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I was raised for the first three years of my life in a mountainous region. I have been put to sleep outside on the balcony every day. My mother told me that onc
by venomsnake 14y ago
I was raised for the first three years of my life in a mountainous region. I have been put to sleep outside on the balcony every day. My mother told me that once my grandmother visited she was panicked to find out I was MIA, to which Mother calmly replied "the snow has made a drift out of the stroller again". What is left from all that is the habit to sleep every night on wide open window (winters usually I am single ... may have some correlation) and the inability to catch cold or flu for more than a day. Getting out of the warm bed on -17 C in the room is unique and highly recommended experience.
So it is perfectly normal in lots of places in the world.
- spoiledtechie 14y agoSeriously?? -17C? Have you done it? Im totally tempted to try...
- venomsnake 14y agoYeah ... although for almost half an hour before that I tried my best to convince myself that my bladder will cope just fine with pressures more suitable for combustion engine. I couldn't so I had to get up.
- lostlogin 14y agoIs there a correlation between getting cold and catching a cold? I didn't think there was?
- DavidAdams 14y agoThe notion that getting cold causes illness is basically discredited, and in fact the reason that people get sick more during cold seasons is because they tend to stay indoors in closer contact with other people. That supports the nordic practice of having babies spend more time outside in fresh air even when it's cold.
- petercooper 14y agoWhile the cold doesn't cause illness, it seems to have the potential to reduce immune response which can then result in more illness than if one hadn't gotten cold. From Wikipedia's page on the common cold: While colds are caused by viruses and not cold temperatures, there is some controversy over the role of body cooling as a risk factor for the common cold; the majority of the evidence suggests that it may result in greater susceptibility to infection. It may have been coincidental but I fell ill with colds a day or two after both times I got caught out in the cold with inadequate clothing this winter so I had to look this up.
- ycombobreaker 14y agoIn addition to what DavidAdams said, indoor air is typically less humid when a heater is running. This can improve virus survivability. Spending time outside keeps your sinus moist.