Tips for treating viral fever

Colds and fevers are common diseases in daily life. Some people think that they can just get over a cold or fever by themselves and there is no need to get injections, take medicine, or go to the hospital. However, in reality, there are quite a few patients who die in hospitals due to colds and fevers. There are many causes of colds and fevers, including influenza fever and viral fever. You need to go to the hospital for further confirmation before you can get treatment.

1. Expel the virus as soon as possible:

Western medicine says that the cause of colds is viruses, and there is no specific medicine for viruses yet, so you don’t have to think about solving it with medicine. The best and most effective way is to drink plenty of warm boiled water. Drinking several large cups of warm boiled water a day and going to the toilet more often is the most effective way to expel the virus. If your throat is obviously swollen and painful, you can add a little salt to warm water. Drinking this light warm salt water can quickly relieve the pain in your throat.

Catching cold is the cause of a cold. As long as your hands and feet are cold, you have definitely caught a cold. Getting rid of the cold as soon as possible is the key to curing a cold. In diet therapy, onions, ginger and garlic are the best foods for expelling cold. Some people like to boil water with a few slices of ginger and a spoonful of brown sugar to drink to expel cold, while others like to boil water with a few onions to drink to induce sweating and expel cold. When you catch a cold and have a cough, add a few cloves of garlic to the ginger and brown sugar water and cook them together. Drinking it can expel cold and relieve cough. In short, whether you use onions, ginger, and garlic to dispel the cold, or eat a hot and spicy hot pot to dispel the cold, you can quickly increase the heat in the body, open the pores, and expel the cold through sweating.

Another method is to soak your feet in warm water to sweat and expel the cold, which is also very effective. When you suffer from severe cold, you can soak your feet while drinking ginger and brown sugar water. Be sure to use a bucket to soak your feet, which will make it easier to sweat. You can also take 1/4 of a moxa stick, crush it and put it in a bucket. After boiling it, add warm water to soak your feet until you sweat all over. Then drink more warm water, and the cold will also be expelled quickly.

2. Make sure to get enough sleep and rest:

As long as you have cold symptoms, you must rest in time. This is the key to alleviating the condition and allowing your body to recover as soon as possible. Generally, after drinking plenty of water, drinking a few times of warm onion, ginger and garlic water, and then soaking your feet to sweat and dispel the cold, rest as soon as possible, your body will basically recover the next day.

3. What should I do if I feel sore all over after catching a cold?

Body aches and pains indicate that there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body. You must drink ginger and brown sugar water more often, and you can add more ginger. You can put 6 to 8 slices at a time.

4. What should I do if I have a fever after catching a cold?

If you have a fever after a cold, you should check the temperature of your hands and feet. Although the body temperature has exceeded the normal body temperature, the hands and feet are still cold, indicating that the cold in the body is still severe and you still need to drink ginger and brown sugar water. When you have a fever, add 1 to 2 onions and cook them together to help induce sweating. If your body temperature is high and your hands and feet are no longer cold, stop drinking ginger water and drink plenty of warm water instead. Generally, fever occurs at night. Many people do not like to drink water at night because they are afraid of frequent urination and affecting their sleep. As long as you have a fever, you must drink more water regardless of whether it is day or night. This is the most effective way to quickly reduce the temperature and expel the virus. When your whole body is hot, drink a few large cups of warm water and urinate a few times. You can obviously feel your body sweating easily. Once you sweat, your body temperature will quickly return to normal. Then pay attention to rest and cover yourself with a blanket to prevent catching a cold.

5. What happens on the second day after a cold is critical.

Generally, after the emergency treatment of dispelling cold, sweating and frequent urination on the first day, the body will basically return to normal on the second day, but the body will be relatively weak. The treatment on this day is very critical and is related to whether there will be a rebound. First, look at the tongue coating. If the tongue is still white, drink ginger and brown sugar water again that day to consolidate it. At the same time, you should still drink more warm water. Second, diet is very important. The diet on this day should be light. You can eat eggs, pork and various vegetables with neutral properties. You cannot eat fish, shrimp and other irritating foods, nor can you eat yam and other tonic foods. After eating these foods, especially children, the fever will occur again. Third, rest is also important during this day and you should not be too tired.

