I have a cold, what should I avoid? Reminder: 2 types of food are best not to touch, 3 types of food are appropriate to eat more

Everyone is familiar with the disease "cold". You may have the experience of buying medicines in pharmacies in the past.

This may be because there is no distinction between different types of colds, and if there is no dialectical treatment, it may make the condition worse. So, how do we judge whether it is a common cold based on symptoms? How to prevent the common cold?

1. Check the following major symptoms to determine whether you have a cold or not? ==================================================================================

Cold, clinically called "acute upper respiratory tract infection", in the view of traditional Chinese medicine, cold can be divided into wind-heat cold, wind-cold cold and heat-damp cold. Different types of colds have different symptoms:

Cold and flu:

There will be fever, accompanied by a slight aversion to cold, but poor sweating, obvious headache symptoms, dry mouth, and upset; nasal congestion, runny nose, and the color of the nasal mucus is yellow ;

Throat is red, swollen and painful , which often occurs when you are about to suffer from wind heat and cold; cough with sputum, and the color of sputum is usually yellow and sticky ;

The tongue coating is thin and yellow, and the color of the tongue is red ; there are several pulses or flood pulses, that is, the pulse speed is faster than normal; constipation, yellow urine.　

Cold and flu:

Mild fever, severe aversion to cold, no sweating, headache, pain in limbs and joints; heavy nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose; itchy throat with thin white sputum; thin white tongue coating; floating or tight pulse.

Heat and dampness:

Usually onset in summer, there will be fever, but sweating, nasal congestion and runny nose, weight and fatigue, upset and thirst, dizziness, heavy pain, chest tightness and vomiting, red tongue, yellow and greasy coating, slippery pulse , Short red urine.

2. If you have a cold due to wind-heat, look for these 5 tips =============================================================

If you want to stay away from wind-heat colds, you must learn some preventive methods, such as:

• Drink more water

During the period of wind heat and cold, you must pay attention to replenishing water in time, and you need to drink about 2000 ml of water every day, because fever can easily lead to water loss and water and electrolyte imbalance.

• sweat less

During the period of Fengreganmao, do not exercise blindly and sweat, because Fengreganmao is an internal heat caused by exogenous heat. At this time, the body's metabolism will speed up and the body temperature will rise. If you sweat during intense exercise at this time, it will increase the body's heat. This results in the accumulation of internal heat , which can easily aggravate the condition.

• Don't be greedy

Usually, we should pay attention not to be greedy for cold, and eat less cold and cold food. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, cold and cold food can easily lead to the stagnation of Qi and blood in the body, which is not conducive to dispelling pathogens. Therefore, it is best not to drink cold or ice water during the period of wind heat and cold, and do not stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time .

• Eat less sweet, greasy and spicy food

Patients with wind-heat cold will have body heat. If they eat too much spicy and greasy food and sweets, such as peppers, barbecue, candy and other foods, it is easy to increase internal heat, which is not conducive to wind-heat cold to remove the heat evil in time and prolong the recovery of the cold. time.

• light diet

When the wind is hot and cold, the body's righteousness tends to resist evil, so the gastrointestinal function will be lower than usual. At this time, we must pay attention to a light diet and eat less greasy and indigestible food, otherwise it will easily increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

During a cold, the diet should be mainly low-fat, low-salt foods , eat more vegetables and fruits , and you can also choose to use chrysanthemum, mung beans, mint and other foods to help relieve internal heat.

It is worth noting that if the symptoms of a cold persist for a long time or the symptoms deteriorate rapidly, such as severe cough, suffocation, palpitation, oliguria and other symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time, especially the elderly, people with underlying diseases, Children and pregnant women should pay more attention.

In short, colds cannot be blindly prescribed by themselves. It is necessary to determine which type of colds they belong to according to the symptoms. Only dialectical treatment can effectively alleviate the disease.

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