What other colds are there? I was under the assumption that the common cold is always viral.
Please read my posts before replying. You're literally asking me to tell you something I already told you in the first sentence of the post you just replied to.
Bacterial colds.
https://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/...-cold-virus-or-bacterium-how-tell-difference/
Now I'll grant there is a problem of language here. Both in Norway and in Japanese, colds are often referred to and thought of by virtue of their bacterial forms after the common cold virus occupies the immune system.
A cold that has no bacterial symptom is rarely regarded as a cold at all in either country.
And yes, cold temperatures and such but how relevant is that to a normal sleeping environment, how many people actually do get sick after sleeping with wet hair, are there actual studies specifically about this etc etc etc
What is a normal sleeping environment? Most Norwegians sleep with their windows open in mid-winter. Meanwhile, Japanese houses hardly ever have "proper"(by which I mean to say by European standards) insulation, nor central heating, which means that at night-time in winter your "normal sleeping environment" in Japan frequently dips below 10 degrees Celsius.
I'm not making a claim here about how many people this is true for. I'm contending the statement that no one has ever gotten sick as a result of wet hair.
The problem with this discussion even among health professionals in the west, and especially the entertainment science pieces in popular media written by people looking to make add revenue more than making actual informative and nuanced articles, is that they're too obtuse to recognize the difference between the statement "being cold (literally) makes you sick"(which is categorically wrong) and "being cold makes you more susceptible to protracting viral agents and develop bacterial infections due to decreased immune system function" - which pretty much goes without saying, since we already know that body heat impacts immune system response, and also impacts cortisol balance, which in turn also effects immune system response.
Again, nobody is magically getting sick from being cold, or having wet hair. They're getting sick from virus and bacterias they protract which the immune system then fails to catch in time due to set-backs caused by the body dealing with dips in temperature.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/3/827
https://www.univadis.co.uk/viewarti...rce=TrendMD&utm_campaign=Univadis_Acquisition
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101130200.htm
No, obviously there are not tons of studies on exactly how many are likely to protract a cold from sleeping with wet hair. Then again, there are very few studies on how many people are likely to suffer from loss of sight if, specifically, someone throws a golf-ball in their left eye.
That's not an indication of golf balls not having blinding potential though. We understand the mechanics of surrounding the function of the eye well enough to determine, even without conducting specific experiments for every conceivable type of eye trauma, what kind of impacts are likely to cause it to be damaged.
Now I'm not claiming body temperature loss and its relation to the functions of the immune system is as well understood. Certainly not. It is however understood to an extent that carries with it a set of specific implication.
- Increased reduction in body-temperature due to wetness is not in contention scientifically.
- Lowered body-heat is very likely to effect immune system response.
- When you loose body heat in the area surrounding your mouth and nose blood vessels in the nose and throat constrict. Those vessels deliver white blood cells, and so if less white blood cells reach the nose and throat your defenses against a cold virus or other bacterias would be lowered until your temp goes back up.
- Changes in immune system response can be seen as early on as in one or two degrees change at the local area of the nose, mouth etc.
I.E People who sleep with wet hair in relatively cold environments (let's say below 15 Celsius), will therefore lose local body temperature around the head, which in turn will make their immune system operate less efficiently, which in turn makes them more prone to develop colds.
Is this a surefire theory on part with the theory of evolution?
No. It's still a pretty solid one though, that many health care professions give credence to, which neatly explains what we observe to be happening.
When you add those facts together with countless of people's experiences, myself among them, of hitting the sack with we hair and waking up with a sore throat, I think it's arrogant and uninformed to say "sleeping with wet hair never made anyone sick" - which is what I'm contended.
Um... she's not left alone for days, it's like two hours tops before Biggs/Wedge/Jessie get back. She can't reach the appliances, Tifa might have food left out, and if she clogs the toilet... so what? You have a young child in the house, cleaning up is half your life anyway.
I don't think it's established when and even if they come back.
In the discussion of responsible parenting though, that is completely irrelevant.
These people are heading off to fight a war of terror on a militarized global monopoly. They might not come back at all, and indeed they should be prepared for that.
The fact that they leave Marlene alone, knowing they might never be able to return for her, is indicative of bad parenting. The fact that they happen to have the good luck to return does not change that, and as such is a red herring.
As for possible solutions to some of the practical concerns I raised - this also entirely misses the point.
Tifa could have left food out - Marlene could also choke to death on that food as she might not be able to pace herself properly when eating, and nobody will be there to help her.
The clogging of the toilet could have a huge taxing effect on their personal economy and ability to properly feed Marlene. Hey, Barret takes money out of Marlene's schooling to pay Cloud to help him commit terror.
The point here is that, by not being here, there's a million and one ways in which Marlene can fetch herself up, which would not happen if they were there. For every convenient solution you can dream up there's another problem waiting around the corner.
This is why parenting in early stages is largely about being present and awake, because only by being present and awake can you respond to the variety of issues that will inevitable occur as you raise a small child.
It is inadvisable to leave her alone, but it's not like she self destructs if no one is looking at her. Lock up the sharp things/matches/guns, tape shut drawers and stuff she can use to climb, and it is reasonable to expect that she will still be alive when you come back.
Hope you're never tasked with baby-sitting. Leaving a four year old alone is very, very ill advised. There's not enough tape in the world, unless you're taping the kid down, to prevent a four year old from messing stuff up.
On of the most common things kids in that age group are brought into the emergency room with, is burns. Usually they acquire them when parents leave them unwatched.
In either case, it's irrelevant - because the issue here is the irresponsible nature of leaving to chance whether your kid ends up in trouble or not, by leaving them alone at that age.
Yes, the kid might be fine when and if you return.
The issue here is though, Barret and Tifa can't know that, and they can't even know if they'll return at all.
That is not good parenting.
I hope for the sake if your kids/potential future kids, that you give this some more thought.