The cold can really hurt your throat

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I don’t even know where to start... People believe that their seasonal cold with snot, cough and sore throat is literally related to the cooling of the head. This is usually not the case, but sometimes it is almost so.

The common cold is a viral disease that is more common in winter. But the cold itself does not cause illness.

Well, that is, if you really freeze your throat somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle, then you can get sick. But for this you need to be a Canadian soldier. Almost certainly you won't be.

In your case, everything will be easier. In winter, you will warm your nose with a dirty mitten, and so the virus will get inside your head. The cold is not to blame.

Well, I also constantly say that with a sore throat, ice cream does not harm, but on the contrary is useful. Also, many immediately begin to be indignant.

This is on the one hand. But there is another side to the coin. There are people with a hypersensitive throat who really have a sore throat from the cold.

Remember the story about ear pain in the cold? Roughly the same situation occurs in some people in the throat.

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That is, they go out into the cold, and their throats begin to hurt. In the warmth, everything passes quickly. This is not a virus. It's just pain. You don't have to do anything with it. Just don't breathe cold air.

The same thing happens when trying different remedies for sore throat. People do not get the cold virus. People are simply blown into the nose or throat with a continuous stream of air cooled to the desired temperature. This is how you achieve the appearance of a standard sore throat.

Moreover, there even some inflammatory substances appear in the throat. They can be washed and counted from there. That is, the victims of such experiments not only shout that they are in pain, but also quantitatively their pain can be measured.

It turns out that some people, if they try very hard, can make themselves a sore throat in the cold. But this is not a cold.

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