Today, we will teach you to quickly distinguish between a wind-cold and a wind-hot cold, so that you can find it early, and your child will suffer less!
Every year, the change of seasons is a high incidence of colds and flu, and epidemiology shows that the average adult suffers from colds and flu 2-6 times a year, while children have 6-8 times.
Generally speaking, in the fall and winter seasons, most of the children's colds are wind-cold, i.e., feel the wind-cold invasion, when in the summer, usually easy to be wind-heat colds, i.e., external wind-heat.
When a child has a cold, the nose will generally flow, if it is flowing with a clear nose, that is generally wind-cold cold;
If the nose is thicker, and some of the yellow, that is wind-heat cold.
Sometimes, the snot starts out clear and then becomes yellow, indicating that the child has an inflammatory disease.
Generally speaking, a cold and cough have sputum, if the child's sputum is relatively thin white, indicating that the wind-cold cold;
If the cough has a thick sputum, yellow thick, indicating that it is likely to be caused by the wind-heat cold.
Generally speaking, wind-cold cold does not hurt the throat, just dry cough, but there is no redness and swelling, etc.;
If it is a more painful throat, there is redness and swelling, and swallowing things hurts, it means it is wind-heat cold.
If the mouth is not dry when you have a cold, it means it is wind-cold cold;
If the mouth is dry, the child always wants to drink water and always feels thirsty, it means it is wind-heat cold.
Generally speaking, the wind-cold cold will be more obvious fear of cold, body temperature rise;
and the wind-heat cold fear of cold is not so obvious, or will not be afraid of cold. But if the child does not show it, you should pay more attention to see if he is cold.
Generally speaking, children with wind-cold colds do not sweat, do not sweat easily;
and wind-heat colds, often sweating.
1 The principle of cold and flu treatment is based on symptomatic treatment to shorten the duration of the disease and reduce the harm of cold and flu by rapidly improving or eliminating the symptoms of cold and flu; children with mild symptoms can take more water, more rest, indoor ventilation and other natural remedies, and some physical methods, such as physical hypothermia, softening nasal secretions with saline, clearing the nasal blockage and so on, to alleviate the symptoms of cold and flu. If the nose is blocked, you can use hot and cold towels to alternate between the two sides of the nose, and more nasal mucus should be cleaned up more.
2 Children with colds are best to use professional children's cold medicine, do not use adult cold medicine.
3 The prevention of colds, focusing on blocking the transmission channels.
4 Do not just give your baby antibiotics.
Most colds are viral infections, and the abuse of antibiotics is not only ineffective against viruses, but also very toxic to children's bodies.