How can we tell if the baby is cold or cold?

In winter, when children have colds, many parents will go to the pharmacy to buy medicine for their children. At this time, we generally buy Chinese patent medicines. It is very important to learn to correctly distinguish whether the baby is cold or cold, otherwise the effect of the wrong medicine will not be ideal.

Wind chill cold and wind heat cold, some parents look at the nose color, feel that the runny nose is cold, and the yellow mucus is wind heat, in fact, this is not very accurate, because some children may also have a runny nose, and two days ago it turned into yellow mucus, so today, Dr. Wang will teach you several methods to help you identify whether your child has a cold or a cold of wind heat.

First of all, judging from the season, wind cold occurs more often in autumn and winter, and wind heat occurs more often in spring. Cold cough, there must be a cold, fear of cold, itchy throat, not severe pain, and then let the child speak, the small tongue in the middle of his throat, that is, what we often call the small tongue, if the small tongue is red, and the pharyngeal tonsils on both sides are swollen, mild, not worse, this is called wind chill cold.

Wind heat cold often the child is prone to fever, and you have told him that he is very thirsty, then his tongue will appear red, red, and may also be curved, if the child's small tongue, parents pay attention, must be sick, and the pharynx on both sides is also red, especially some children also have tonsil inflammation, if there are white spots on it, it is pus. This is what a wind-heat cold looks like. Wind chill cold is generally caused by the human body cold, wind cold invades the human body caused by cold, in the process of disease development, the first symptoms are runny nose, cold intolerance; The wind-heat cold begins with a sore throat, followed by nasal congestion and other symptoms.

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Determining whether a child has a wind-cold cold or wind-heat cold is mainly based on the child's symptoms. If it is a cold and cold, usually the fever is relatively mild, and the chill is severe, and some patients will have fever symptoms, but there will be no high fever, and the patient will feel afraid of cold, and the runny nose can not be wiped off. If it is a wind-heat cold, the child will feel a sore throat, easy to lose breath through the nose, nasal discharge will not flow, and some patients will have symptoms of high fever.

Whether the baby is a wind chill or a wind heat cold, we should distinguish it like this: 1Wind chill cold, in terms of cold intolerance will be more obvious, and at the same time there are symptoms of fever; 2.

Wind-heat cold, which will be manifested mainly by fever, and a little afraid of cold; 3.The wind chill and cold flow a thin snot, a snot like water; 4.Wind-heat colds are yellowish or sticky.

If the baby has a cold and cold, the general symptoms are mild, and they will not sweat. If it is a wind-heat cold, the baby sweats very badly, and there is no phlegm.

1. From the perspective of tongue coating, wind-heat colds are mostly manifested as thick tongue coating or relatively yellow tongue coating, while wind-cold colds are mostly manifested as thin and white tongue coating. 2. From the perspective of the color of the nasal discharge, colds will have the symptoms of runny nose, but wind-heat colds are mostly purulent nasal discharge and focal liquid yellow nasal discharge, while wind-cold colds are mostly clear nasal discharge.

3. From the perspective of sore throat symptoms, the sore throat of wind-heat cold is more obvious, and the symptoms of sore throat of wind-cold cold are relatively mild or none.

4. From the point of view of sputum, wind-heat cold, coughing up yellow sputum or purulent sputum, wind-cold cold, coughing up phlegm is mostly white and relatively thin. 5. From the point of view of the shape of the stool, the wind-heat cold is accompanied by the induration of the stool or constipation, and the wind-cold attack is mostly loose stool.

Introduction: As far as traditional Chinese medicine is concerned, there is a difference between wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold, because the drugs are different, do not mix, otherwise it will not have the effect of curing the disease, and the following shares the method of distinguishing children from wind-cold and cold.

Seasonally.

Generally speaking, in autumn and winter, most of children's colds are wind cold, that is, they feel the invasion of wind cold, so this period of time should be treated as wind chill cold; When in summer, it is generally easy to catch a cold with wind heat, that is, external wind heat.

Nose aspect.

When a child has a cold, he will generally have a runny nose, if it is a runny nose, it means that it is generally a cold cold; If the nasal discharge is thick and yellowish, it means that you have a cold. Note that sometimes, it is clear at first, and then it becomes yellow nasal discharge, indicating that the child has inflammation.

The color and texture of the phlegm.

Generally, there will be phlegm in a cold and cough, if the child's phlegm is relatively white', indicating that it is a cold and wind; If the cough has thick phlegm and is relatively yellow and thick, it is likely to be caused by wind, heat and cold. Many children can't spit, parents should let their children try to learn to spit more, and it will be much better to spit out.

Whether it hurts in the throat.

Generally speaking, the throat does not hurt when you have a cold and cold, just a dry cough, but there is no redness and swelling; If the throat is more sore, red, swollen, and the throat hurts, it means that it is a wind-heat cold.

Whether the mouth is dry.

If you have a cold and your mouth is not dry, it means that you have a cold with wind chill; If the mouth is dry, the child always wants to drink water, and always feels thirsty, it means that he has a cold.

Degree of sensitivity to cold.

Generally speaking, the wind chill cold will be more obvious cold intolerance, and the body temperature will rise; Whereas, the fear of cold is not so obvious, or it is not afraid of cold. But the child can't show it, so you should pay more attention to whether he has chills.

Whether you sweat or not.

Generally speaking, children with wind chills and colds do not sweat and do not sweat easily; And when you have a cold, you often sweat. This can be a simple distinction between wind chill and wind heat cold.