Stay in an air-conditioned room in summer. What if you catch a cold?

Now people's living environment is very different from that of the ancients. There is air conditioning and refrigeration in summer now. Outdoor people are sweating like rain, while those who work and live indoors enjoy the coolness and comfort brought by air conditioning. Who knows, this "ice and fire" life always threatens people's health. The survey found that the incidence of air-conditioning disease is directly proportional to the temperature, and now air-conditioning disease has become a "cold knife" to kill people who enjoy air conditioning in summer.

Summer cold is also called summer wet cold and summer cold. The cause is mostly due to the sultry summer and excessive air conditioning to feel the evil of wind and cold. All kinds of colds have symptoms of stuffy nose, runny nose and fever. The difference is that wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds mostly occur in autumn, winter and spring, with slight fever and severe aversion to cold. Summer-damp cold is a unique cold in summer, with heavy fever and light aversion to cold. The average patient has no cold feeling, only fever.

In summer, long days, relatively reduced sleep time, sultry weather and easy sweating, and relatively reduced exercise will all lead to decreased immunity. Coupled with the high humidity of the air, many people are in an air-conditioned environment. As long as they are indoors, it is hot outside and cold inside, and they are accidentally blown out with a cold, which is often said-air conditioning is cold. This kind of cold is more contagious than the common cold, so pay more attention to prevention.

Catch a cold four times a month.

"In just one month, I caught a cold four times. The doctor said that all my colds were blown out by the air conditioner. Take a drip to take medicine, and it will take at least a week to recover. " Mr. Wu said helplessly.

In fact, in summer, many people catch a cold because the air conditioner blows cold air for a long time. Mr. Wu is by no means a case. Especially when it rains occasionally and the temperature drops, many offices still have air conditioning on, so some people with poor health are prone to catch a cold. Most of the colds blown out by the cold air of this air conditioner are wind-cold colds. For people who live in the office for a long time, once they get it, it is more difficult to cure than the common cold.

Sweat first when you catch a cold in the air conditioner.

The cold blown out by air conditioner is a cold wrapped in fire, not a cold cold, but a manifestation of heatstroke constitution. This is why air-conditioned colds are often more difficult to treat than common colds. Therefore, the treatment of this cold should be treated differently from other types of colds.

The cold caused by air conditioning should first sweat and try to drive away the cold on the body surface. You can drink a cup of ginger juice first, then take a hot bath or cover the quilt to sweat, and then start the treatment of clearing the fire after sweating. Generally speaking, the cold caused by air conditioning should not sweat for a long time, but there must be sweating. You will feel much more comfortable after sweating all over.

After sweating, you need to remove the heat from your body. At this time, the exterior cold disappeared. You can drink some Huoxiang Zhengqi water, lotus leaf water or mung bean soup to clear the fire. If you take some cold medicine with treatment, the effect will be good.

Prevention and control must start from inside and outside.

Of course, treatment after illness is not as good as prevention before illness. Air conditioning doesn't catch a cold, so it needs both inside and outside. To enhance resistance, such as ensuring a good sleep, eating more fruits rich in vitamins, drinking more water to supplement electrolytes, and managing diet and nutrition. We should also actively prevent cold air from directly stimulating the respiratory tract, such as reducing the temperature difference between the internal and external environment and avoiding cold air blowing directly on the body. At the same time, it is suggested to clean the upper respiratory tract with light salt water in time, which can also reduce the occurrence of colds.

If you take antipyretics like a cold in winter, it will not only have a bad effect, but also have some side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses heat-clearing and dampness-drying prescription to treat summer cold. Lotus seed porridge also has a good therapeutic effect on summer colds. That is, fresh lotus leaves, patchouli and coix seed are decocted in water, then decocted with low fire for 20 minutes, and the residue is filtered to obtain the liquid medicine. Eat it once in the morning and once in the evening. Lotus leaf is not only fragrant and dampness-removing, but also heat-clearing and summer-relieving, which is a good summer-relieving product. Pogostemon cablin can enhance the fragrance and has the effect of eliminating dampness. Its taste is pungent and warm, and it can also dispel external cold. Coix seed strengthens the spleen and promotes diuresis, so that summer-heat dampness is discharged with urine. Modern research has found that coix seed can also enhance immune function and improve adaptability. Therefore, lotus seed porridge has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on people who enter air-conditioned rooms from high temperature environment and have similar cold symptoms due to poor adaptability.