proper hygiene to stop the spread.
I've not heard anyone saying that since an elderly person in the 80s!

It’s just a very old expression! Any remotely educated person would just smile and ignore.

That's definitely not what people are on about when they are claiming you spawn a virus from no where when your hair is wet for too long though.
How do you know? I would say the association between becoming chilled and succumbing to a virus has been observed and recognised by our forefathers for millenia.

The cold affects the effectiveness of the cillia (sp?) and mucous in your nose, which will make viruses take hold more easily.

It is an old wive's tale.

I’ve had a nurse tell me this. Bonkers and illogical

You can harbor a virus and not have any symptoms until you get really cold and then it takes hold and you get sick.

Colds are viruses, however I always thought it was more to do with the lowering of immune system response to viruses due to the cold.

Yeah, it's not that it "gives" you a cold. More than our immune systems are busily fighting things off all the time, and doing something that suppresses that is going to make it more likely that the virus is not fought off as effectively and we become symptomatic.

Well let's go with this....leaving wet hair can lower your core temp, this causes stress on the body, this weakens the immune system so therefore more at risk of a virus. However this is lots of ifs but and maybes.
I guess wet hair can cause a chill for sure, lowers your core temp which in itself is un pleasant but for making you develop a cold can't see it much myself.

Try having a cold and then going out into the cold and not being able to warm yourself quickly.
When I'm sickly I need to protect my temperature, have warm soup and rest etc. I become so much sicker when I can't regulate my temperature.

A light cold can take hold and become deathly.

I imagine in the olden days, when heat sources were hard to maintain, going out in the cold weather could have been dangerous.

I get ill with cold symptoms every time I get wet and cold. Every shower, getting caught in light drizzle, leaving my hair wet. It makes me really ill.

I guess my body didn't get the memo.

Having wet hair in cold weather will make you more vulnerable to any opportunistic virus because it weakens the immune system.

Not everyone who comes into contact with viruses or bacteria will succumb to illness - not even covid. The immune system is a complex thing, and can be affected by lots of factors - even mood. Getting a cold head, which would affect your nasal membranes at the very least, could well contribute the difference between catching a cold and being asymptomatic.

It's easy to google this. But people somehow insist on believing that it's only the virus that matters.

I thought it wasn't the wet hair itself. It lowers your body temperature a little so that any lurking viruses might take hold.

i wouldnt want to go out with wet hair
be uncomfortable
and may lower your resistance
wear a hat and you warm your body

Doctor here. There is a scientific reason. Lowering the body temp / being a bit hypothermic lowers the body’s immune response and makes an individual more suspectible to viruses.

You are unreasonable for calling people snowflakes for getting ill.

what about those people who cannot heat their houses and get pneumonia