Aww Lisabelle, I hope you feel better soon! Colds are terrible. I haven't heard of not taking a bath or washing hair with a cold, but when I had a nasty UTI about a month ago I went around 5 days without washing. My hair felt nasty, but I just pulled it up, and my hair looked alot better when I washed it, because I was every other day.

Sorry I couldn't be much help, maybe someone will pop in with advice.

It's a Urinary Tract Infection. I took those AZO pills they advertise, and instead of helping they made the symptoms go away and make me think that I wasn't sick anymore. I had to go to the hospital and recieve IV fluids because I dehydrated. It was terrible.

I hope you are feeling better soon. 

In the meantime, keep you hair braided and out of the way.  If you hve a satin pillowcase, this is the time to use it.  Even wrapping your head/hair in a silky scarf will help you prevent damage to your hair (and even feel pretty!).

MinnieBelle, I've had those before and drank lots of cranberry juice to help clear it up.

Thank you all for the advise, your all so sweet!!   I have a satin pillow case I use so that should help and I'm keeping my hair in braids.  I'll try the scarf    Thanks again!

*brings hot blackcurrant juice* I hope you feel better soon.

Here, going to shower when one has cold isn't recommended either. The reason is, that a nice warm shower can make things move, and that can result to nasty things like otitis. Also, it's difficult to stay nice and warm while you're drying.

Anyway, when I'm ill, I usually make a scarf bun. It's comfortable to rest with (I can even sleep on that thing), the hair stays away for the whole day and doesn't ever need rearranging like my braids. I can wear it even overnight if I'm too tired to take it down and I look reasonably neat (I hate the zombie-look even when I feel like a zombie). Usually I mist my ends with rose water before putting them up. I've posted instruction for this style in Casual hairstyles. Only thing I'd like to add is that if you're going to use your scarf bun as headrest, make sure that you've inserted the pins so that they won't poke your scalp. You can simply press the bun against your head when it's ready- if nothing pokes you, you've made it right.

I've gone several days without washing this way. I noticed increasing in shedding towards the end, but not that much.

Hope you feel better soon i hate colds nasty thing

usually i just put my hair in a secured bun, and wrap a bandana or scarf around it- it looks nice and keeps the hair out if the way

I haven't any advice about the hair, but you do have my sympathy. Get better soon, drink plenty of liquids, and most important of all, eat chicken soup.