Summer cold, also known as summer-dampness cold in TCM, is different from wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold in winter. Summer-damp cold is characterized by sultry summer and high humidity. At this time, everyone is greedy for cold, such as blowing air conditioning, and feels the evil of wind and cold. Wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds mostly occur in autumn, winter and spring and autumn, with mild fever and severe aversion to cold. Summer-damp cold is a unique cold in summer, which is also commonly known as common cold.

symptom

summer cold

The main clinical symptoms of a hot cold are: fever, occasional fear of wind, dry sweat outlet, sore throat, thick nasal discharge, cough with thick phlegm, thin tongue coating, and pulse condition mainly characterized by floating pulse or counting pulse.

Summer-dampness cold

Sweating does not reduce fever. The humidity in southern China is heavier, especially in summer. If a hot cold is mixed with moisture, it will form a summer-damp cold. The heavier the humidity, the more vulnerable the human body is to foreign pathogens and get sick. Summer-dampness cold is different from common cold, and its main clinical symptoms are: the fever increases obviously every afternoon, and the fever still does not decrease after sweating, dizziness, body weight fatigue, upset mouth, chest tightness and nausea, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and less and yellow urine. Summer heat, dampness, cold and heatstroke are all caused by the hot weather! Many people will confuse heatstroke with summer cold. Summer-damp cold belongs to the category of cold, which has obvious cold symptoms such as fever, stuffy nose and runny nose. Although heatstroke has fever, it has no other cold symptoms, which is the fundamental difference between the two. Both summer-dampness cold and heatstroke have the phenomenon of dampness in summer, so both of them will have the same gastrointestinal symptoms, such as bloating, diarrhea, loss of appetite and so on. The external cause of heatstroke is obvious, and most of them are born in a high temperature environment; Summer-dampness cold is different, its main cause is that the human body feels wind, cold and summer-dampness, and the external cause is not obvious. In addition, the course of summer-dampness cold is lingering, and most of them need several days of treatment to recover; The onset of heatstroke is acute and the recovery is fast, and the symptoms can be eliminated in general 1 2 days.