What to do if you catch a cold in hot weather

It is easy to catch a cold in hot weather. The body's heat cannot be dissipated in hot weather, which often causes summer-heat and dampness cold. Its symptoms are just like those of heatstroke, and it is easy to cause nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. At this time, appropriate medication can be used for treatment. The most common thing is to drink some Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, children can drink Xiaoer Shuxianning Syrup, etc. In addition, get enough rest.

What to do if you catch a cold in hot weather

Some people, after catching a cold or fever in the summer, will directly take some medicines that have sweating and antipyretic effects, or cover themselves with a quilt to make themselves sweat in the hope of cooling down. This method may not be reliable. Because the main symptom of summer-heat and dampness cold is fever, and this kind of fever generally does not show obvious symptoms of fear of cold. For summer-heat and dampness colds, even after sweating, the body temperature is still difficult to lower. Therefore, you cannot rely on sweating to reduce fever, but should clear away summer heat and eliminate dampness and heat.

Treatment can be combined with food and medicine. You should choose some Shuqu Pills, Shushi Cold Granules, Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills, Qingshu Yiqi Pills, and Xiaoer Shuganning Syrup.

In addition, you can also choose diet therapy, drinking juice from fruits such as watermelon and tomato that clear heat and promote salivation. Remember to drink plenty of water to clear away the summer heat. In normal times, you should also eat more foods that can dispel heat and dampness, such as barley porridge, winter melon and mung bean soup, carp and red bean soup, lotus leaf rice, etc. The diet should be light and you should get more rest.

Why do people get summer-heat and dampness colds?

Tang Weihua said that the culprit was "greed for coolness". Because the weather is hot, many people want to eat popsicles, drink ice water, and ice drinks to cool off. Some people, after exercising, sweat profusely and then binge drink cold drinks or take a cold shower; they suddenly go from the hot and stuffy outdoors into a very cold car or indoors; they sleep in the cool at night or sleep outdoors. These can easily cause summer heat and dampness colds.

Summer-heat and dampness cold is a cold unique to summer, because summer is hot and humid, people want to stay cool at this time, and it is very easy to catch a cold due to the alternating cold and heat. The main symptoms are dizziness, heaviness and fatigue, irritability and dry mouth, poor appetite, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and small amount of yellow urine.

The symptoms of summer-heat cold and heatstroke are very similar, but the two symptoms are different. Tang Weihua explained that summer-heat and dampness cold belongs to the category of colds, with obvious cold symptoms such as fever, nasal congestion, and runny nose; although heatstroke has fever, there are no other cold symptoms. This is the fundamental difference between the two.

Heatstroke is mostly caused by working in a high temperature environment; summer-heat and dampness cold is different, its main cause is the human body's exposure to wind, cold, heat and dampness.