Men suffer more by cold than women: research

According to a new research, men really do suffer more than women when they get a cold.

The male immune system is less effective at fighting off infections than the female system and that means men feel worse when battling illness than women, researchers have shown.

Dr Ramona Scotland, of Queen Mary University of London, led a team which studied the immune systems of mice and rats given a host of different infections. They looked at the white blood cells in the lungs and stomach, which act as the body’s first line of defence against infection.

“We found that the females had around twice as many white blood cells than males which was a huge surprise,” a newspaper quoted her as saying. “For all types of illness, the female mice and rats were less sick than the male.