It’s that time of the year when colds are common in spring and summer, and when you take a closer look, many of the girls around you are getting colds one after another. The cold is a very common disease, almost everyone has encountered, poor health of friends a year several times a cold is not a problem. So in the face of the cold, will only say so a painless “drink more hot water”? The first thing you need to do is to make sure that your girlfriend has a cold.
First of all, you need to understand what types of colds there are, so you can prescribe the right medicine.
What are the general types of colds? What do I need to pay attention to?
According to Chinese medicine, colds can be divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds, but the symptoms of wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds are completely different.
The wind-cold cold manifests itself as fear of cold, chills, fever, clear sputum and itchy throat, which can be simply interpreted as catching a chill from the wind. This time you can encourage more clothes to avoid getting cold again by blowing wind and rain, diet should not eat cold drinks, cool fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, pear, bitter melon should also be avoided, brown sugar ginger tea can come in handy here.
While the wind-heat cold manifests itself with a pronounced fever, sore throat, yellow sputum, which may be accompanied by a hoarse voice and dry stools. It is also a bit related to what we usually call “fire”.
So if someone around you has a cold, how should we go about comforting them and offering helpful advice?
1.Get more rest
When people get a cold, their resistance drops and they naturally don’t have as much energy as usual, and that’s when sleep is the best cold medicine. Resting and sleeping at home not only relieves the discomfort of a cold, but also prevents the spread of the cold to others.
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Take some vitamin C
Whether it’s through vitamin supplements, or eating more vitamin C-rich fruit, it can help relieve a cold. You can judge the vitamin C content of fruits by their acidity. Fruits with a heavy acidity generally have a higher vitamin C content, such as oranges, oranges, lemons, kiwis, and grapefruit.
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Dry air in the fall and winter or in the summer in an air-conditioned room can make the respiratory tract feel uncomfortable, and a humidifier can be placed in the room when you have a cold to allow for better breathing and relieve cold symptoms.
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When you have a cold, everyone knows to drink plenty of hot water. In addition, hot soup and hot porridge are both good choices during a cold, especially for some people who have no appetite when they have a cold, and liquid food is more acceptable. Whether it’s hot water or hot porridge, steam can also relieve nasal congestion brought on by a cold.
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Usually, adults with a cold can get better in as little as 3 days if they don’t take medicine, or 7 to 10 days on their own if they are slow. If you feel uncomfortable, you can properly target symptoms such as a runny nose, cough, or fever with the right medicine.
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For a cold with a sore throat, you can choose to gargle with light salt water and take some throat lozenges; for a cough, choose cough syrup; for a runny nose, use hot steam to clear the nose, etc.
All in all, if you have a cold, rest and water are the most important, and you can take the right medicine to relieve the symptoms, and you can also pay more attention to your diet and living to get well soon.