What symptom is severe cold

summary

Children are the flesh of parents' hearts, and children's colds are also something that parents worry about. It is inevitable that children will catch colds in life. To prevent children's colds, we must first understand the symptoms of children's colds. Now let's tell you what the symptoms of children's cold are.

What symptom is severe cold

Symptom 1: latent period symptom: in the latent period, there are basically no symptoms, and the latent time is mostly 2-3 days.

Symptom 2: mild symptoms: only nasal symptoms. For example: runny nose, sneezing, stuffy nose, etc., sometimes there are tears, slight cough or throat discomfort, which can be naturally cured in 3-4 days. Some infection to the nasopharynx, often accompanied by fever, sore throat, tonsil and pharyngeal wall lymph tissue congestion and hyperplasia, sometimes lymph nodes will be slightly enlarged. This fever can last 2-3 days or even 1 week.

Symptom 3: serious symptoms: body temperature will reach 39 ~ 40 ℃ or even higher, accompanied by chills, headache, general weakness, loss of appetite, poor sleep, etc., soon the throat will be slightly red, herpes and ulcer, which is called herpetic pharyngitis. Sometimes swelling is particularly obvious, affecting tonsil, appear follicular purulent exudate, sore throat and systemic symptoms are increased, nasopharyngeal secretions from thin to thick. Submandibular lymph nodes are especially enlarged. If the inflammation spreads to the sinuses, middle ear or trachea, other symptoms will occur, and the systemic symptoms will become more serious. In severe symptoms, we should pay attention to febrile convulsion and acute abdominal pain, and make differential diagnosis with other diseases.

matters needing attention

Parents should not cover their children with too many quilts when they have a cold, because too high temperature is also one of the risks of their children's death, and their children's body temperature should not be too low. Hypothermia is also dangerous.