The common cold is the most common acute respiratory infectious disease, with adults suffering from the common cold an average of 2-6 times per year and children an average of 6-8 times. Once you have a cold, you will experience uncomfortable symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, fever, sore throat, cough and generalized pain. Most patients will apply anti-cold medicines.

The main ingredients of cold and flu remedies

Most of the cold remedies currently available on the market are compounded ingredients, which are mainly used to relieve clinical symptoms. Commonly used ingredients include decongestants (such as pseudoephedrine, used to relieve cold-induced nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing and other symptoms), anti-allergics (such as chlorpheniramine, i.e., paracetamol, loratadine, which helps to alleviate the symptoms of runny nose, sneezing), antitussives (such as dextromethorphan, codeine, etc., which can inhibit the cough center to produce cough suppression), expectorants (such as aminobromine, guaiacolglyceryl ether, etc., which can reduce the viscosity of phlegm and promote the expulsion of phlegm), antipyretic and analgesics (such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc., by inhibiting prostatic Expectorants (such as ambroxol, guaiacol glyceryl ether, etc., can reduce the viscosity of sputum and promote the expectoration of sputum), antipyretic and analgesic drugs (such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc., can reduce fever by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, and produce analgesic effect by blocking the pain sensory terminal nerve).

Take these cold and flu remedies with care

1 Cold and flu medicines are only symptomatic and do not shorten the course of the disease

Most common colds are caused by viruses, commonly rhinoviruses, and are self-limiting. Colds without complications usually resolve in 5-7 days. The application of cold medicine does not shorten the duration of the illness, but only relieves the discomfort.

2 Avoid multiple co-administrations to avoid double dosing

As cold medicines are often compound preparations, a variety of joint easily lead to the superposition of the same ingredients, resulting in excessive dosage of toxic side effects. The other day, the media had reported that 27-year-old graduate students mixed cold medicine death is the result of repeated overdose.

3 Avoid driving and working at heights after taking cold medicine

Chlorpheniramine and phenylephrine in cold medicines have anticholinergic effects, and their effects on the central nervous system can cause drowsiness and drowsiness. Therefore, avoid driving and working at height after taking the medicine to avoid danger.

4 Use cold and flu remedies with caution in patients with underlying medical conditions

Cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine (which can raise blood pressure) are contraindicated in patients with severe high blood pressure or heart disease, and cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine or chlorpheniramine (which can cause difficulty in urination) need to be used with caution in elderly male patients with an enlarged prostate.

In addition to symptomatic treatment with medication, the common cold also requires proper rest, drinking plenty of water, eating a light diet, and maintaining nasal, pharyngeal, and oral hygiene, which will help the disease recover.

Cold remedies are all symptomatic, which means that you choose to use whatever type of cold remedy you have. Don't take them when your symptoms go away.

For example, take fever reducing medicines such as Amrica when you have a fever. Take appropriate anti-allergic cold medicines, such as cold capsules, when you have a cold, sneezing, or watery eyes. When coughing, take cold medicines with cough suppressant effect, such as Ma Xing Cough Tablets. If a cold is accompanied by cough and phlegm, it is necessary to take cough suppressants and phlegm medicines, such as cough syrup of Sichuan shellfish. If there is an infection, antibiotics are needed, but a doctor's prescription is required.

Cold itself can heal itself. Therefore, more rest, fewer late nights, more water and a proper light diet can all contribute to a quick recovery from a cold.

Cold and flu medicines are divided into Chinese and Western medicines. Personally, I think it is safer and more convenient to choose proprietary Chinese medicines when the symptoms are relatively mild, while synthetic Chinese and western cold medicines can be used when the symptoms are a little more severe. For more severe cases, you should consult a doctor in time to prevent more serious illnesses from occurring.

Hello, it's an honor to answer your questions.

Many people go to the pharmacy to buy cold and flu medicines, and when they see all the cold and flu medicines available, they don't know which one to buy. Which one is more suitable?

We all know that cold remedies generally only relieve cold symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, cough, nasal congestion and headache. Therefore, when choosing a cold remedy, it is important to know in detail the ingredients of a particular cold remedy.

Let me tell you about the main ingredients of anti-cold remedies.

Antipyretic and Analgesic Ingredients: The antipyretic and analgesic ingredient of most anticold medicines is acetaminophen, which is mainly used for cold and fever, arthralgia, neuralgia and migraine.

