What are the symptoms of Qi deficiency cold? How should you take care of yourself when you have a cold?

Cold is a common infectious disease in life. It affects all seasons and all people. So although cold is not a very serious disease, the incidence rate is very high. So what are the symptoms of qi deficiency cold?

Symptoms of a cold

The main symptoms include sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion, coughing, sore throat, etc. But different types of colds have different main symptoms:

Common cold: Sneezing is common, but not a specific symptom; sore throat and nasal congestion are very common; there are mild pain, fatigue, and sputum; other symptoms such as headache, fever, and chills are uncommon; there are also symptoms such as mild chest discomfort; the disease progresses slowly, and the systemic symptoms are mild.

Influenza: The most obvious way is to sneeze, the droplets produced can spread the virus to others. Headache, fever, body aches, chest discomfort, and fatigue are all more serious symptoms. Sore throat, chills, and cough with little sputum are uncommon. The disease progresses rapidly, and systemic symptoms are severe and may last for two weeks or longer.

Wind-cold cold: severe pain in the back of the head, difficulty in turning the neck, fear of cold and wind, usually need to wear more warm clothes to feel comfortable, runny nose, white or slightly yellowish, tongue without coating or with a thin white coating.

Wind-heat cold: Sore throat, usually before other cold symptoms appear. Thick runny nose, usually yellow or black. The tongue coating is a little yellow or white, and the tongue body is usually red. There are also other symptoms such as fever, thirst, and irritability.

Cold health care

1. Indoor environment: Take different countermeasures according to the different causes of the cold.

Cold and qi deficiency cold: Keep warm and prevent cold. The room temperature can be slightly higher to achieve the purpose of "warming up the cold";

Wind-heat and cold due to yin deficiency: the room should be slightly cooler and the temperature should be kept appropriately to achieve the purpose of "cooling down the heat";

Summer-damp cold: Pay attention to indoor ventilation.

2. Work and rest: Severe patients should rest in bed. If you sweat too much after taking medicine, you should dry your body and change into dry clothes to avoid catching a cold. You can engage in appropriate activities after the fever subsides. At the same time, patients should ensure adequate rest and sleep to facilitate recovery from the disease.

3. Diet care:

Recommended food: ① Drink more water, with the total liquid intake per day between 2500 and 5000 ml, which helps to reduce fever, induce sweating and eliminate toxins. You can drink boiled water, light vegetable soup and fresh fruit juice, such as watermelon juice, pear juice, sugarcane juice, lotus root juice, etc. You can also drink porridge, egg soup, milk and soy milk. You should also eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins.

② When you have a cold, you may have symptoms of gastrointestinal dysfunction such as abdominal distension, poor appetite, diarrhea, and constipation, so your diet should be simple and light. As side dishes, it is advisable to choose light foods such as various pickles, tofu, meat floss, etc.

Not to eat: ① Avoid greasy, fried, sticky, salty, spicy, hard and seafood food.

② In the early stage of a cold, you should avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy food. If it is a warm and hot evil, and it is in the initial stage of clearing, you should also avoid eating raw and cold food. Once the hot evil is not gone, high fever will remain, followed by thirst, irritability, and constipation. At this time, you need the help of fruits. You can frequently take pear juice, orange juice, watermelon, rice soup, mung bean soup, etc. Avoid eating too much raw, cold, and greasy food.

③ During a cold, avoid eating or eating too much duck meat, pork, mutton, dog meat, turtle, clams, vinegar, persimmon and other foods.

Eat less salt.