5 reasons not to give up your hat in cold weather

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Many people take the adage that "the legs should be kept warm and the head cold" is taken literally. This is especially noticeable in the cold season. We wear warm shoes, insulated outerwear, gloves, scarves … but we don’t wear hats. The motives for not wearing a hat can be understood - the fear of ruining the hairstyle, the desire to look more interesting (and in the case of teenagers, more mature), inconvenience. However, the refusal of the cold from the headdress can not lead to anything pleasant. Here are 5 proofs.

Here are the consequences for those who like to walk without a hat:

1. Weakened immunity

At temperatures above freezing, hats and hats may not be worn, given that you have not been ill recently or are simply not prone to frequent colds. But as soon as the thermometer falls below the "zero" mark, take a hat. Hypothermia of the head very quickly leads to a weakening of the body as a whole, immunity decreases, the risk of developing diseases, both chronic and acute (ARVI, influenza), increases.

2. Diseases of the ears

Ears do not tolerate sharp temperature contrast.

First of all, the ears suffer from the lack of a headdress. Hair is not sufficient protection for them, therefore, in the cold wind, they are the first to freeze and begin to ache. They hurt no less when you enter a warm room after a cold. Ears do not tolerate sharp temperature contrast. The possibility of developing otitis media or the appearance of a boil in the ear canal increases. It also disrupts the nutrition of the auditory nerve, which may even impair hearing. We must not forget that all the organs in the head are close and connected to each other: one will become inflamed, and others will "catch". Auditory canals, mucous membranes of the nose, tonsils - disruption of their work leads to angina, sinusitis and frontal sinusitis.

3. Damage to the facial nerves

Cold wind and frost have a strong effect on the nervous system. Blood circulation is impaired, blood vessels are narrowed, this leads to neuralgia of the facial and trigeminal nerves. And if the inflammation of the trigeminal will bring you only severe shooting pain (which is also very unpleasant), then the defeat of the facial can lead to the fact that half of your face is literally distorted.

4. Meningitis

Ever since childhood, mothers forced us to wear hats, scaring us with meningitis.

Ever since childhood, mothers forced us to wear hats, scaring us with meningitis. In fact, you cannot catch meningitis just by being in the cold. But it develops easily with weakened immunity and hypothermia. Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges. If treatment is delayed, meningitis can cause deafness and epilepsy.

5. Hair loss

If you think that without wearing a hat, you will save your hair, you are deeply mistaken, since you are doing exactly the opposite. Of course, your styling will not suffer, but the hair itself is very even. Cold causes vasoconstriction, which impairs blood supply. Accordingly, this leads to a deterioration in the nutrition of the hair follicles, dryness of the scalp and, as a result, hair loss. At the very least, they become dull and brittle.