A cold in summer is different from a cold in winter and spring in pathogenic factors, clinical symptoms and drug treatment. In summer, colds are often caused by cold and heat, excessive cold, craving for cold sleep, eating cold drinks or getting wet, etc., and the resistance drops, which makes the virus take advantage of it and causes upper respiratory tract infection. Traditional Chinese medicine calls cold exterior syndrome, which is divided into wind-cold, wind-heat and summer-dampness. Most colds in summer belong to summer heat and dampness. Summer heat and humidity, summer heat and humidity intersect, and summer heat is wet, which is the characteristic of summer heat evil. In hot summer, people often use various methods to enjoy the cool, thus suffering from both heat and cold and dampness. In clinical consultation, we found that more than 1/3 patients developed the disease after being exposed to low temperature and air conditioning for a long time or being directly blown by an electric fan for a long time. Forced cooling immediately in a hot and sweaty state is very easy to cause diseases because the body cannot adapt to rapid environmental changes.
Symptoms of a cold in summer
The symptoms of a cold in summer are different from those in winter and spring. Most patients have moderate or above fever, body temperature 38.5 ~ 40℃, headache and fatigue, sometimes nausea and vomiting, accompanied by chest tightness, abdominal distension, diarrhea and dark yellow urine. Some patients have no other symptoms except fever and fatigue, such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, aversion to cold, cough and excessive phlegm. It is worth noting that patients with fever in summer can not be simply regarded as "upper sensation", but should also be differentiated from heatstroke, central nervous system infection, acute gastroenteritis and bacillary dysentery.
Treatment of common cold in summer
The particularity of pathogenic factors and symptoms determines the difference of therapeutic drugs. Since virus infection is the main factor, antiviral treatment is essential. Banlangen granules and Chinese patent medicines for clearing away heat and toxic materials commonly used in clinic have certain antiviral and antipyretic effects, so they can be selected. Patients with high fever should also be given antipyretic treatment and supplemented with liquids containing salt and energy. Antibiotics should be added to those who may be infected with bacteria in time, and β -lactams such as penicillin and amoxicillin can be selected. Quinolones, such as Lifosun macrolides, such as erythromycin and azithromycin. It is worth mentioning that Chinese patent medicines, such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water (tablets or capsules), Liuhe Zhong Ding Pill, Su Xiang Kevin·Z Pill, Liuyi Powder, etc., have the functions of aromatizing dampness, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle warmer, and have good curative effects on headache, dizziness, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., which are common in summer damp-heat colds. Cold granule is commonly used for colds in winter, but it is ineffective for colds in summer, because it mainly treats wind-heat colds, not summer-dampness syndrome.
The cold itself is not a serious illness, but also a self-limiting disease, which can usually heal itself within a week. Taking medicine only helps to improve symptoms. Patients should drink plenty of water, rest properly, advocate window ventilation and keep the indoor air fresh. Because it is not only easy to catch a cold in a closed air-conditioned room for a long time, but also the pathogenic microorganisms bred in the air are easy to make people suffer from other diseases.
Although the cold is a minor illness, if it is not taken seriously, or combined with other infections, it will also lead to serious diseases, such as pneumonia and myocarditis. Especially for patients with chronic diseases, serious clinical symptoms will appear, which will aggravate the basic diseases and should be treated in time. In addition, fever is not necessarily a cold, so you can't completely believe in self-diagnosis and buy medicine casually. If the symptoms are serious or persistent, you should also go to the hospital for medical treatment in time.