Is it possible to 'catch a chill'?

Or my dd

It's well known that teachers are ill when they have time to be ill - ie as soon as the holidays begin. Just ask my DiL!

I am firmly convinced that how you are feeling emotionally/mentally interacts with your physical wellbeing, and can influence whether you catch a bug etc, At the risk of sounding like HRH!!!!

Whoo hoo

My DD spent a year in bologna so have sent her the report on chills. Very funny.
I personally found it terrifying to cross the roads in bologna. They just dived out into the traffic on very wide main roads. Scary!!
finally found the square brackets on my iPad after five months. Might have a face!

I must have Italian blood! Enjoyed reading that.

Jess, I heard the same correspondent on 'From Our Own Correspondent' (R4) today - very entertaining, about being a non-meat-eater in Italy.

Maybe kingcough was whooping cough - would make sense but dear old gran just thought it was a mega disease that you could get anywhere! It went with piles from resting your bum on radiators. 'Under there' was a tricky area for her.

It is isn't it anno lovely bit of writing and v entertaining

Jess

This is the brilliant BBC correspondent report on Italian attitudes to the "chill" aka cervicale.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082

Just caught up with this again... lots of interesting stuff and now I do believe the theory that feeling/getting cold can allow already present viruses to grab hold! The "common myths" discussed had me remembering how we used to think sitting on cold concrete (say like a step) would cause piles! People didn't euphemise in those days.

I knew there was a good reason for wearing bedsocks.

It's the getting chilled bit that matters. If they had sat their bums in the cold water it would have had the same effect. So long as it chilled the rest of them (and it probably would)

Sorry if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs.

I know that tissue in the nose is very similar to that in the penis, but in the feet?

Well, whadda ya know!

Actually, I could have told them that. Without the expense.

This is from the Common Cold Research website.

Folklore indicates that chilling such as getting your feet wet in winter and going out with wet hair may cause a common cold but until recently there has been no scientific research to support this idea. Recent research has demonstrated that chilling may cause the onset of common cold symptoms5. A study at the Common Cold Centre in Cardiff UK in 2005 took 90 students and chilled their feet in cold water for 20 minutes and showed that the chilled group had twice as many colds over the next 5 days as a control group of 90 students whose feet were not chilled. The authors propose that when colds are circulating in the community some persons carry the virus without symptoms and that chilling the feet causes a constriction of blood vessels in the nose and this inhibits the immune response and defences in the nose and allows the virus to replicate and cause cold symptoms. The chilled person believes they have caught a cold but in fact the virus was already present in the nose but not causing symptoms.

That is exactly what Dr Spock maintained in his book which I read avidly in 1968.

RINKY, you can only use the emoticons shown at the bottom of the page under the posting box - Gransnet doesn't have the facility to show imported smileys.

borstalgran I think kincough was an old name for whooping cough.

Grannyknot. Sorry. Six days later! NO socks either. Hate them. Rarely wear them even when forced to wear boots.
Hardly ever get colds or flu. Always have windows open when I can.
Staying in hotel in London this next weekend, will feel horribly claustrophobic for two nights as usually cant open windows and heating far too high. Am comfortable at about 18 degrees indoors. Last time in same hotel, could open window in room but heating was stuck on about 25 so just as well! Moved furniture round and spent the night close to window with nothing but a sheet on.

On a slightly different tack.... Can anyone tell me how to get smiley faces etc onto gransnet. I have an iPad and use emocons or whatever it's called to get silly things to send grandkids but when I have used them on g.net they don't come through.

My grandmother reckoned that everything, especially cold weather, gave you kingcough. It could occur anywhere, especially kidneys and chest. I finally asked her what it was - she had no idea!

...cause....[see that's how you type when your fingers are numb]

Wow; loads of them...I could wear a different pair each day and even lace ones on special occasions . Fish packing? Would it worry you if I said I worked for the NHS ? Caues it worries me ...

Lots on here as well!

fingerless gloves