For instance, I've discovered that the Influenza virus - AKA the "Common Cold" - is capable of surviving for up to 30 days at 0 degrees Metric System (that's as low as 32 degrees on the Thermometer Scale)! And that's not all: at lower temperatures, it can survive indefinitely. Meaning, "who knows how long?"
I believe that this may hold the key to why the Common Cold tends to hit hardest during the winter months. It makes sense: since the bug can keep its freshness so much longer when the weather is cold, and because the weather is coldest during the winter, we see that those cold months just set the proverbial stage for an infection fiesta - replete with sneezing, coughing, runny noses and all the attendant misery that we associate with Mr. Common Cold.
Have you ever been out drinking, where you knew when you went out that you were coming down with something? Maybe you already had that nasty tickle in the back of your throat, a little phlegmy activity going on, or your eyes started burning a little like they do - but you just went out drinking anyway? And then you're having those cold beers, and it's not really helping the situation but at least you're getting drunk? I kind of like that feeling! Your head is starting to get a little hot and light, but you keep downing those beers. In those cases, I think that the drink can help you reach a different appreciation of the beginning stages of a real knock-down drag-out cold.
Another thing to consider: is "feed a cold, starve a fever" a myth? It could well be. With so many reversals these days in the field of medicine, the name of the game is: "adapt or change." You can't afford to rest on a stack of old wives' tales, not with your health at stake. I'd look into that if I were you.
Note: This article has not been ratified by the Federal Disease Board, and may be riddled with inaccuracies.
I believe that this may hold the key to why the Common Cold tends to hit hardest during the winter months. It makes sense: since the bug can keep its freshness so much longer when the weather is cold, and because the weather is coldest during the winter, we see that those cold months just set the proverbial stage for an infection fiesta - replete with sneezing, coughing, runny noses and all the attendant misery that we associate with Mr. Common Cold.
Have you ever been out drinking, where you knew when you went out that you were coming down with something? Maybe you already had that nasty tickle in the back of your throat, a little phlegmy activity going on, or your eyes started burning a little like they do - but you just went out drinking anyway? And then you're having those cold beers, and it's not really helping the situation but at least you're getting drunk? I kind of like that feeling! Your head is starting to get a little hot and light, but you keep downing those beers. In those cases, I think that the drink can help you reach a different appreciation of the beginning stages of a real knock-down drag-out cold.
Another thing to consider: is "feed a cold, starve a fever" a myth? It could well be. With so many reversals these days in the field of medicine, the name of the game is: "adapt or change." You can't afford to rest on a stack of old wives' tales, not with your health at stake. I'd look into that if I were you.
Note: This article has not been ratified by the Federal Disease Board, and may be riddled with inaccuracies.
Comments
I blame that person.
Part of the confusion for me was that this year, I got a cold, and then a flu right in the middle of it! Suddenly the symptoms all changed! But the flu burned itself out quickly, and then I went back to having just the cold.
Now I'm fine, apart from that dry, lingering cough that will go away in a few weeks.