The difference between a cold cough and a hot cough is the difference in cause, treatment and performance.

1, caused by different causes

Cold cough is generally due to the feeling of wind and cold, caused by the body of the wind and cold bundled lungs, resulting in the human body cough, mostly in winter and spring;? Hot cough, is caused by lung heat caused by repeated coughing, more common in summer and fall. For example, excessive consumption of hot foods, such as fried, barbecue food.

2, the treatment method is different

Cold cough treatment needs to warm the lungs to stop coughing, such as warm lung drink; hot cough treatment needs to clear the heat to stop coughing, such as Qingkailing oral liquid, emergency syrup, and so on. Parents in the use of some of the methods of treatment of cold cough at the same time, should also pay attention to the nature of the cold food can not let the child eat. When treating a hot cough, it is not advisable to eat spicy, high-calorie foods, spicy food is easy to fire.

3, the performance is different

Cold cough manifested as sputum color white, foamy, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, or accompanied by cold, chills, no sweating, pale red tongue, thin white moss, pulse floating tight. Hot cough is characterized by dry and itchy throat, dry cough with little phlegm or phlegm yellow and sticky, not easy to cough up, dry and painful throat, thirst, often accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, red tongue, thin yellow moss, floating or floating pulse.

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