Is common cold caused by a bacteria or a virus? if you have been in cold weather?

The common cold is cause by the human rhinovirus and is transmitted from person to person via aerosol droplets or through direct contact with an infected persons bodily fluids. Being out in the cold will not give you a cold, however being out in the cold can weaken your immune system making you more susceptible to the virus.

Is common cold caused by a bacteria or a virus? if you have been in cold weather?
A common cold, meaning the flu?





The flu is a virus.
Reply:A cold is a virus, then you can have complications with a bacterial infection------of the sinus etc
Reply:The common cold is a virus and it is transmitted to you by another person 90% of the time. It is a highly contagious virus.





You need to do something really silly to catch a cold all by yourself. Either getting wet while it is cold or not protecting yourself from the cold.


Also walking in and out from a warm house to the cold outside can do it if you don't cover yourself when you go out.


Coming inside and sitting in front of an air conditionning, still sweating from having been in the heat outside will give you a cold everytime.


My guess would be that the common cold is a chemical reaction in your body when exposed to sudden extreme changes of temperature.





When I go and live in the bush...away from the city people, I never catch a cold. But if a friend with a cold visits me from the city...I will catch it...no worries. That just happened to me 3 weeks ago and I still have not fully recover.
Reply:a virus
Reply:Great question and there is some new informationabout how you get the common cold. The common cold starts out as a virus and often ends us as a bacterial infection.


What is new is a study done in Europe and they took identical groups of men and split them in half. One half of them has their feet soaked in ice cold water for 30 minutes and the other half did not have their feet soaked in ice cold water. The result are interesting. The men who had their feet soaked in ICE COLD WATER had a much higher infection rate of the common cold than the men who did not soak their feet. I don't recall the exact percentages but it was some thing like this: men whose feet were soaked in ICE COLD WATER had a rate of 39% and those who did not have the cold water treatment had a rate of 6%.





This was a small group of around 100 men put it points in the direction that to avoid a cold keep your body warm through out winter and you immune system will be able to protect your better against the common cold.
Reply:it's viral and there is nothing you can take to make it go away it will work its way out of your system in about nine days. till then there are ways of dealing. studies have shown that a cold draft will not give you a cold. it is a virus you got from someone else. if your immune system is strong then your body can fight it or make less potent.
Reply:a virus