My science teacher says it’s relevant to our topic of energy
But I don’t see any relevancy.
Could somebody clarify why it’s important?
And why it’s relevant to energy?
Why is it important to sweat off a head cold?
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If the cold is caused by bacteria, many pathogenic bacteria cannot handle temperatures much beyond the normal human body temperature. A fever is the body’s response to an invasion and serves to fight some infections.
Simply being active and raising your internal temperature through physical activity is hard on many microbes. Being TOO active when you’re ill, of course may be bad, but being active may be beneficial.
Years ago, a study of endurance athletes who DID raise their internal body temperature a couple of degrees a few times a week showed that they had fewer infections and that the infections were of a shorter duration. This, however, could be due to many different factors, not just elevated body temperature.
On energy – The heat that causes the moisture in sweat to evaporate comes from your body. When your body gives up the energy to the liquid sweat molecules, your body’s temperature (and total energy) is reduced. Remember those old alcohol baths for fevered patients? Alcohol evaporates more readily and removes heat more rapidly.
Experiment. Put a drop of rubbing alcohol one one wrist and a drop of water on the other, making sure both liquids are at room temperature. Which wrist feels cooler? The alcohol one because heat in that region is being removed more rapidly due to the evaporation of the alcohol, the energy for which comes from your body.
It is an old wive’s tale that you need to sweat to eliminate a cold.