A new study suggests that being cold leads persons to catching a cold, HealthDay News announced.

Although previous research discredited any link between getting a chill and catching a cold, the Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales proved otherwise.

They've asked 180 volunteers to take off their shoes and socks and either soak their feet in ice-cold water or place them in an empty bowl for 20 minutes.

The results were amazing, 29 percent of them developed cold symptoms over the next four to five days.

"When colds are circulating in the community many people are mildly infected but show no symptoms. If they become chilled this causes a pronounced constriction of the blood vessels in the nose and shuts off the warm blood that supplies the white cells that fight infection", study co-author Professor Ron Eccles said.

The common cold is a mild viral infectious disease of the nose and throat; the upper respiratory system. Symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, running/blocked nose; scratchy, sore or phlegmy throat; coughing; headache and tiredness.
Colds typically last three to five days, with residual coughing lasting up to three weeks.