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Affected by a cold air in the past few days, the temperature has dropped sharply across the country, and the highest temperature in many areas in the north has dropped to From 2°C to 3°C, the minimum temperature drops below freezing point, the temperature changes obviously, and it is easy to find a cold. When should I take medicine for a cold? How to deal with it scientifically?
Cold is a self-healing disease. Patients with good constitution should drink more warm water after a cold, pay attention to rest, and recover without taking medicine; patients with poor constitution, if they do not take medicine in time, It will aggravate cold symptoms, or secondary lung infection, causing bronchitis, pneumonia, and some patients may also be secondary to rheumatic fever, glomerulonephritis, viral myocarditis, etc.
Take cold medicine, be careful not to overdose, do not drink alcohol or drive after taking the medicine. Many people feel dizzy and want to sleep after taking cold medicine. This is caused by antihistamines, which are found in Gankang, Tylenol and other medicines. A foreign survey on drug use in fatal traffic accidents shows that among people who drive after taking drugs, the accident rate caused by taking drugs containing antihistamines is as high as 72%.
For patients with early-stage wind-cold cold who do not have fever but only have symptoms such as cough, yellow phlegm, dry throat and sore throat, ginger water can be used to treat colds.
Specific method: Take an egg-sized piece of ginger and cut it into filaments for later use. Or put the shredded ginger in a thermos cup with good thermal insulation performance, add boiling water and soak in the thermos cup for 15 minutes. Pour the boiled or soaked ginger water into a bowl, wait until it is warm, drink the whole bowl of ginger water in one go, and then drink another bowl of hot gruel to help the medicine.
Subsequently, the patient should immediately burrow into the quilt until the perspiration is slightly damp, and the quilt can be released when the sweat slowly subsides. At this time, you must be careful not to catch cold and wind, otherwise the cold will be easy to repeat. If you are still afraid of cold, headache, and nasal congestion, you can drink a bowl of ginger water every 4 hours and continue to sweat in this way until the symptoms disappear.
The general population should prevent colds every day by wearing masks, washing hands frequently, drinking more water, staying up late and exercising more. Colds are respiratory diseases, and wearing a mask can prevent colds to a large extent. After going out and touching public facilities, you should wash your hands frequently, so as to reduce the infection of bacteria and viruses through your hands. When the pharynx is too dry, the immune defense ability of the human body will decline. It is necessary to eat a light diet and eat more fruits and vegetables. Staying up late may affect people’s mental state and reduce the body’s immunity. Exercise can enhance the body’s own resistance, remove the virus, and thus avoid the occurrence of colds.
Science popularization expert:
He Zhongfang, chief pharmacist of the Pharmacy Department of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University
Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Oriental Hospital, Sub-Health Department Gao Ao
< p>Beijing News reporter Zhang Zhaohui
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