Cough suppressant ingredients: mainly dextromethorphan, which plays a centralized cough suppressant effect through the inhibition of the medullary cough center, mainly used for dry cough without phlegm, phlegm is used with caution. Some cold medicines are also added to the cough, expectorant, asthma, antihistamine effect of the dioxopromazine.

Antihistamine ingredients: In order to reduce the respiratory tract and tear duct secretion to relieve allergic symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, and throat itching, antihistamine ingredients such as chlorpheniramine maleate and diphenhydramine are often added to anti-cold medicines.

Reduce nasal congestion components: patients with nasal congestion can choose anti-cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, ephedrine components of the drug to eliminate nasopharyngeal mucosal congestion, swelling, reduce the symptoms of nasal congestion.

Expectorant ingredients: mucus secretion promotion drug guaifenesin glycerol ether and ammonium chloride, etc. Mucous phlegm solubilizing drug acetylcysteine, etc.

Due to the complexity of the ingredients of anti-cold medicines, when choosing anti-cold medicines, they must be selected in combination with the patient's clinical and drug ingredients. If the patient's main symptoms are runny nose, watery eyes, itchy throat and other clinical symptoms, you should choose antihistamines and reduce nasal congestion components of the anti-cold medicine. If the patient manifests headache, fever, body aches and other symptoms, should choose anticold medicines containing antipyretic and analgesic ingredients.

Taking anti-flu medicine should also pay attention to the adverse effects of drugs, if accompanied by severe hypertension, coronary heart disease patients, be careful with drugs containing pseudoephedrine; in addition, drivers, patients working at heights prohibit the use of drugs containing antihistamine ingredients, and so on.

I wish you a speedy recovery!

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Should I take decongestants or antihistamines?

It depends on what bothers you. If you have a blocked nose and sinus congestion, a decongestant may help. It can be used alone or in combination with antihistamines. Keep in mind, however, that it may increase your heart rate and may cause anxiety or make it difficult to sleep. If you have a runny nose or sneezing, try taking an antihistamine. Some types of people may take Benadryl, which can make you drowsy. Be careful if you need to drive or use machines. Also try a non-sedating antihistamine, which will not make you sleepy.

Hypertension, is it safe to take decongestants?

Decongestants, such as pseudoephedrine and phenylephrine, can raise your blood pressure and heart rate. If you have high blood pressure, it is best to consult your doctor or pharmacist to find out what is appropriate.

How to choose a medicine from the cough syrup category in a cold?

Not all doctors agree on the best way to treat a cough. Some don't think cough medicines are that effective.

There are three common types of over-the-counter cough and cold remedies:

• Cough suppressants
• oral expectorant
• Topical (cream or gel applied to the skin)

They can be used to stop coughing or loosen sticky mucus to help you cough. If that's not enough, your doctor may prescribe a strong cough suppressant.

Hello, first of all it depends on your cold. If it is not serious, just some local symptoms, such as coughing, phlegm, nasal discharge, etc., and the general condition is good, and there is no other disease that affects the resistance, and within a week, then you can through rest, drink more water to fight through. Most of the colds are viral infections, which can be overcome in a week or so.

If the period of aggravation, fever and other conditions, it is recommended to go to the hospital, routine blood tests, chest X-ray, to see whether the combination of bacterial infection, lung infection, because the latter situation treatment may require antibiotics, and the treatment time is longer. If the bacterial infection is determined, not particularly heavy can take some anti-inflammatory drugs, such as cephalosporin, azithromycin, etc., if serious, infusion treatment.

If you want to use proprietary Chinese medicine, then go to a Chinese medicine practitioner to see if it is wind-heat or wind-cold, and then choose the appropriate cold and flu granules to treat it, because I am a Western medicine practitioner, so I will not expand on this point.

If it is very severe, or infected with influenza, or a fever of about 40 degrees, then a blood culture can be done, and the bacteria may have entered the bloodstream, at which point, on the one hand, empirically choose a broad-spectrum antibiotic to infuse, and wait for the results of the blood culture to come back, and then adjust the level of antibiotics.

Thanks for the invite, and feel free to reach out to me if you don't understand anything, or have any other questions.

According to the change of seasons, the symptoms of cold and flu are also different, such as winter is mostly wind-cold, spring is mostly wind-heat, summer is mostly heat-dampness, fall is mostly dryness, and rainy season is mostly dampness. Only when you know the symptoms can you use the right medicine.

Feeling the wind, because wind is the first of the six evils, when the climate changes suddenly, cold and warmth is not normal, it is most likely to hurt the lungs and lead to disorders and the onset of disease. Insufficient positive qi, the coupling is not solid, living habits are not normal, cold and warm disorders orfatigueAfter that, the coupling is loose.lack of firmness of the guardian qi (TCM)The first is that all of them are susceptible to illnesses caused by external evils.

