When the weather gets cold, it is easy to catch a cold. Doctors suggest drinking more water and taking less medicine when catching a cold. Why do some patients come in the opposite direction?

Recently, when summer and autumn alternate, once you don't keep warm, it is easy for people to catch cold diseases such as colds, especially for the elderly and children with low immunity. Many people take medicine at random when they have a cold, which is actually wrong, because we have different types of colds and different treatment methods.

Many people habitually take cold medicine after catching a cold, and clinicians suggest that drinking more boiled water will help to recover from the cold as soon as possible. Recently, Xiao Bian has a common cold. I didn't take any medicine for a few days, and my cold was cured. For colds, doctors believe that the human body will generally have self-physiological protection. If there are no complications, drink more water, rest more, and don't take medicine. Generally, you can heal yourself in seven days. So there is a saying that it takes seven days to take medicine for a cold, and a week without medicine is good.

It is known that both Chinese medicine and western medicine have the saying "self-healing in seven days", which is correct for the cold itself. However, it is often counterproductive. Patients think that medicine can cure the disease. Once they catch a cold, they think that taking medicine is the best solution. However, this kind of practice is really undesirable, which is not only not good for the health, but also slowly weakens one's immunity.

Most colds are caused by virus infection. At present, Western medicine still has no specific medicine for viruses. Fortunately, the human body itself has the ability of self-defense, which is accomplished by using the characteristics of stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing, coughing and even fever.

The cold medicine invented by western medicine not only can't fight the cold virus, but also attacks these physiological protection methods. On the surface, the symptoms seem to have improved, but in fact, it is "opening the door and inviting wolves into the room".

For the sake of their own health, it is suggested that those patients who are sick with a cold should listen to the doctor's advice more and not blindly take medicine.