Your grandmother was right:

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British researchers into the common cold say "catching a chill" really does help colds develop -- and are advising to "wrap up warm" to keep viruses at bay.

The Chill itself doesn't bring the infection to you.. it is simply reducing some of the body's defences and making them more susceptible to have existing infection giving them an opportunity to make a run for it.. to over turn the body's defences for a time.

That's fine. Now let's hope they don't discover she was also right about rubbing goose fat on a child's chest to protect it against colds

My grandmother, an extremely intelligent woman, was convinced that having milk and fish at the same meal was poisonous. Of course, that is nonsense. In fact, I am eating fish and drinking milk right n

Poor DG. Maybe it was uncooked puffer fish and he's lactose-intolerant.