What should I do if I catch a cold in summer?

The medical community found that most of the summer colds are caused by the sudden cold of the body, which cools the blood, reflexively causes transient ischemia of the nasopharynx, weakens the human body's resistance, and makes the cold virus take advantage of it. In addition to the common cold symptoms, summer colds also show internal heat such as thirst and upset. Therefore, people call summer colds "hot colds".

According to medical records, "the quiet person is yin and summer heat, and the moving person is yang and summer heat." The so-called yang-summer heat is characterized by high fever, anxiety, excessive sweating, thirst, weakness of limbs, pulse floating or factor weakness. Most patients work too long or travel long distances in the scorching sun or high temperature environment, which is what we usually call "heatstroke". The so-called yin-summer fever, its symptoms are headache, aversion to cold, physical anxiety, skin pain, upset and thirsty, skin heat without sweat, tight pulse and so on. This is often due to the hot weather, people crave cold and drink cold, or lie naked under the melon shed, or enjoy the cool in the Shentang wetland, or be blown by electric fans and air conditioners for too long, or eat too much watermelon cold drinks.

According to clinical observation, the main symptoms of cold patients are runny nose, dizziness, chills and sweating, upset and thirsty, weakness of limbs and so on. This will pose a serious threat to children, the elderly or the infirm.

A cold is not contagious. The flu is contagious, while the common cold is not flu and is not contagious. However, colds can induce some diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and asthma. The acute attack of most outpatients has certain inducement, such as cold, fatigue and emotional factors. This has something to do with cold. Children with colds are prone to convulsions and coma; The elderly are often complicated with pneumonia, which induces dangerous diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction.

1) TCM treatment of "heat flu";

1. Wind-heat type

Severe fever, mild aversion to cold, dry throat pain, even swelling and pain of throat and tonsils, stuffy nose, yellow runny nose, thirst, cough and phlegm. Can be used for wind-heat cold granules, Radix Isatidis, Sangju cold tablets, Yinqiao Jiedu tablets, Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, etc.

2. Wind-cold type

Severe aversion to cold, mild fever, obvious headache and joint pain, heavy nasal congestion, runny nose, no thirst, white and thin sputum when coughing, no obvious sore throat, or only itchy throat. It can be taken in Ganmao Ganmao Granule, Ganmao Qingre Granule, Yinqiao Jiedu Pill, afternoon tea, etc. At home, you can also use 30 grams of green onion, 9 grams of lobster sauce and 9 grams of ginger to decoct.

3. Summer heat type

Dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting or diarrhea, accompanied by fever, aversion to cold, headache or general pain, not thinking about diet. You can choose Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Liuhe Zhong Ding Pill, Ten Drops of Water or Ren Dan for oral administration, and cool oil for external use. Chinese patent medicine can also use Sizheng Pill, which can dispel summer heat, dispel cold, strengthen stomach and harmonize middle energizer.

Chinese medicine experts remind that once caught by a "cold", if there are symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing, dizziness and headache. You can use Chuanxiong Tea Powder or Jiuwei Qianghuo Pill; If you have cough, sore throat and yellow phlegm, you can use Yinqiao Jiedu tablets. If you have chills, fever, upset and nausea, you can use Xiaochaihu powder or mixture. All of the above can be combined with antiviral particles.

2) Dietotherapy and medicated diet for "hot cold":

1. Qingshu Qushi Tea

Take 20g of fresh tofu, 20g of fresh lotus leaves and 20g of fresh roses. First, cut the lotus leaf into filaments, put it in a container filled with flat bean curd and roses, add 500 ml of water, fry it into thick juice, and add a proper amount of rock sugar to drink tea.

2. patchouli leaf porridge

Use 20 grams of fresh patchouli leaves and appropriate amount of sugar. Decoct the leaves of Pogostemon cablin, add sugar after 5 minutes, 3-4 times a day. Or use100g of japonica rice to cook porridge, add Pogostemon cablin juice and cook for 30 minutes to get Pogostemon cablin porridge. Take it moderately.

3) Precautions for preventing "cold":

1. Exercise, strengthen your physique, and pay attention to changing clothes according to the weather changes to prevent colds and heatstroke.

2. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest to prevent overwork and enhance the body's disease resistance.

3. It is necessary to appropriately increase some nutritious foods, such as lean meat, fish, milk, eggs, animal livers, bean products, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. To supplement the body's energy consumption.

4. Don't sleep outdoors at night, don't blow the fan excessively, and don't sleep in a cool place with through flow, such as under the eaves and by the wall, to avoid catching a cold.

5. Sweating in hot weather should not be washed with cold water. Pay attention to rain protection in rainy days. If your clothes are wet, put on dry clothes immediately after you go home.

Love tip: please consult the local regular Chinese medicine hospital for the above prescriptions, and select the prescriptions according to their own physiological characteristics and different pathological changes.