Winter colds may cause symptoms such as purulent nose, congestion or sore throat, cough or high fever, and coughing of purulent sputum. The symptoms of a cold vary all year round. Seasonal cold refers to the wind-cold type cold in spring and autumn, and wind-heat type cold in summer and winter. Viral colds are prone to spring and autumn, bacterial colds are prone to summer, and atypical pathogen colds are prone to winter. Symptoms of colds in spring and autumn include clear nose, tears, dizziness, headache, sneezing, etc. Symptoms of a cold in summer include fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, etc. It is recommended that patients drink more boiled water, pay attention to rest, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits during the cold.
What should I eat after catching a cold?
1. Small amount of meals.
Loss of appetite after catching a cold, you can appropriately reduce the amount of each meal. In addition to three meals in the morning, noon and evening, you can add one meal at 10 am and 2 or 3 pm to ensure nutritional supply as much as possible. However, some people force themselves to eat hard in order to heal quickly in order to recover from the disease, which will lead to indigestion and fatigue. Because when the physical condition is poor, the spleen and stomach function is often weak.
2. Eat less crude fiber foods
During the cold, people's stomach motivation is weak, so they should try to eat less crude fiber foods that will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, such as celery, leeks, Chinese cabbage, etc. When you are hungry, it is recommended to eat more liquid or semi-liquid food, such as hot brown rice porridge, egg flower soup, lotus root paste, warm yogurt, and hot chicken soup that removes oil. As the condition improves and digestive function recovers, you can gradually transition to a normal diet.
3. Fish meat supplement protein through eggs
When the human body is relatively weak, the digestive fluid secretes less. It is recommended to supplement high-quality protein through eggs and fish meat. They are relatively easy to digest and contain a variety of essential amino acids for the human body, which is conducive to enhancing the body's resistance to cold viruses. Boiled eggs, steamed egg custard with milk, poached eggs with fermented glutinous rice, and steamed fish are all good choices.
4. Use good drinks to clear heat and remove fire
Patients with colds are often accompanied by fever and sweating, and some will take anti-skin drugs, which consumes a lot of water. Therefore, be sure to drink water in time and don’t wait until you are thirsty. Drinking water is mainly made of a lot of warm boiled water, or you can add appropriate amount of honey or homemade fruit juice to the water. If your throat is red and swollen, you can drink some lily wolfberry millet porridge, lily pear water, stewed pears with rock sugar, fresh sugar cane juice, and fresh horseshoe juice to help clear heat and remove fire.
5. Don’t fry less sweets
Whether it is high-sugar fruits such as mango, grapes, lychees, sugarcane, pineapple, or desserts or snacks, everyone should eat less during the cold. Sweet foods not only increase the secretion and viscosity of phlegm, but also easily lead to abdominal distension and suppress appetite. In addition, fried foods will make the fragile gastrointestinal function more disordered. It is not advisable to eat instant noodles, potato chips, fried chicken and other fried foods during colds. Spicy and irritating foods such as pepper and curry are very unfavorable to the respiratory mucosa, so you should eat less or not.
Finally, let’s talk about how to treat a cold.
Most of the colds in winter are wind-heat, which belongs to the "external fever" mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine, so patients basically show internal heat. The red throat and light cough at the beginning of the disease are the manifestations of the accumulation of heat and toxins in the body in the upper respiratory tract. As for the influenza, it is manifested as fever or high fever, sore throat, and cough from the beginning, which is also the manifestation of heat and toxins in the body and attacking the lungs. In the newly launched "Influenza Diagnosis and Treatment Plan (2018 Edition Revised Edition)" by the National Health Commission, it is also pointed out that most influenza patients mainly manifest as wind-heat invasion of the health syndrome, and the more serious the heat phenomenon is that the lung syndrome is heat-toxin attacking, which shows that the authoritative opinion of the academic community also believes that influenza is an exogenous fever disease, and Lianhua Qingwen is used as a recommended medicine. The national diagnosis and treatment plans and guidelines for colds, influenza and other related diagnosis and treatment were recommended 17 times as the prevention and treatment of drugs, which played an important role in the prevention and treatment of viral respiratory infectious diseases in my country.
Lianhua Qingwen Capsules were guided by the theory of collateral diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. They were created by Maxing Shigan Decoction by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, Wu Youke, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Jutong, a warm disease scientist in the Qing Dynasty, and the famous prescription Yinqiao Powder for treating warm and fever diseases, and added Rhodiola, a "warm-tonifying holy medicine", and were created in combination with modern pharmacological research.Among the main pharmaceutical ingredients of Lianhua Qingwen Capsules, Guanzhong, isatis root, honeysuckle, forsythia, gypsum, etc. can all clear the heat inside. Rhubarb is a heavy agent for clearing fire. It can clear the fire poison in the body through the stool, thereby clearing the internal basis of influenza fever, so that the patient's body temperature will be stable and will not rebound after the fever subsides. Lianhua Qingwen Capsules contain Rhodiola, a cold-resistant and hypoxia-resistant plant in the Tibetan Plateau, which can enhance human immunity and improve disease resistance and recovery ability.
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