Why do you get hot when you have a cold?

Answer 1

The flu that makes you hot because flu typically causes a rise in body temperature. Colds make you feel cold because the blood flow is diverted from the skin to the respiratory tract to help fight the cold viral infection.

Answer 2

Because some of the cold inducing bacterial cells cause you to gain a fever the name a cold was created because people would mostly get colds while it's cold out.