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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How the heck do you keep hat and mittens on a toddler?!!  [/quote]

Apparently American parents are the only ones who could not. Another European here. This is an American thing. [/quote]
And then they're bewildered why their kid is sick most of the time.[/quote]

Despite what you and my MIL believe, being cold does not mean that you catch a cold. [/quote]

Harvard and Yale think like the PP's MIL, but I bet you went to med school and know better

"infectious organisms, like flu viruses, thriving in colder temperatures, but there's also evidence that exposure to cold temperatures suppresses the immune system, so the opportunities for infection increase."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/out-in-the-cold

http://blog.delimmune.com/2016/12/does-cold-weather-weaken-immune-system/[/quote]

:roll:

Per the Harvard article: "Their hypothesis: cold air rushing into the nasal passages makes infections more probable by diminishing the local immune response there."

I fail to see how a hat would stop cold air from rushing into the nasal passages. [/quote]

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