What is the matter with yellow nasal discharge and yellow thick phlegm after a cold

There are two types of common colds: wind-chill colds.

and wind-heat colds.

Wind chill cold: low-grade fever.

or no fever. Itchy throat, runny nose, coughing up clear sputum, general systemic symptoms are mild, the pharynx is slightly red, and there are no other complications.

Wind-heat cold: fever, generally moderate fever or high fever, sore throat, yellow nasal discharge, cough with yellow and thick phlegm, pharyngeal redness and swelling, severe systemic symptoms will be accompanied by some other complications, such as bronchitis, otitis media.

Pharyngitis, tonsillitis.

sinusitis, etc. These two kinds of colds are often converted into each other, maybe just at the beginning of the cold, it is a wind-cold cold, and after a few days of not getting better, the symptoms will aggravate and turn into a wind-heat cold, and when the cold symptoms are almost good, it will become a wind-cold cold. So that's why we get to cold and cough.

Later, there will be yellow phlegm and yellow nasal discharge.

How to prevent colds and coughs.

Salt water gargle: Rinse your mouth with light salt water every morning and evening after meals to remove oral bacteria. In the flu.

When it is popular, more attention should be paid to rinsing the mouth with saline, at this time, it is better to raise the head and rinse the throat with saline to fully rinse the pharynx.

Massage nasal groove: rub both hands together, massage Yingxiang acupoint (located in the nasal groove, the midpoint of the outer edge of the horizontal nose) more than ten times after the palm is hot, which can prevent colds and reduce nasal congestion symptoms after colds.

Drink boiled water: the climate is dry in autumn and winter, the human body is very prone to water shortage, often drink boiled water, not only to ensure the needs of the human body, but also to play a diuretic detoxification, eliminate the effect of waste in the body.

Generally speaking, colds and coughs come first, and only when they are not in time** will there be symptoms of cough. Therefore, we can prevent coughs by preventing colds. However, this method is not always useful, the main thing is to exercise more by yourself, so that the body can reach a healthy state, and the immunity will be improved, so as to achieve the goal of staying away from the pain!

That's a good performance.

Yellow nasal discharge and phlegm are the same meaning, yellow phlegm is the virus, phlegm is clear is a cold caused by too low temperature, and the virus needs to take medicine to get better.

One is inflammation of the upper respiratory tract and the other is inflammation of the lower respiratory tract.

In daily life, even an adult will have 3-4 colds a year, also known as upper respiratory tract infections, and colds may be accompanied by coughs. But we will find that when coughing, sometimes the phlegm is yellow and sometimes white. So what's the difference between the two?

How phlegm is produced in the respiratory tract.

Phlegm, in fact, to put it bluntly, is the mucus secreted by the mucous membrane in the human respiratory tract, even if you are not sick, the respiratory tract of a normal person will secrete sputum, but the color is bright and transparent, and a small amount of phlegm will be coughed up in the morning.

Is phlegm harmful in the human body?

In fact, normal sputum has a moisturizing and barrier effect, keeping the respiratory tract moist and adsorbing airborne particles. In addition, it helps to kill pathogens. Moreover, if phlegm appears, it is also a sign of illness in the body, indicating that our respiratory tract is sick.

Therefore, there is no harm in phlegm, but it is necessary to pay attention to active treatment to avoid prolonged coughing and causing damage to the respiratory tract.

In addition, the color of the sputum is different, and the suggestive effect on the disease is also different.

The sputum is yellow and viscous.

In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to hot phlegm, which also indicates that it belongs to wind-heat cold and wind-heat cough, and it is necessary to use ** wind-heat drugs symptomatically.

The sputum is white and thin.

In the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to cold phlegm, and due to the cold and cough caused by wind cold, it is necessary to use warm lung and cold medicine symptomatically.

Coughing with a lot of phlegm.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by spleen dampness, and if it is caused by spleen and stomach dampness, the color of the sputum is yellowish-white, or with pus and blood. Traditional Chinese medicine is needed to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness.

In addition, the amount of sputum is small and viscous, which may be dry phlegm, or even dry cough, which needs to nourish yin and nourish the lungs; If the sputum is like a flocculent, very viscous, or even dark in color, it belongs to old phlegm.

From the perspective of Western medicine, the yellowish-white appearance of sputum may be caused by 4 categories:

1. Acute bronchitis or tracheitis, which is manifested as small and thick sputum.

2. Chronic bronchitis, manifested as long-term cough, foamy sputum, and purulent sputum.

3. Lung abscess, pneumonia, tuberculosis, manifested as a large amount of purulent sputum.

4. Infection with Candida, similar to cold phlegm, white sputum color, and stringing phenomenon.

In fact, cough, in addition to being caused by respiratory tract infections, may also be caused by the following factors:

1. Other diseases of the respiratory system, such as lung binding, infection, parasites, tumors and other problems, in addition, bronchial asthma, pulmonary embolism, bronchial foreign bodies, etc. will also cause cough.

2. Cardiovascular disease, generally mainly due to the incompleteness of the left atrium, causes pulmonary edema and congestion.

3. Digestive tract diseases, such as gastroesophageal reflux, can also cause cough.

4., other diseases such as habitual cough, psychiatric factors, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, etc.

From the perspective of Western medicine, cold and cough with yellow phlegm are due to the increase in respiratory secretions caused by pathogen infection, and some are caused by bacterial infection that causes respiratory secretions to turn yellow. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, yellow phlegm is caused by hot blood or dampness and heat.

The yellow thick phlegm contains white blood cells and germs killed by white blood cells, which make the phlegm thick and yellow.

Coughing up thick yellow phlegm is due to the invasion of purulent bacteria into the body, causing congestion and edema of the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract, and a large amount of viscous yellow purulent secretion oozing.

Coughing up yellow phlegm when you have a cold indicates that you have a lot of inflammation. Or maybe you're showing symptoms of a bacterial infection. We can take anti-inflammatory drugs or antibiotics by mouth to relieve the condition.

Hello, it is wind-heat and cold, the symptoms are severe fever, slight wind, head swelling and pain, sweating, red, swollen and painful throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion and yellow discharge, thirst and drinking, red tongue tip, thin white and yellowish moss. The treatment should be based on the pungent and cool solution. You can choose Yinqiao antidote pills (tablets), Sangju cold tablets, Banlan root powder, etc.

If the fever is severe and the sore throat is obvious, you can take Shuanghuanglian oral liquid (granule) and heat clearing and detoxification oral liquid. Another banlan root powder is used for virus ** flu (flu), which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Note that wind chill and cold should not be used, Qingkailing granules are used for virus ** (flu), acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, acute bronchitis and other high fever does not go away, suffering from wind heat and cold to drink more water, diet should be light, you can drink radish soup or pear soup.