The periodic symptom of cold?

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A cold is a very common disease. We have had a cold more or less all year round. Cold is because of infection with bacteria or virus, western medicine bar cold is divided into bacterial cold and viral cold. Bacterial colds need to take antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, while viral colds need to take traditional Chinese medicine. The periodic symptom of cold? Let's talk about it

The periodic symptom of cold?

If the body is infected with the cold virus, in the first two days of cold symptoms, it has been infectious. But in the period from 2 days before the cold to 3 days after the cold, the virus is the most infectious. Therefore, it's better not to go to places with too many people and poor air circulation in winter.

There is another characteristic of cold: it follows the rule of "1,3,5,7". That is to say, if one day is not good, it has to be delayed to three days, and then to five or seven days, which is related to the ability of virus reproduction and the toxicity of the virus. Every once in a while, the virus will reproduce. During this period of time, if they can't be completely eliminated, once they have the breeding time, they will come back. Therefore, there is a time course from medication to complete elimination of the virus, and there will be some repetition in the process. Don't use antibiotics just because you've been ill for three or five days.

In principle, cold medicine should be "less and more refined". When one drug works, you don't have to use two drugs. Taking a variety of cold drugs at the same time, it is easy to cause excessive antipyretic analgesics and antihistamines, mild adverse reactions, severe may be toxic. After someone has a cold, in order to cure the cold as soon as possible, they always take antibiotics, antipyretic analgesics and Chinese patent medicine together when taking medicine. This practice is extremely unsafe. Especially the elderly, often a number of diseases, in addition to cold medicine, two or three drugs are often used together, more than five or six drugs at the same time. According to statistics, the incidence of adverse reactions was 18.6%; When more than 6 kinds of drugs were used at the same time, the incidence of adverse reactions increased to 81.4%.

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It is worth mentioning that if you often catch a cold and cough, it is likely that your resistance is weak. Usually, you can strengthen some physical exercise, so as to increase your resistance