What to do if you catch a cold from the fan

When the weather is hot, you like to use a fan, especially when sleeping. If you are not careful, you may catch a cold. The most common thing is that the elderly and children are most likely to catch a cold when using a fan. This is generally caused by a cold. You should pay attention to keeping warm and strengthen your diet. If you have symptoms of fever and body aches, you should take medicine in time.

What to do if you catch a cold from the fan

1. Don’t get cold again, keep quiet

Heat colds start from the throat. Only by getting a good rest can you enhance the body's resistance, increase blood flow in the throat, and stop the capillaries in the infected throat from expanding and compressing the nerves, and the sore throat will gradually ease.

2. Pay attention to your diet

What you eat after catching a cold in the summer is very important because it determines the speed of recovery. There are three types of food that cannot be eaten:

① Sour foods such as black plum and hawthorn. Since patients with heat and cold have poor appetite, many people like to eat foods that have "appetite stimulating" effects such as hawthorn and black plum, but this is actually inappropriate. Because these foods are often sour and have a astringent effect, they will affect the dispersing effect of drugs or foods used to treat "heat colds" to a certain extent. Therefore, special attention should be paid to this in the early stages of heat colds.

② Fried foods and foods rich in animal and vegetable fats. Since these types of foods can also hinder the effectiveness of antipyretic drugs, they should be avoided while taking the medicine.

③Cold drinks. Some people think that cold drinks are just the right thing for patients with heat colds. In fact, this idea is based on literal interpretation. Overcooled food has an astringent effect and will affect the antipyretic effect of drugs or food.

3. Indoor and outdoor temperature difference

.Use air conditioning scientifically. With the development of society and the improvement of economy and material life, people's living standards are constantly improving. Air conditioners have entered thousands of households, making summer less hot. However, people ignore the troubles caused by temperature differences. Due to the large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor and poor indoor ventilation, people are often prone to catching colds and developing fevers. If they do not seek medical treatment in time, it may cause more serious complications such as pneumonia. Don't be greedy for temporary comfort and ignore your own health. The hotter the weather, the more you should strengthen heat-resistance exercises and reduce the time spent in air-conditioned rooms. Citizens who often work in air-conditioned environments should try not to use air conditioning when they return home.