Yesterday night I caught a cold and I don’t know how. It wasn’t very cold, I wasn’t wet, I didn’t get outside, and I was very covered. The only inusual thing that happened is that I had a… difficult conversation with my gf and I cried quite a lot, could that somehow got me sick?
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You don’t get a cold from crying, but when you cry it isn’t uncommon to get a blocked/stuffy/snotty nose. Is that what you got or something else?
Colds are caused by a virus, not from being cold, not from being wet, and certainly not from crying
You were probably infected earlier. The common cold generally takes 1-3 days to incubate, so if your symptoms started last night, you could have been infected as early as last Thursday. Crying most likely had nothing to do with it; if anything, the emotional stress might have stressed your body enough to let the cold viruses that were already there get more of a foothold.
You can’t be serious.
You can’t get a cold from crying, BUT being stressed and upset can lower your immunity, making you more susceptible to a virus.
No, you cant get a cold from crying. Nor can you get a cold from being physically cold or wet. The common cold is caused by a virus. You catch the common cold from being exposed to that virus. Additionally, there is a delay from when you are exposed to a virus to when you actually begin exhibiting symptoms. This delay is called the incubation period. For the common cold, the incubation period is generally between 1 and 3 days. So, you might have been exposed to the common cold virus three days ago and you are only exhibiting symptoms today.
That all being said, a number of things may mimic common cold symptoms but not actually be a cold. For example, crying can cause your nose to run and stress can give you a headache.
You can have congestion and inflammation from crying a lot, it doesn’t mean you are sick. You can even have sore muscles if you were crying really hard or give yourselfa headache. It can be physically draining.
You might feel sick or get a runny nose from being really cold, but also doesn’t make you sick. As everyone else is telling you, a cold is a virus. It is more commonly spread in cold temperatures. I don’t know if that has something to do with the lower air temperature or lower body temperatures, but it’s still the virus. Stress can also make the body more susceptible to illness. Don’t ask me why, I’m not a doctor.