Treatment of cold symptoms

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Cold is a common respiratory disease caused by a variety of viruses, which can be divided into common cold and influenza. What we usually say is common cold, commonly known as cold. Colds are mostly caused after people catch a cold. They begin to feel dry, itchy and hot in the nasopharynx, and then sneeze, stuffy nose, clear nose and tears. The treatment of cold symptom? Let's talk about it

Treatment of cold symptoms

Patients with severe illness or fever or old and weak should stay in bed, avoid smoking, drink more water and keep air circulation indoors. If you have fever and headache, you can choose antipyretic analgesic tablets, such as compound aspirin and Qutong tablets. Pharyngodynia can be treated with xiaoyanhoupian and local atomization. Nasal congestion and runny nose can be dripped with 1% ephedrine.

Penicillin, first-generation cephalosporins, macrolides or quinolones can be used as appropriate when there is evidence of bacterial infection such as increased white blood cell count, purulent coating of pharynx and cough sputum. It is rarely necessary to choose sensitive antibiotics according to the pathogen.

At present, there is no specific antiviral drugs for antiviral treatment, and the abuse of antiviral drugs can cause the phenomenon of cold virus resistance. Therefore, if no fever, normal immune function, more than two days of onset of patients generally do not need to apply. Immunodeficient patients can be used early. Broad spectrum antiviral drugs ribavirin and oseltamivir have strong inhibitory effect on respiratory syncytial virus and can shorten the course of disease.

matters needing attention

At the same time, we should pay attention to dietary problems: should: eat jujube, yam, chicken, pork tripe, fish, loach, walnut, lentils, hawthorn, sesame, lily, ginger, onion, lotus seed, chestnut, drink more cold water and juice, should be nourishing diet, in order to benefit blood, light drink can calm Yin and latent Yang. Avoid: should not eat raw cold fat food, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach, so that evil retention, do not eat fried and spicy food, do not eat cock. Pig head meat, roast goose, avoid alcohol and tobacco