Hello,
I am wondering if someone know's about this condition if its possible can occur as it happen to a relative of mine.
My mother always says to me never to going outside after a shower instantley as this is very dangerous?? My relative died as he twisted his neck due to the cold wind I beilve.
Is my mother just being skeptical or is there any truth in the matter? She says you should wait for a while until your body temprature goes to normal before going out and also to add when coming back from outside when your freezing going for a hot shower when your body is cold is that harmful?
Thanks.
RE: Going Out After a Shower?
" Is my mother just being skeptical or is there any truth in the matter?"
No, there is no truth in it whatsoever. If it were then there would be a queue of ambulances outside every gym. Gym patrons (nearly all of them) shower then leave immediately.
N
RE: Going Out After a Shower?
I am looking forward to seeing any replies to this one 
My grandmother used to come up with some wonderful 'advice'. When my mother was ill for some months, I had to live with my Gran, and was sent to school each morning in a liberty bodice under a vest, school shirt, woolly jumper and coat(June 1959(!!!!) and I was 5). She told me that if I removed the bodice I would catch my death of cold.No chance, but I certainly poached! At that timeI had nearly waist length hair - no hairdryers in those days - and after the Friday night hairwash I had to sit on the floor in front of the fire, rubbing my hair with towels until it was almost dry (and full of knots!!) - it was then painfully brushed andbraided to go to bed! I was not allowed into the garden during this process!
I think there may have been something more fundamentally wrong with your relative than a dose of a colddraft!
If going out after a shower were harmful, I think more footballers would be insisting on luxury changing rooms to lounge about in.......... although, I think they probably have those already!
RE: Going Out After a Shower?
i dont think taking a shower and then going outside can harm you if you have the right protection to go outside in the first place (ie - wearing a hat when your hair is wet)
as far as taking a hot shower after being out in the cold, i cant do it, i have to start off almost cold...my skin aches if i automatically do hot...
now for crazy stories (i chalk this up to urban legand - even though my hubby insists its true) my hubby had a neighbor (girl) who one day went out with a wet head without any protection, cuaght pnemonia and died within weeks.
i could see it if it were seriously cold (like frost bite cold)....
Ada
RE: Going Out After a Shower?
Hi,
This reminds me about the many times I have been told to wear a coat,some years ago....... or I would catch a cold/flu. Now knowing that you literally do that...CATCH a cold/flu, I know better. Ok, I suppose if you are a bit below par, going outside on a freezing day with little on......imagination please here....you will tend to feel even worse, but at the end of the day, colds and flu are viruses and passed from person to person, same as pneumonia.
BTW I never have time to reclimatise myself after a shower or bath, nor as far as I know, do my kids or hubby.......funny how these stories start...........have you ever pulled a face in the wind.....it'll stay like it you know!!!
Crabapple x