What Is a Summer Cold?

Summer cold Chinese medicine is also called summer wet cold, which is different from winter cold and cold wind. The cold cold mainly feels the evil of the cold. Fengreganmao feels the evil of wind and heat, and there are many in spring. The characteristics of the cold of summer heat are that the summer is sweltering and the humidity is relatively high. At this time, it is better to be greedy and cold, such as blowing air conditioners and feeling the evil of wind and cold. Symptomatically, the symptoms of cold, cold, and cold are all nasal congestion, runny nose, and fever. The difference is that wind cold and wind cold often occur in autumn and winter and spring and autumn. They are mild in fever and severe in cold. The cold of summer heat is a cold that is unique to summer, which is commonly known as hot cold. The traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of summer colds and colds mainly uses Qingshu Qushi prescriptions. Common Chinese patent medicines include Qushu pills, Shushi cold pills, Jinyi Qushu pills, Huoxiangzhengqi pills, Qingshu Yiqi pills, and pediatric Shuganning syrup. For the hot and cold, Qingre Shengjin therapy is used. Commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines include the hot and cold medicine, Qingliang granule, and Yinhuang injection.

Basic Information

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Common causes

The human body feels the evil of summer heat and dampness, and because it likes to cool down and drink cold, it makes the body's summer heat dampened by wind and cold, and the drainage is blocked.

Common symptoms

Cough thick sputum, runny nose, sweating and no fever

Causes of summer colds

The cause of the cold is that the human body feels the evil of the summer heat, and because it likes to cool down and drink cold, the heat in the body is restrained by the wind and cold, and the drainage is blocked. The disease is located on the surface of the muscles and the spleen and stomach in the middle focus, so the symptoms are fever but not raised, and the head and body are heavy; inside is chest tightness, spleen and stomach discomfort, digestive dysfunction, pulse number, dry mouth. Do not drink too much, although the tongue coating is greasy and less yellow. If you suffer from dampness due to heat and dampness, you may have cough, phlegm, and runny nose.

Colds due to hot summers are caused by prolonged drought and severe heat, and they are pure symptoms of sun fever. An important feature of this type of cold is the prominent thermal image, which is a type of severe symptoms in the four seasons cold. Due to the heat of the summer, it invades the lung health, heats the muscle surface, and consumes energy. Therefore, symptoms such as fever, mild cold, cold, sweating, fever, upset, thirst, yellow fur, and large and floating pulses appear. .

Many people generally refer to the cold in summer as "hot cold". In fact, in addition to the cold in summer, there is also a type of summer cold. Hot colds occur all year round, and the hot and cold colds only "take the risk" in midsummer. Knowing the types of colds in the summer can help you cure the disease as soon as possible.

Clinical manifestations of summer cold

1. Heat, cold, cough, thick sputum, thick runny nose

The main clinical symptoms of a hot and cold are: fever, occasional fear of wind, dry sweat outlets, sore throat, thick runny nose, thick cough and sputum, thin tongue coating, and the pulse pattern is mainly floating or several pulses.

2. Features of a cold, sweaty sweat and no fever

The humidity in southern China is relatively heavy, especially in summer, if a hot cold is mixed with moisture, it will form a summer cold. Where the humidity is heavier, the human body is more susceptible to external evils. The cold of summer heat is not the same as the common cold. The main clinical symptoms are: the daily heat increases significantly in the afternoon, the heat remains unchanged after sweating, dizziness, brain weight, burnout, upset, dry chest, nausea, yellow tongue greas , Urine output is small and yellow.

Differential diagnosis of summer cold

Nasopharyngeal symptoms begin to appear in the hot summer cold. The patient had itchy and uncomfortable nasopharynx, nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, and fear of wind. The snot was initially watery, but it became thicker after 2 to 3 days, followed by fever, cough, sore throat, and discomfort in the limbs. The course of fever is 3 to 7 days. Fever cold should be distinguished from the following diseases:

Allergic rhinitis

It is clinically very similar to "cold", except that allergic rhinitis has rapid onset, itchy nasal cavity, frequent sneezing, and watery snot. The attack is related to sudden changes in environment or temperature. Sometimes abnormal odor can be induced. Healed in 1 to 2 hours.

2. Influenza and flu

Often there is a clear epidemic. Onset is acute, systemic symptoms are severe, high fever, sore body, and inflammation of the eye and conjunctiva are obvious, but the symptoms of the nasopharynx are mild.

3. Precursors of Acute Infectious Diseases

Symptoms such as measles, polio, encephalitis, etc., often have symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection in the early stages of the disease. In the epidemic season or epidemic area of these diseases, if there are symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, you should promptly seek medical treatment.

4. Heatstroke

Some people confuse heatstroke with cold and cold. Due to the cold category, the hot and cold virus has obvious cold symptoms such as fever, nasal congestion, and runny nose. Although heat stroke has fever, there are no other cold symptoms. This is the fundamental difference between the two. Both colds and heat strokes get wet in the middle of the heat, so both will show the same gastrointestinal symptoms, such as bloating, diarrhea, and loss of appetite.

The external causes of heatstroke are obvious, and they are often produced by working in high temperature environments. The heat and cold are different. The main cause is that the human body feels cold and heat, and the external causes are not obvious. In addition, the course of the hot and cold flu is lingering, and most of them require several days of treatment before they can be cured; heatstroke develops rapidly and recovers quickly, and the symptoms can usually be eliminated within 1 to 2 days.

Treatment of summer cold syndrome

Hot summer

(1) Symptoms include excessive sweating, thirst and upset, short urination, fatigue, lack of energy, loss of energy, and pulse deficiency.

(2) Governance is to clear the heat and nourish yin, nourish yin and promote health.

(3) Wang's Qingshu Yiqi Decoction.

(4) Prescription medicine American ginseng, bamboo leaves, Coptis chinensis, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicum, Zhimu, licorice, japonica, lotus stem, and watermelon green clothes.

2.Severe cold

(1) Symptoms include headache, faintness, chest tightness, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.

(2) The rule is to explain the dampness, qi and neutrality.

(3) The main prescription Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill.

(4) Prescriptions Huoxiang, Poria, Dabeli, Basil leaves, Amaranth, orange peel, platycodon, atractylodes, ginger magnolia, French pinellia, licorice and so on.

Summer cold prevention

1. Caution for using air conditioner

In summer, the air conditioner is turned on too fast, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is too large, which often causes a cold. It is recommended to reduce the time in the air-conditioned room, and it is most appropriate to control the difference between the temperature of the air-conditioned room and the outdoor temperature by 4 ° C; even if the air-conditioning is turned on, the room should be ventilated in a timely manner.

2. Wash your hands often

Studies have shown that the touch of the hand is most susceptible to the virus. Of the droplets from cold patients, only 8% have a cold virus, and most of the virus is still transmitted by hand. For example, if a healthy person touches the place where the patient has touched, if they touch their nose and eyes, they will catch a cold. For this reason, an effective way to prevent colds is to wash your hands frequently, and try to touch your eyes and nose with as few hands as possible.

3. Medicine and Food Prevention

In summer, you should usually eat a light diet, avoid cold and spicy food, and maintain a good attitude and strengthen your own resistance. People with poor health can take Chinese herbal medicines such as Daqingye and Banlangen to prevent colds. In daily foods, garlic, ginger, shallots, and vinegar also have strange effects in preventing and treating colds.