1. Wind-cold type: heavy cold, fever, no sweating, headache and body pain.a blocked noseHeavy voice, runny nose, cough with thin sputum, thin white tongue coating, floating tight pulse.

2. Wind-heat type: fever with a slight malignant wind, or with sweating and headache.a blocked noseSnot and turbidity, redness, swelling and pain in the throat, cough with yellow sputum, dry mouth and thirst, thin yellow tongue coating, floating pulse.

3、Summer-damp type: mostlysummer coldIn addition to the superficial evidence, it is common to have body heat and little sweat, or sweat heat without relief, heartburn, thirst, short urine, red, chest tightness, generalized evil, dizziness and swelling, yellow tongue coating, pulse moistening and counting.

4,weak and cold (medicine)genus (taxonomy)lacking in vitalityIf you are a patient, you will seechills and feverThe symptoms include headache and nasal congestion, cough with white sputum, tiredness and weakness, shortness of breath and laziness, pale tongue, and floating and weak pulse. Yin deficiency is characterized by headache and body heat, slight aversion to wind and cold, headache, heartburn, dry thirst and throat, heat in the hands and feet, dry cough with little phlegm, red tongue, floating and fine pulse.

"Sensation" is an epiphenomenon, and the general rule of treatment should be to dispel the evils by relieving the symptoms of the disease. If it belongs to wind-cold, it is appropriate to relieve the surface with pungent warmth; if it belongs to wind-heat, it is appropriate to relieve the surface with pungent coolness; if it belongs to summer-dampness, it is appropriate to relieve summer heat and dampness; if it belongs to deficiency, it is appropriate to support the positive and eliminate the evil.

1, wind-cold type: pungent and warm to resolve the table. Thorny anti-septic powder: 12 grams of thorn mustard, 10 grams of windbreak, 8 grams of Su Ye, 8 grams of almonds, 3 grams of ginger, 10 grams of Platycodon grandiflorus, 6 grams of Chenpi, 6 grams of Qiangwu, and 3 grams of licorice. If the surface cold is heavy, add 8 grams of ephedra and 6 grams of cinnamon sticks; if it is accompanied by dampness, add 10 grams of Cangzhu, 8 grams of Houpu and 6 grams of Faxia.

2, wind-heat type: pungent and cool to resolve the table. Yin Qiao San: 10 grams of silver flowers, 10 grams of forsythia, 8 grams of thorns, 8 grams of burdock, 12 grams of bamboo leaves, 8 grams of rehmannia, 3 grams of peppermint (later), 8 grams of platycodonopsis, 6 grams of licorice. If wind-heat is heavy, add 12g of Pueraria lobata, 8g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 12g of Gypsum, 8g of pollen; if dampness is caught, add 10g of Huo Xiang, 8g of Pelargonium.

3, summer dampness: clearing summer dampness and relieving the surface. Newly added Elsholtzia cited: 12 grams of silver flowers, 10 grams of forsythia, 10 grams of Elsholtzia, 8 grams of lentil flowers, 8 grams of Houpu, 12 grams of slippery stone, 6 grams of licorice. If the summer heat is all over, add 8g of Scutellaria baicalensis and 10g of Gardenia jasminoides; if the dampness is prevalent, add 8g of Poria, 10g of Cangzhu and 8g of Faxia.

4. Colds with deficiency: Colds with deficiency of qi: benefit the qi and relieve the symptoms. Ginseng-Su Drink: 15g of Codonopsis pilosula, 10g of Poria, 10g of Sophora, 8g of Radix et Rhizoma Pinelliae, 8g of Radix et Rhizoma Platycodonis, 6g of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, 6g of Fazia, 10g of Citrus aurantium Citri Reticulatae, 8g of Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, 3g of Radix glycyrrhizae.

5, Yin deficiency cold: nourish Yin and relieve the surface. Weiwei soup: 15 can of bamboo, Platycodon grandiflorus 10 grams, 12 grams of light bean drum, 3 grams of mint (after the next), 8 grams of white vetch, 8 grams of thorns, 10 grams of maitake, 3 grams of licorice.

All of the above are symptomatic treatment of Chinese medicine soup, although nowadays there are many proprietary Chinese medicines, but the amount of medicine is fixed ingredients, while Chinese medicine soup will be added or subtracted according to the changes in the condition of the drug ingredients, compared to proprietary Chinese medicines are more harmless to the kidneys.

