Cold weather
Cold weathers affect almost everyone around the globe, but it is much colder in the Caucasian countries than Arab countries because of the hemisphere. Bangladesh falls in the mediocre category and a large population is going to be affected this winter. Let’s look at the options for staying warm and healthy.
- During cold weather, you should not go outside with wet hair as there is a chance that a certain virus will cause you to catch cold. Some research has suggested being cold can make you more susceptible to catching the virus.
- You lose most of your body heat from your head is a long-standing favorite to get children to wear a hat. While wearing a hat is definitely a good idea to keep you warm, it’s not true that you lose more body heat from your head than anywhere else. When it’s freezing outside, what usually matters to you is how cold you end up. So the ideal is to keep the rest of your body and your head well covered.
- This one, along with ‘sitting on a cold surface will give you piles’ is a schoolyard favorite. In fact, there is no evidence anywhere that suggests sitting on warm or cold surfaces can give you piles. What can give you piles is being constipated regularly and straining when you go to the toilet. A German study actually found that people who had a warm bath at least once a week had a lower risk of developing piles, and cold can be used to soothe the condition.
- Hip flasks have been carried in the mountains since the 18th Century and mulled wine is still popular in ski resorts today as people come off the slopes and head into a bar to warm up. It’s true that if you have a drink when you’re cold you will feel warmer, as alcohol sends blood towards the surface of the skin, making you flush. However, the problem is that blood has moved away from the main parts of your body, so in fact your core temperature drops. There’s no risk of a slight drop in core temperature if you’re somewhere warm. However, if you’re staying out in the cold the effect of blood moving to the skin is not enough to keep you warm for long. Or if you drink a lot and then go back out into the cold, you could put yourself at risk, as alcohol can reduce the body’s natural shivering response and dampen your perception of cold. Figures from the US show that, in a decade, 10 percent of deaths due to hypothermia involved alcohol consumption.
Nighttime frosts are dangerous. There are freezing fog patches. Overall, it is best to use electronic heather and fire heather to avoid pneumonia and other life-threatening illnesses. It is best to wear gloves to avoid gangrene. Rhinovirus infections typically result in mild cold-like symptoms. However, rhinoviruses can also cause more severe illnesses, such as bronchitis and pneumonia, in people with weakened immune systems.
Rhinoviruses typically spread through:
- direct person-to-person contact
- the air as small droplets, or aerosols, which people then inhale
Once inhaled, the rhinovirus attaches itself to the cells inside the nasal passages. It then begins to replicate itself, spreading more virus particles throughout the upper respiratory tract.
Many people associate cold weather with the common cold. While the weather is not directly responsible for making people sick, the viruses that cause colds may spread more easily in lower temperatures, and exposure to cold and dry air may adversely impact the body’s immune system.
The important point to be noted is that people in Bangladesh stop drinking a lot of water during cold weather. They think that is causes irregular or frequent urinating and that water is only required for hot summers. This is not a fact and on average daily 8 glasses of water is needed to stay healthy during winter otherwise it may cause urine infection.
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