When it comes to our kids and health, most parents will do anything to make them feel better, sometimes it can get a bit confusing with all the information out there, it's time to get facts from fiction.
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The first myth and common one, you'll catch a cold if you go outside with wet hair.
"No you can't catch a cold with wet hair per se. In your immune function may be compromised because now your body is spending all that energy to keep your head warm and in doing so your immune system will be a bit weakened but in deed you do not catch a cold form wet hair," said Dr. Manny Cirenza.
How about the chicken soup, is it good for a cold?
"Chicken soup for a cold isn't going to be specifically helpful for a cold but anytime anyone has a cold, it is important to have or good nutrition and good hydration so that is why it would help, but vegetable soup will be good too," Cirenza said.
Feed a cold starve a fever?
"My answer to that is feed them both. I think good nutrition and good hydration is key to fighting any illness," Cirenza said.
When it comes to supplements, what do you believe? Will vitamin C boost your immune system? Or taking zinc stave off a cold, yes or no?
"A lot of people are loading up on zinc. They have done a lot of interesting studies on this and found unfortunately, it is not terrible effective. For the most part, save your money on zinc," Cirenza said.
And as far as Vitamin C boosting your immune system, there's not much evidence it helps, and a common one Dr. Cirenza hears often, do white spots on the back of the throat mean strep?
"For the most part certain you can see that with strep the clinical thing, I see is a bright red throat or a spotted red throat. So if you see bright of the throat much more indicates than white puss in the back of the throat," said Cirenza.