If you feel obviously tired and weak the next day, you can eat eel to replenish your body without getting irritated. At this time, the eel can only be cooked as braised eel slices or in soup. Do not add ginger and onions, just put a small amount of garlic for seasoning. Adults can eat angelica powder twice a day, half a spoonful at a time or a little more than usual, which can quickly restore physical strength.

Dietary considerations for fever

1. Replenish water in time. Although water is an ordinary substance, it is very important to human life. If a child has a cold or fever, mothers should encourage their baby to drink more water. After a child catches a cold, the antibodies in the baby's body are fighting the cold virus, and the body urgently needs to replenish water. Moreover, when a child has a fever, the fever will subside significantly if the baby is allowed to sweat appropriately. After sweating, you also need to replenish enough water. However, when replenishing water for your child, we recommend that you let your baby drink more warm water.

2. Choose a liquid diet. When a child has a cold or fever, his appetite will definitely decrease. At this time, mothers need to prepare some easy-to-eat food for their babies. For example, you can choose lotus root powder or mung bean soup. The reason why these two foods are recommended is that they are both foods that can reduce internal heat. If a child has a cold or fever, it is likely that there is too much internal heat. Properly helping the baby reduce the heat will be more conducive to recovery from the illness. If the child's appetite improves, we need to choose some light and nutritious semi-liquid food for the baby to eat. Children still need to supplement adequate nutrition while fighting the disease.

3. Eating seafood is prohibited. When your baby has a cold or fever, it is best not to eat seafood. I believe this is common knowledge that many mothers know. Seafood contains a lot of protein, but is more difficult to digest. Some babies may also have a cough after catching a cold. At this time, you need to pay attention to let the baby eat less greasy food or seafood.

Foods that cure fever quickly

1. Germ Killer - Onion

Functional characteristics: cold resistance, sterilization, gastrointestinal stimulation, and digestion promotion.

Onions have the effect of dispersing wind and cold, have a spicy smell, can resist cold and influenza, and have a strong bactericidal effect. Onions are rich in nutrients and can stimulate the secretion of the stomach, intestines and digestive glands, increase appetite, promote digestion, and promote the excretion of sodium salt, thereby lowering blood pressure. Therefore, they have a good health care effect on patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Pumpkin can be used as a dish or as food, because pumpkin not only can satisfy hunger, but also has certain therapeutic value. Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin. Pectin has good adsorption properties, which can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other toxic substances in the body, and can play a detoxifying role.

2. Anti-cancer medicine - beans

Functions and features: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, and fights cancer.

Beans are rich in protein and various amino acids. Regular consumption can strengthen the spleen and stomach and increase appetite. Green beans can activate the lymphocytes of cancer patients and produce immune antibodies, which have very specific damaging and inhibitory effects on cancer cells. Green beans also have many medicinal values, such as being rich in high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids.

3. Nourishing holy product - red beans

Functional characteristics: discharge pus and disperse blood, nourish and strengthen the body, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.

It is no exaggeration to say that red beans have great medicinal value. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" mentions the effects of red beans: "promoting body fluids, promoting urination, relieving bloating, removing swelling, and treating vomiting. It can also treat diarrhea, relieve alcoholism, eliminate cold and heat carbuncles, and discharge pus and disperse blood." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that red beans can clear away heat and detoxify, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish and strengthen the body, and are a very nourishing food.

4. Garlic, the insect repellent expert

Functional features: sterilization, insecticide, flu prevention, and infection prevention.

Garlic is an indispensable condiment in our diet. Garlic contains capsaicin called "propylene sulfide", which has a bactericidal ability of up to one-tenth of penicillin. It has a good killing effect on pathogens and parasites, and can prevent influenza, prevent wound infection, treat infectious diseases and deworming.