Going out with wet hair will make you sick. And if you pee over a jellyfish bite, the pain subsides. What is true and what is not?
Did your mother also tell you not to go out with wet hair or you would get sick? And what about that uncle who used to say on birthdays that if you swallow an apple seed, an apple tree would grow in your belly? These "facts" are also incorrect.
A little urine on your new jellyfish bite would help relieve the pain and itchiness. That makes no sense, says dermatologist Patrick Kemperman. The acid in the pee can even make the itching worse. You can read here what you can do best in case of a bite – which we should really call a sting.
You've been waiting for the bus for over half an hour, you were wearing thin tights and the wind was blowing quite a bit. The recipe for a bladder infection, right? Nope. A bladder infection is the result of a bacteria. One that lives in your gut. And every now and then 'going for a walk'. If it then ends up in your bladder, it causes a bladder infection in some people. One of the activities that can get the bacteria moving is sex. You can read more about this in this article.
Too bad. You still hear it from time to time, but it really isn't true. A person cannot have "extra heavy" bones. Overweight people simply carry more body fat. And that's where the weight on the scale comes from. What is a funny fact is that a baby initially has much more bones than an adult.
Whether you like it is another story. But wet hair in itself + the outside air, whether or not it is cold, does not make you sick. The flu and colds are caused by viruses, not by wet hair. Where the global misunderstanding may come from, is that viruses do like to settle in your nose in colder and wetter weather. So if you go outside with your hair wet, while it's bleak, you can just welcome that cold due to the favorable circumstances. Doesn't matter if your hair is wet.
Most likely, in the 1960s, Popi TV chief Julia Childs was the first to say this "rule" out loud. She baked a pancake live on TV, it fell, after which she put it back in the pan and joked that anything that has been on the floor for less than 5 seconds can still be eaten safely. Scientists have been wild about it ever since. And many (a lot of) parents of young children have followed the rule. Perhaps also because otherwise a lot of food would have to be thrown away… Anyway, whether your food has been on the floor for 5 seconds or only 0.5 seconds, it contains almost exactly the same number of bacteria. Incidentally, the type of floor can make a difference, for example, smooth floors such as laminate and tiles contain more bacteria than carpet. Who knew?!
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