In addition to medication, the following can be used to aid in treatment and provide relief.

1. Take the purple skin garlic 1 clove, cut it into slices, in the Hundred Points (the top of the head in the center), solar plexus points (located in the eyebrow outside the depression), Fengchi points (head back of the neck on both sides of the depression), Yingxiang points (nose on both sides of the depression), Hegu points (located in the back of the hand between the first and second metacarpal bone, favoring the side of the forefinger) massage for 5 minutes, and then in the Yongquan points (in the human heart of the foot, is located in the front of the foot in the recesses of the second, third toe toe seam grain The first third of the line connecting the head end and the heel of the foot) is massaged for 15 minutes, which can cure the beginning of cold.

2. Nasal congestion, available thumb and forefinger clip the nose root on both sides of the force downward massage 50 to 60 times, massage finger force moderate, should not be too heavy and too fast, every morning and evening to do 1 time.

3. With the middle fingers of both hands on both sides of the nose groove, with the fingertips and palms on the down and back gently rubbing the face, so that the face is hot, can dispel wind and cold.

4. The use of hair dryers to blow on the solar plexus and wind pool points, the effect of which is the same as rubbing or moxibustion of the solar plexus and wind pool points, can play a heat to drive away the cold, to relieve the symptoms of colds (e.g., headaches).

(Disclaimer: The combination of medication described below is only a routine or general selection, patients should be used according to their own actual situation. After taking 1~2 days, the symptoms of physical discomfort still can not be relieved, should go to the hospital in time for diagnosis and treatment, do not delay the condition!)

Hello, I am a medical staff member who has been working in a hospital for many years and is a state licensed pharmacist and would be honored to answer your questions.

How to take cold and flu medicine correctly, let's put it another way "how tomore symptomatics to take cold medicine." In fact, colds are a very common type of disease in our daily life. The onset of the world generally in the early winter period or the alternation of heat and cold, the temperature difference is too large. If from the western medicine, generally divided into viral cold or bacterial cold two kinds. In western medicine, it is generally categorized as either viral or bacterial colds. Of course, in the case of medication, we will choose some cold medicine or add anti-inflammatory drugs for the condition, and if there is fever, we will also add antipyretic drugs, etc. (of course, we have to exclude some complications), which is a bit obscure. So in order to let readers understand the classification of cold and flu more intuitively, we start fromChinese Medicine PerspectiveTo cut to the chase. Take a look at the classification of common colds and the corresponding medicines from a TCM perspective.

1. Wind-cold flu:This is the type of illness suffered because of the cold. Clinical manifestations of wind-cold flu are commonlyheadaches、a blocked nose、chilliness、runny nose、phlegm、white tongueetc. Pungent, warm and antidepressant drugs should be chosen. For proprietary Chinese medicines, Tongxuanli Lung Pills and Xiao Chaihu Granules can be chosen; western medicines can be used in combination with Compound Aminophenolamine Tablets, Vitamin C and Banlangen Granules.

2. Wind-heat colds:This is the type of cold that is caused by the patient's feeling of heat. Clinical manifestations of wind-heat colds commonly includeSevere fever、The patient may feel cold.、Nasal mucus appears yellow or sticky、xerostomia (drying of the mouth)、yellow tongueetc. You can choose pungent and cool medicines that relieve the epidermis and clear heat from the lungs. Common choices include Yinjiao antidote tablets plus Shuanghuanglian capsules, vitamin C, and Sangju cold and flu tablets.

3. Influenza:This disease type is mainly caused by the influenza virus. The virus is heat-insensitive, resistant to cold and dryness, and is inhibited by ultraviolet light. The most common clinical type is the influenza A virus, which is highly susceptible to pandemics because it mutates frequently and is highly contagious and spreads rapidly.

Influenza manifests itself asonset of illness is rapid、The temperature rises very rapidly.withbody ache、loss of appetiteSymptoms such as. Medicines are available such as cold and flu capsules with vitamin C and anti-viral oral solution.

4. Summer-heat type of cold:This type of disease is mainly due to the patient's prolonged drought and heat, and belongs to the pure Yang-heat syndrome. The clinical manifestations of summer-heat type colds commonly includedistention in the head (TCM)、have a headache、have the runs、腹痛、insipid、fever and fear of coldetc. It is advisable to clear away heat to remove heatstroke. Medicines can choose Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Oral Liquid, Jin Mei Cold Tablet.

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Cold and flu take the wrong medicine, the condition changes for the worse? Cold and fever should be categorized into different types and the right medicine should be prescribed to achieve the effect.

