I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.

Ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people.

I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?

Use people who get runny noses in cold air

Also use people who regularly get colds each year.

Look at people who don’t easily get runny noses in cold air.

Create a study into people who wear face / nose marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures of around 20 degrees.

Maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments.

The face / nose masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.

That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the more likely of a runny nose.

It would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees.

Start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees using cold air.

Some how the body reacts to cold air by creating a runny nose, why?

This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.

The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria / viruses build up at certain temperatures.

Runny noses would give bacteria/ viruses germs a medium to easily move around more within the body.

Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.

Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.

It would be interesting to see bacteria/ viruses germs build up at certain temperatures.

is this a way the brain is trying to find out and sample what’s in the build up ?

https://newatlas.com/taste-bud-cells-lungs-flu/59132/

Tau.Neutrino said:

I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.

Ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people.

I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?

Use people who get runny noses in cold air

Also use people who regularly get colds each year.

Look at people who don’t easily get runny noses in cold air.

Create a study into people who wear face / nose marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures of around 20 degrees.

Maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments.

The face / nose masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.

That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the more likely of a runny nose.

It would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees.

Start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees using cold air.

Some how the body reacts to cold air by creating a runny nose, why?

This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.

The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria / viruses build up at certain temperatures.

Runny noses would give bacteria/ viruses germs a medium to easily move around more within the body.

Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.

Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.

It would be interesting to see bacteria/ viruses germs build up at certain temperatures.

>>>Start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees using cold air.

Maybe look at all the natural temperature range – 50 to + 50 for virii activity

and see which temperatures start the runny nose and which temperatures stop it

>I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?

japanese (by memory) did some research maybe decade or more ago involving breathing warm air, it may have been warm dry air.

I guess it might reduce viral replication, dunno.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.

Ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people.

I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?

Use people who get runny noses in cold air

Also use people who regularly get colds each year.

Look at people who don’t easily get runny noses in cold air.

Create a study into people who wear face / nose marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures of around 20 degrees.

Maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments.

The face / nose masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.

That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the more likely of a runny nose.

It would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees.

Start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees using cold air.

Some how the body reacts to cold air by creating a runny nose, why?

This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.

The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria / viruses build up at certain temperatures.

Runny noses would give bacteria/ viruses germs a medium to easily move around more within the body.

Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.

Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.

It would be interesting to see bacteria/ viruses germs build up at certain temperatures.

Too much for me to cover at once.

But one key is evaporation. Viruses discharged into the air are discharges inside water droplets. Evaporation kills the viruses is it happens fast enough. Cold air has less evaporation, but so does hot humid air. So hot dry air helps, but not so dry that it irritates the nose and throat.

Face masks are common enough in places like Japan. Here, they need to become fashion statements, like this.

> I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose. Also use people who regularly get colds each year.

One way to look at this is to use country by country and season by season variation in coughs and colds.

Correlate graphs like this against temperatures experience in each country.

Runny nose is referred to medically as Rhinorrhea. This differs from Rhinitis which refers to the inflammation of nasal tissues, although rhinitis creates rhinorrhea.

“Rhinorrhea is especially common during winter months and certain low temperature seasons. Cold-induced rhinorrhea occurs due to a combination of thermodynamics and the body’s natural reactions to cold weather stimuli. One of the purposes of nasal mucus is to warm inhaled air to body temperature as it enters the body. In order for this to happen, the nasal cavities must be constantly coated with liquid mucus. During cold, dry seasons, the mucus lining nasal passages tends to dry out, meaning that mucous membranes must work harder, producing more mucus to keep the cavity lined. As a result, the nasal cavity can fill up with mucus. At the same time, when air is exhaled, water vapor in breath condenses as the warm air meets the colder outside temperature near the nostrils. This causes an excess amount of water to build up inside nasal cavities. In these cases, the excess fluid usually spills out externally through the nostrils.”

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/1859038

“Cold-induced rhinorrhea (CIR) is a commonly experienced discomfort not previously addressed in the medical literature. In a 2-part study, we assessed the prevalence and described the characteristics of CIR and evaluated the efficacy of an anticholinergic nasal spray in its treatment. In Part 1, 90 general medical patients at a ski resort clinic were asked to describe their symptoms associated with cold exposure. Ninety-six percent reported some degree of CIR; 48% reported moderate to severe CIR. Fifty percent had some degree of nasal congestion and 33% reported sneezing. Allergic and nonallergic patients described similar degrees of rhinorrhea. In Part 2, 14 ski patrollers were given atropine sulfate in saline (AS/S) nasal spray before cold exposure in double-blinded placebo controlled crossover fashion. Ninety-two percent noted improvement of CIR with AS/S and 8% experienced no change.”

“Nasal obstruction and rhinorrhea reflect nonspecific nasal hyper-reactivity as evaluated by cold dry air provocation”
YH Kim, TY Jang – Acta oto-laryngologica, 2012
Conclusion: Nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, and the amount of rhinorrhea that confidently
reflect the parasympathetic stimulation can be used to more precisely predict nonspecific
nasal hyper-reactivity (NHR).

“Comparison of natural and induced cold models for the study of nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, and secretion”
DK Riker, TJ Witek, RB Turner – Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 1996

> I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?

Air conditioning in cold countries helps.

I was looking for the flutracking thread, but this will do.

https://theconversation.com/whens-the-best-time-to-get-your-flu-shot-114978

Spoiler: mid May-early June.