What kind of disease is easily mistaken for a cold

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Cold is one of the common diseases in winter. Many friends will catch cold in winter. Common symptoms of cold can also appear in other diseases. Therefore, many friends will mistake other diseases for colds. What diseases are most likely to be misunderstood? Let's take a look at the following.

What kind of disease is easily mistaken for a cold

First: allergic rhinitis of "false cold". Patients may have nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing and other "similar" cold symptoms, accompanied by mild fever, fatigue and headache, but anti viral drugs or traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxification have "resistance". Compared with the common cold, patients with allergic rhinitis have more serious nasal symptoms, such as runny nose, itchy nose, long time, sometimes lasting for one or two months. Allergic rhinitis and cold are not difficult to distinguish. The etiology of the two is different, cold is caused by the virus, allergic rhinitis is caused by pollen, fungal spores and other allergens. Secondly, from the symptoms, allergic rhinitis generally does not have fever, no body ache and other symptoms, only sneezing, runny nose, itchy nose and other manifestations of local upper respiratory tract infection, and some patients will be accompanied by itchy eyes, tears, chest tightness and suffocation and other symptoms. "As long as it's separated from the common cold, with anti allergic drugs, we can deal with allergic rhinitis."

Second: lobar pneumonia of "pseudocold". Mainly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, there will be high fever, cough, shivering and other similar cold symptoms. Clinically, this disease is most likely to occur in young people. They often feel strong and take the early symptoms of cough, phlegm and fever as common cold, which delays the treatment. An important feature of lobar pneumonia is that patients will have fever, and in X-ray examination, the lung can see obvious substantive changes. Cold, fatigue, drunkenness, cold caused by rain, may induce lobar pneumonia, so to avoid cold and excessive fatigue is a very effective preventive measure.

Third: "pseudocold" of "confinement". In the postpartum joint pain, chills, fear of wind and other similar cold symptoms, may be caused by the wind cold dampness evil, injury to joints, muscles, also known as "moon disease". To this end, Hualing, chief gynecologist of Beijing Traditional Chinese medicine hospital, said that in the short term after delivery, mothers should try not to eat cold drinks or use cold water, especially at joints.

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The symptoms of these diseases will be similar to cold, so many friends will mistake them for cold. Distinguish between these diseases and cold, so that you can better treat the disease. If you don't understand the difference between them, get a doctor in time when you have a cold.