Four seas net: summer weather is very hot, a lot of people ignore the problem of cold. In fact, don't think it's not easy to catch a cold in summer. Sometimes it's more troublesome when you catch a cold in summer, especially when your baby has a cold. So is the baby's summer cold wind cold or wind heat cold? How should parents distinguish between wind cold and wind heat cold? Let's follow the editor to learn more about it~
Is the baby's cold in summer wind cold or wind heat cold
Baby's cold in summer is mostly wind heat cold, but there are also wind cold cold cold. To know exactly whether the baby's cold is wind cold or wind heat, parents should carefully observe the baby's cold symptoms. The following will make a detailed description of the two types of cold symptoms.
Symptoms of cold and wind: mild fever, severe cold, no sweat, headache, body pain, nasal congestion, clear tears, cough, no swelling of throat, light red tongue, tight pulse.
Symptoms of wind heat and cold: severe fever, mild cold, sweating or less sweating, headache and congestion, runny nose, swelling and pain of throat, red tongue, fast pulse count.
The comparison between the two colds is as follows:
Perspiration: no perspiration is wind cold, and perspiration (virtual perspiration) is wind heat.
Temperature: fever (not very high temperature) is wind cold, fever (high fever) is wind heat.
Pain: headache and body pain are caused by wind cold, and sore throat by wind heat.
Runny nose: clear runny nose is wind cold, yellow runny nose is wind heat.
Phlegm: thin white cough phlegm is cold, thick yellow cough phlegm is hot.
Fear of cold: the cold is the wind, not afraid of cold wind and heat.
Tongue coating: white coating is cold, yellow coating is hot.
Cause: cold wind caused by cold wind and wind heat caused by exogenous heat pathogen.
Attention should be paid to summer damp cold and summer heat cold in summer
According to the understanding of TCM syndrome differentiation on cold, summer cold also includes heat dampness cold and heat cold. Both of them are caused by feeling heat, but they have the difference of "wetness or not" and different clinical manifestations, so the treatment methods are different.
1. Cold due to heat and dampness
Hot and humid cold is commonly known as "hot cold". Heat dampness cold is characterized by fever, heavy head and turbid nose. Most of the fever was a low fever of about 38 ℃, which was significantly increased in the afternoon, but the fever did not decrease after sweating. The internal manifestations are disharmony of spleen and stomach, vomiting and diarrhea caused by digestive system dysfunction. This kind of people usually dry mouth but do not want to drink more water, and their tongue coating is yellow and greasy. In addition, the heat dampness cold usually has a long course, and most of them need several days of treatment to recover.
Treatment:
According to the etiology and symptom characteristics of the cold, it is obviously not feasible to take the method of sweating to treat it. The correct treatment is to clear away the heat and eliminate the damp heat. The treatment can be combined with medicine. It is suggested that the patients with cold of summer dampness should eat more food to dispel summer dampness, such as barley porridge, winter melon and mung bean soup, carp and red bean soup, lotus leaf rice, etc. the diet should be light and rest more. In the aspect of medication, you can choose the traditional Chinese medicine prescription plus Elsholtzia decoction. Other Chinese patent medicines include Qushu pill, Shushi Ganmao granule, Huoxiang Zhengqi pill, Qingshu Yiqi pill, Xiaoer Shuganning syrup, etc.
2. Hot summer cold
The hot summer cold is caused by the invasion of hot summer pathogenic factors to human body and the consumption of Tianjin Qi. The symptoms are more sweating, thirsty and upset, short and red urination, less tiredness and low spirit. It is a kind of severe symptoms in the four seasons cold.
Treatment:
The treatment should be based on clearing away heat and nourishing qi, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid, while the cold medicine of xinwenjiebiao, such as the cold Qingre granules commonly used by many people, cannot be used at this time. In the treatment of summer fever and cold, Qingre Shengjin should be the main drug. The common Chinese patent medicines include summer fever and cold granules, Qingliang granules and Yinhuang Injection, etc. You can also choose dietotherapy, using watermelon, tomato and other fruits to extract juice and drink, pay attention to drinking more water to clear the summer heat.
In addition, we should also pay attention to distinguish the hot cold and heatstroke. The typical heatstroke is headache, vomiting, sweating and weakness, but there is no fever. Severe heatstroke can make people faint suddenly.