Sports for colds (good or bad)

For a long time, doctors around the world argued whether it was harmful to the body sport for colds… After all, when you are sick, your body is already weakened by the struggle with the disease, what kind of physical activity is there!

How does sports with a cold affect your well-being?

At the end of the 20th century, North American doctors tried to prove that physical activity with a cold not only does not harm the well-being of a cold person, but even helps the body to cope with the disease. During the study, a group of volunteers was injected through the nasal cavity with the common cold virus. After that, all test subjects expected to have a runny nose. After some time, when the disease reached its maximum symptomatology, the sick were sent to take the “sports for a cold” test – using a treadmill. After that, the researchers recorded that the cold did not affect the work of the lungs, as well as the ability of the patient’s body to endure physical activity.

Sports and colds – two incompatible things?

It would seem what a positive result! However, there were many critics of such studies. They argue that doctors are experimenting with a strain of the common cold virus that is too mild, which causes little or no health complications. Whereas in real life, a sick person is attacked by viruses of different types, which, firstly, can damage the lung tissue and bronchi. And secondly, the cardiovascular system. This means that if, for example, physical activity is considered not with a cold, but during the flu, then you can get serious complications in the heart. Playing sports, a sick person overloads the myocardium. Influenza causes inflammation.