Now that we are in the middle of the flu season, colds and fevers are very common. Generally speaking, colds are self-limiting and can be cured within a week or so. However, in order to shorten the treatment time and alleviate the discomfort caused by cold and fever, many people will take medication to treat the problem of cold and fever.

But after all, the use of medication, if you do not understand the category of their own cold, irrational use of medication, is to aggravate their own conditions, resulting in adding insult to injury.

To treat colds and fevers, we must first distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat colds.

Wind-cold flu:Wind-cold cold is caused by the invasion of cold into the human body, the human body will show fear of cold and cold, and white phlegm, the treatment needs to be to promote the lungs to disperse cold.

Generally speaking, wind-cold and flu are mostly seen in the season of lower temperature, more often appear in the season of lower temperature, easy to appear in some overworked, low immunity of the people.

The usual symptoms are frequent sneezing, runny nose, white phlegm, fear of cold, and in severe cases, cough and fever.

The key to treating wind-cold and cold is to disperse wind and cold to promote lung health. Xiao Chaihu Granules is a common Chinese medicine for treating wind-cold and cold. （Xiao Chaihu Granules (Baiyunshan), with the functions of dispersing heat from the surface of the body, dispersing the liver and harmonizing the stomach, can be used to treat wind-cold cold and flu, which is an exogenous disease in which evils are found in the lesser yang. The so-called exogenous disease, refers to the phase fire upward reversal, the body departments can not function properly, easy to trigger the invasion of foreign evils, resulting in cold and hot, chest and hypochondriac pain and fullness, loss of appetite, heartburn and nausea, bitter mouth and dry throat, and the role of Xiao Chaihu is to restore our body immunity to normal, so that the body's "departments" function properly to defend against foreign enemies, and naturally the cold will be improved. The effect of Xiao Chai Hu is to restore our body's immunity to normal, so that the body's "departments" can function properly and defend against external enemies.

Wind-heat colds:Wind-heat cold, symptomatic throat swelling and coughing yellow sputum, need to purge the lungs and clear heat. Wind-heat colds mostly occur in the flu season, for the heat evil invasion of the human body caused by the main symptoms of headache, sore throat, fever, fever, cough with yellow sputum, yellow snot and so on.

The key to treating wind-heat colds is to clear the wind and purge the lungs, so patients can purge the lungs by drinking more water and eating lighter foods, such as cabbage, white radish, pears and oranges. In the treatment of wind-heat colds, steamed pear with shellac and saxifrage is also a good choice.

It is important to note that if wind-cold cold is not treated in time, the evil will enter the body "inside" and turn into heat, leading to the manifestation of wind-heat cold symptoms.

The wind-heat cold for a long time, it will lead to their immunity to decline, easy to infect the wind-cold cold, so repeated vicious cycle. Therefore, when there is a wind-cold or wind-heat cold, it should be treated in time and should not be delayed.

You have to follow your doctor's instructions on how to take it.

For cold remedies, I would recommend consulting with a pharmacy or doctor to give them a dosage of cold remedies to take in conjunction with your own reality.

And you have to follow the information on the top of the medicine to take it on time, not more or less, otherwise none of it will be effective.

We will actually feel, after taking the amount of medicine, did not see any improvement, in fact, this is the need to give medicines time, generally adhere to the medicine 2-3 days will have an effect, there is no medicine can be an instant effect.

And drink more water, do 5 minutes to the toilet, basically after a night will be good. Drinking water can detoxify the body, but people with renal insufficiency can't use this method. If it is inflamed, you need to find a doctor to give you some antibiotics.

1. Cold and flu medicines should be taken only one at a time

There are a lot of people who eat cold medicine, think more than a few drugs may be good fast, so several kinds of anti-inflammatory drugs mixed with eat, in fact, this is a big mistake. Any kind of drug if more than the human body to withstand the scope, then it will jeopardize the health of the body, and several kinds of cold medicine and antipyretic drugs when taking a mixture, then the body intake of acetaminophen excess, it may cause acute liver dysfunction, so it is best to eat a kind of cold medicine as appropriate.

2. Read the instructions carefully

Before taking medication, you should carefully check the date of manufacture and shelf life of the medication, the dosage, method and frequency of each dose, and should not take medication indiscriminately. When a drug is labeled "cool" in the instruction manual, it means that it should be kept at a temperature not exceeding 20 degrees Celsius, and when it is labeled "cold", it means that it should be kept at a temperature between 2 and 10 degrees Celsius.