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| 2005/11/14-15 [Health/Disease/General] UID:40585 Activity:moderate |
11/14 Chilly external temperatures CAN lead to a cold. (duh)
http://csua.org/u/e0h (forbes.com)
"Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales asked 180 volunteers to ...
soak their feet in ice-cold water or place them in an empty bowl for 20
minutes. Of the people who soaked their feet in cold water, 29 percent
developed cold symptoms over the next four to five days, compared to 9
percent of those in the control group, the investigators report in the
Nov. 14 issue of the journal Family Practice."
\_ I say "placebo effect".
\_ The next experiment will have the control group soaking their
feet in warm water. Ph.D. here I comE1!!!!1
\_ They should have told the cold water crowd that the water
had been treated with a new drug that protects against the
cold.
\_ Indeed.
\_ These people were probably pulling ice cubes out
of their freezer. They had to do it for 20 minutes
a day for 1 week.
\_ Yeah, actually I'm reading that they just did the
20-minute soak for one day, and it was all students.
Not reliable. Oops! I'm with placebo guy, unless
they actually did virus count tests on all 180 ppl,
which I doubt. -op
\_ yeah, "duh". cold symptoms != having a cold. duh.
\_ latent infection -> full-blown cold symptoms -> real cold |
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| csua.org/u/e0h -> www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/11/14/hscout529127.html Health Feeling a Chill Can Brrrr-ing on a Cold -- Robert Preidt, MONDAY, Nov. The British study offers truly chilling evidence in support of a theory t hat's long been considered mere folklore. Previous research had dismisse d any link between getting a chill and catching a cold. Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales asked 180 volunteers to take o ff their shoes and socks and either soak their feet in ice-cold water or place them in an empty bowl for 20 minutes. Of the people who soaked their feet in cold water, 29 percent developed c old symptoms over the next four to five days, compared to 9 percent of t hose in the control group, the investigators report in the Nov. Study co-author Professor Ron Eccles of Cardiff University's Common Cold Centre explained how getting a chill might increase the risk of developi ng a cold. "When colds are circulating in the community many people are mildly infec ted but show no symptoms. If they become chilled this causes a pronounce d constriction of the blood vessels in the nose and shuts off the warm b lood that supplies the white cells that fight infection," he said in a p repared statement. "The reduced defenses in the nose allow the virus to get stronger and com mon cold symptoms develop," Eccles added. "Although the chilled subject believes they have 'caught a cold,' what has in fact happened is that th e dormant infection has taken hold." Stock quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes for Nasdaq, at least 20 minu tes for NYSE/AMEX US indexes are delayed at least 15 minutes with the exception of Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 which are 2 minutes delayed. |
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