WITH reference to the medical experts at Boots chemist who are dispelling common old wives tales that getting your hair wet cannot bring on a cold (November 1).
As a child brought up in Thixendale during the last war, hair was washed in a tin bath over a log fire by mam, cut and dried by dad and straight to bed, after being told "you never go out with your hair wet, do you hear?" (I smile when I recall some of my hairstyles).
As I've grown older and disobeyed this useful advice, I can guarantee I have caught a cold within two or three days - even pneumonia on one occasion.
I can not explain this, I only know it's true.
I am willing to swap notes with the experts from Boots.
Mrs I Eden,
Pinewood Grove,
York.
Updated: 11:50 Tuesday, November 12, 2002
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