Why is it difficult to get a cold in summer?

Some people find that it is not easy to recover from a cold in the summer, unlike the relatively shorter duration of colds in the winter. The reason for this phenomenon is that people's pores are open in the summer, and the body's defense ability is relatively poor, which can easily lead to the invasion of wind evil. Especially for people with poor physical fitness, or the elderly and children, they are more likely to develop cold symptoms, which will also have a certain impact on their health.

Why is it difficult to get a cold in summer?

In summer, the pores of the human body are open, and the defense ability is weak. The air humidity is high, and the unbearable heat will damage the human body's vital energy. In addition, people like to use air conditioning and take cold showers, which makes them hot outside and cold inside, resulting in the problem that summer colds are not easy to cure. In addition to common cold symptoms, summer colds also have symptoms of internal heat such as thirst and irritability, and the whole process is more severe than the symptoms of a common cold.

This poses a threat to young children, the elderly and the infirm. Young children with colds and fevers in the summer are prone to convulsions and coma; elderly people with colds in the summer often develop pneumonia, which can easily induce critical illnesses such as cerebral stroke and myocardial infarction; if the weak and sickly catch colds throughout the summer, it is easy for old illnesses to relapse and worsen their conditions.

Yang Baolin said that because most summer colds are not caused by wind and cold, common methods of dealing with winter colds such as drinking ginger soup, covering with thick quilts and sweating are taboos for summer colds. If you catch a cold in the summer, you should pay attention to clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. You can eat foods that quench thirst and relieve summer heat, such as lentils, mung beans, tomatoes, or medicines such as Shi Di Shui, Ren Dan, and Huoxiang Zhengqi. To prevent summer colds, use the air conditioner less often, don’t seek coolness too much, and do appropriate heat resistance training. Drinking mint, bamboo leaves, chrysanthemum, forsythia, etc. as tea has a certain preventive effect. When treating, be sure to choose the right medicine for your condition, otherwise it may worsen the condition.

Summer cold types

The first is the summer-heat and dampness cold. Because summer is hot and humid, everyone tends to be more eager to stay cool and likes to use air conditioning, etc., which makes it easy to be infected by wind and cold. In terms of symptoms, the symptoms of wind-cold cold, wind-heat cold and summer-heat cold include nasal congestion, runny nose and fever. The difference is that wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds mostly occur in autumn and winter and spring and autumn, with mild fever and severe chills. The summer-heat and dampness cold is a cold unique to summer, which is commonly known as the heat cold among the people. The biggest difference between heat cold and the first two types of colds is that the fever is severe and the chills are mild. Generally, patients do not feel cold, but just have fever and sweat a lot but the fever does not go away. Therefore, if you take antipyretics for a heat cold in the summer just like you do for a cold in the winter, the effect will not be very good.

The second is the summer heat syndrome cold, which is mostly caused by prolonged drought and extreme heat, and is a pure yang heat syndrome. The important feature of this type of cold is the prominent fever symptoms, which is one of the most severe types of colds in all seasons. Symptoms include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, persistent sweating, irritability, thirst, yellow tongue coating, and a floating, strong and rapid pulse.