Cold time: the one Who freezes, is sick faster

In cold temperatures, it captures faster with a cold.

“The whole metabolism is slower,” explains Anke Richter Scheer, doctor in Bad Oeynhausen. “As a result, it provides more attack surface for the virus. Also the immune system in the cold is worse.”

Warm the currency is not wear, therefore, only to prevent unpleasant Freeze.

The whole body should be wrapped up warm. Most of the body heat is, however, given the relatively large area of the head.

“It is precisely those who have less hair, should put on a hat,” advises judge Scheer.

Sensitive the neck is, Through him, the cold air is inhaled. “On the neck is hardly fat, is he free then he will be cold fast.”

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The best clothes that not only warms, but at the same time is permeable – for example, cotton. So there is no heat congestion.

The clothes is wet by extreme sweating, increases in the cold again, the risk of infection.

Your well-being is generally a good guideline: if you sweat a lot, tired, or a red head, gets, is probably more likely to be attracted thick.

Who freezes and shivers, should be plating something. “The important organs need to be perfused,” says the doctor.

“Everything else goes on the back burner. Therefore, for example, the hands and feet are cold.”

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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