Wind-cold and viral cold are actually two different names, one in Chinese medicine and the other in Western medicine. In the field of Chinese medicine, the cold is divided into two kinds, one is the wind heat cold, one is the wind cold cold, then in the western medicine, there are two kinds of cold, one is the viral cold, the other is the bacterial cold. So, the two kinds of colds mentioned in the title are two different kinds of colds, so these two kinds of colds ah, not good to be put together for comparison.
Nevertheless, we can make a distinction between the two types of colds according to the traditional understanding of colds, and there is a big difference between the symptoms of wind-cold colds and viral colds.
The wind-cold cold is generally a cold that is caused by the cold in our body. This kind of cold is mainly manifested as, not easy to sweat, sometimes will show a headache, especially when the runny nose, it is easier to run clear snot, in the coughing time will be out of some thin white sputum. And wind-cold cold patients, his tongue is white, sometimes a little thin, sometimes a little thick, the degree of its thickness according to the severity of the cold or thick or thin.
The symptoms of a viral cold are much more pronounced than those of a simple wind-cold cold. Coughing, headache and fever are some of the symptoms that can be seen when you are sick with a cold. In addition, patients with viral colds may also experience some muscle aches and pains, weakness and fatigue. In viral colds, there is nasal congestion, but there is no runny nose like in wind-cold colds.
The duration of symptoms is also very different between a viral cold and a simple cold. Whereas a cold or flu usually resolves in two or three days, the symptoms of a viral cold or flu can take a long time to resolve. Viral symptoms may last as long or as short as the patient's own immune system. Patients with better health may be able to recover in two or three days without medication. And the body is relatively poor, the body's immune function is poor patients, may be after a week of medication, the symptoms still will not be reduced, and even many people in the hanging bottle ten days after the symptoms are gradually reduced.
When you have a cold fever, it is better to get rid of the fever, usually for 1~2 days, or no fever at all. In viral colds, the fever lasts longer, and some patients with viral colds may have recurring fevers, and if the virus is more persistent, some patients may even have a fever for a week or so.
From the point of view of these two manifestations, viral colds are more serious than wind-cold colds. In terms of treatment, wind-cold colds are mainly focused on driving out the cold. Some people get cold, resulting in wind-cold cold. Such patients drink a bowl of ginger soup, and then covered with a thick blanket to sleep, after a sweat, the cold symptoms basically disappeared. The viral cold may be more serious, simply drink ginger soup to drive cold, the viral cold is basically ineffective. Many people after drinking ginger soup after sweating fever subsided, but after a short time, will soon again fever. Therefore, in the treatment of viral colds, should be based on antiviral.