What medicine is good for high fever? What medicine is good for fever?

The medicine to take for high fever depends on whether to take the right medicine for the symptom or the right cause, and the so-called symptomatic medicine is antipyretics. Many cold remedies on the market contain fever-reducing ingredients, either acetaminophen or ibuprofen, which are the most common. The so-called cause is to see whether it is caused by a bacterial infection or a viral infection.

If you have a bacterial infection, you should take antibacterial drugs, and if it is caused by a viral infection, you should take antiviral drugs. So how to choose?

Depending on which part of the infection is, upper respiratory tract infections are often caused by viruses, so it is necessary to take antiviral drugs. Most lower respiratory tract infections are caused by bacteria, so you need to take antibacterial drugs. If it is a fever caused by a urinary tract infection, it is mostly caused by bacteria, so you need to take antibacterial drugs.

If it is a central nervous system infection, further tests should be done to see if it is caused by bacteria or viruses, or other causes, such as tuberculosis bacteria, and anti-tuberculosis drugs should be taken.

Therefore, there are different choices for different **, so it is not a problem that can be solved simply by saying what medicine to take.

Fever is fever and can be relieved by symptomatic medication or symptomatic medication under the guidance of a doctor. If the body temperature is lower, you can also choose physical methods to cool down, such as warm water scrub bath, ice pack cold compress, etc.

1. Symptomatic medication: For fever symptoms, you can take antipyretic drugs such as ibuprofen sustained-release capsules and acetaminophen tablets according to the doctor's instructions to promote the return of body temperature to normal. If it is accompanied by symptoms such as cough and sputum production, you can take cough and phlegm reducing drugs such as dextromethorphan hydrobromide tablets and ambroxol hydrochloride oral solution according to the doctor's instructions**;

2. For medication: For fever symptoms caused by bacterial infection, antibiotics can be used according to the doctor's instructions, such as cefuroxime ester tablets, amoxicillin capsules, azithromycin dispersible tablets, etc. If the fever is caused by viral infection, you can take antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir phosphate granules and ribavirin granules according to the doctor's instructions**.

Once the infection is under control, the body temperature will gradually return to normal.

The body temperature remained normal, and the rest of the symptoms were significantly reduced before returning to work and study. Older people with underlying medical conditions can rest for a few more days. If you really don't feel well, you can also choose some targeted Chinese patent medicines.

1. Fever. Stay in bed, drink plenty of fluids, and eat light, easily digestible foods. In infectious fever, the fever itself is one of the manifestations of the body's immune system clearing the source of infection, and drugs such as antipyretics are usually not rushed unless there is a high fever and the patient is severely unwell.

Patients with high fever must be cooled, and the antipyretics of choice are acetaminophen and ibuprofen. (However, you can choose 1 kind of antipyretics, read the instructions carefully before use, and avoid repeating and overdosing; While taking acetaminophen, avoid drinking alcohol to prevent liver damage. ）

2. Cough. The symptoms are not particularly severe, so you don't need to take cough medicine. If the cough symptoms are very severe, there is a tendency to dyspnea or affect normal sleep and rest, cough medicine can be taken appropriately for symptomatic treatment, including dextromethorphan hydrobromide tablets, dextromethorphan guaifenesin syrup, ambroxol hydrochloride tablets, acetylcysteine effervescent tablets, Lianhua Qingwen granules (capsules), Xuanlung cough mixture, Jingyin granules, phlegm reqing capsules, etc.

3. Decreased sense of smell or taste.

The incidence rate is not high, and most patients gradually recover their sense of smell and taste in about a week. This is not a symptom unique to the coronavirus, other respiratory viral infections can also occur. Brush your teeth twice a day to ensure oral hygiene.

If possible, olfactory training can be carried out according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, including smelling lemons, roses, cloves and eucalyptus twice a day for 20 seconds each time. Try adding herbs and spices to your food, such as chili peppers, lemon juice, etc. However, caution is recommended for patients with concomitant diarrhea or plain gastrointestinal dysfunction.