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What diseases can be caused by being cold all the time?

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Asked on:Apr 09, 2026 05:29 AM

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  • Elaina Elaina

    Apr 09, 2026

      Many people feel extremely cold even if it is not winter. The editor once met a person who wore long johns in summer. If this typical cold constitution is not properly maintained, what diseases will it cause in the long run?

      Dizziness, tinnitus, vomiting

      Ménière's syndrome, which is associated with symptoms of vertigo and tinnitus, often occurs during times of fatigue, sleep deprivation, and stress. In this state, the "out" process of metabolism will first encounter obstacles, leading to difficulty in urinating, thus causing water to remain in the body. Therefore, Meniere's syndrome is accompanied by vomiting symptoms. This is the body's response to excrete water, such as gastric juice, and reduce the total amount of water in the body and the lymph fluid in the inner ear.

      In other words, people who experience symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, Meniere's syndrome, sudden hearing loss, and vomiting are those who drink too much water, tea or cold drinks, take in too much water, and those who have poor water metabolism due to cold body.

      glaucoma

      If there is too much aqueous humor that cleans the lens of the eye, the eyeball will protrude forward and intraocular pressure will rise. Gently close your eyes and gently press your eyelids with the pads of your index and middle fingers. If it feels hard, it means high intraocular pressure.

      Since glaucoma is a water poisoning disease, from the perspective of the relationship between "cold", "water" and "pain", it can cause pain and headaches at the corners of the eyes. In order to discharge water, the body can also compress the optic nerve and cause blindness, so special attention should be paid.

      Needless to say, glaucoma is also more likely to occur in people who drink too much water and are cold.

      Once or twice a day, apply a towel soaked in hot water to your eyes and leave it on the face centered around the eyes for 5 minutes. This can usually improve glaucoma. If you apply a cold compress for about 1 minute after the hot compress and repeatedly alternate this process (hot → cold → hot... ending with a cold compress), the effect will be better.

      pain

      "Pain" such as headache, low back pain, joint pain, neuralgia, rheumatic pain, etc. often appear with body cold. These pains will basically be relieved after warming the body through bathing, sauna or hot compress.

      In addition, sometimes the painful area will heat up, which is also a manifestation of the body itself trying to relieve the pain through heating and warming.

      Gastroenteritis

      As mentioned before, catching a cold in the abdomen can cause abdominal pain and diarrhea (watery stool). "Cold", "water" and "pain" are related to each other.

      Therefore, if you eat too many cold drinks and foods, or if your abdomen gets cold while sleeping, you are prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea. People suffering from body cold syndrome often experience abdominal pain and are prone to diarrhea or loose stools.

      allergies

      Allergy symptoms in the body, such as conjunctivitis (tears), rhinitis (sneezing and runny nose), asthma (watery phlegm), dermatitis (eczema), and enteritis (diarrhoea), are all reactions that occur in order to warm the body by expelling excess water. The number of allergy patients in Japan has increased dramatically in recent years, and one of the big reasons is hypothermia (body cold).

      Western medicine believes that substances such as pollen, indoor dust, mold, milk, mackerel, and egg white are allergens (substances that cause allergies, that is, antigens), but in fact they are just inducements, not causes.