How can you tell if it s a cold or allergic rhinitis causing a sneezing runny nose?

Hello, the symptoms of cold and allergic rhinitis are very similar, if the cold is not good for seven days, then it is considered to be the symptoms of allergic rhinitis, taking cold medicine can only relieve it for a while, but it has no ** effect.

Allergic rhinitis is related to one's own physique, and it is difficult for a person's physique to change, so allergic rhinitis is not good**, including drugs, surgery, nasal lavage, etc. In addition to the traditional method, you can use saline to wash your nose, saline will do. You can do your own nasal irrigation or use a nasal irrigation device.

This method is very safe, there is no ***, and the effect is slower than that of the drug, but for rhinitis without turbinate hypertrophy and nasal polyps, insisting on nasal lavage has a good effect.

The most important point of saline nasal irrigation is that saline nasal irrigation must be done in two steps, you must first rinse the nasal vestibule separately, and then rinse the deep nasal cavity after rinsing the nasal vestibule. If you can't flush directly from one nostril to another or directly into the deep nasal cavity, it will flush the dirt in the nasal vestibule directly to the deep nasal cavity, which has a complex structure and is easy to accumulate dirt (which is why some people can't blow out their nose), and you will flush the dirty things that have been blocked from the outside.

Therefore, when choosing a saline nasal irrigation tool, you should also pay attention to this point, which does not distinguish between two steps of saline nasal irrigation, but simply goes in from one nostril and out of the other.

Another: saline nasal irrigation tools, nasal irrigation devices, whether simple or complex, such as electric, must have a Class II medical device number to be sold on the market, so that they can be used with confidence.

Therefore, it is necessary to keep your eyes open in choosing specific products to avoid being deceived.

If you don't understand rhinitis or saline nasal lavage, you can ask for help

Runny nose, sneezing, is it a cold or allergic rhinitis?

The difference between allergies and colds, many friends are prone to allergies in winter, spring or autumn, generally allergies to pollen or grass seeds, fungi, the main manifestations are runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat or accompanied by cough.

The difference between it and a cold is that in addition to itchy throat and cough, a cold can also cause fever, sore throat and yellow phlegm. Allergies will have systemic manifestations, such as itching or rubella, eczema, and colds are only limited to the upper respiratory tract, there will be fever, stomach cold, allergies will not appear, allergies are only runny nose, sneezing.

In the case of allergies, the reaction occurs only after contact with special objects, and in the case of colds, symptoms occur throughout the day.

In addition to sneezing, colds can also be accompanied by headaches, sore throats and other symptoms. Allergies do not accompany these symptoms.

It's not that difficult to tell if you have a cold or an allergy. To put it simply, the timing of the onset of symptoms in allergy patients will be temporal and environmental, the so-called temporal is that the symptoms will only appear when the temperature is low in the morning and evening, or at the turn of the seasons; The environment refers to the environment of allergens, perhaps there are allergens in the air-conditioned room, or the air in the environment is polluted, which will induce allergies.

Itchy nose and itchy eyes are rare in patients with colds, but they are common in patients with allergic rhinitis; On the other hand, patients with allergic rhinitis rarely have a sore throat, muscle aches or fever, and unless they are combined with sinusitis, they usually do not have fever, and they rarely have sore throat, muscle aches, or decreased mobility.

Yan Hongrong, a traditional Chinese medicine physician at the Taipei Branch of the Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, believes that it is not so difficult to distinguish between a cold and an allergy. To put it simply, the timing of the onset of symptoms in allergy patients will be temporal and environmental, the so-called temporal is that the symptoms will only appear when the temperature is low in the morning and evening, or at the turn of the seasons; The environment refers to the environment of allergens, perhaps there are allergens in the air-conditioned room, or the air in the environment is polluted, which will induce allergies.

Therefore, allergies are likely to occur every day for up to 1 month, but the length of the attack can be short-lived, ranging from minutes to hours, and the attack can quickly return to normal after the attack. As for the general cold symptoms, they will cause discomfort throughout the day, but as long as they are 3 5 days** and rest, they can generally be cured; Therefore, if cold symptoms do not improve for more than 5 days, a suspected allergy may be suspected.

After distinguishing whether it is a cold or allergy, there will be no ineffective **, because when a cold occurs, most people will go to Western medicine, because they feel that taking Western medicine to relieve symptoms is the fastest and most effective, and the general doctor will prescribe fever, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving and other drugs to improve the discomfort caused by the cold. However, if allergic rhinitis is treated as a cold, at most it can only temporarily relieve the allergy symptoms, and because it is only a symptom but not a cure, the allergy will still occur again at the same time the next day.

The most frightening thing is that if the allergy symptoms are not well controlled, I am afraid that it will cause complications, the most serious of which is asthma, about 3 percent of patients with nasal allergies will be combined with asthma, once the attack is likely to be fatal, and 7 percent of asthma patients will also have allergic rhinitis.

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