What is a cold? How to treat a cold?

Among various types of colds, cold is a common type of illness in life. Generally speaking, after suffering from a cold, patients should also learn about the common knowledge of the disease.

What are colds and flu?

The common cold is caused by a number of different filterable viruses, including coronavirus, rhinovirus or parainfluenza, and is medically known as acute upper respiratory tract infection.

Colds are usually caused by exposure to cold, rain or excessive fatigue, coupled with a decrease in the body's resistance. If there are no complications, they will generally heal in three to four days.

The cold is a common acute infection of the nose, throat, and upper respiratory tract mucosa, that is, acute upper respiratory tract infection. It is generally believed that 90% of cases are caused by viruses, and a few can cause secondary bacterial infections.

How to treat colds and flu?

Nasal irrigation

Western medicine believes that when the human body is exposed to cold, rain and other inducing factors, the frequency of respiratory cilia beating decreases, the time that nasal mucus and the viruses, bacteria and fungi adsorbed on it stay in the nasal cavity is greatly increased, allowing the viruses that cause colds to multiply in large numbers and invade the human body, causing a cold. Therefore, when you have a cold, repeatedly rinsing your nasal cavity with saline can wash out the viruses in the nasal cavity, preventing the viruses from multiplying in large numbers in the nasal cavity and continuously invading the human body. This method can cure a cold within 2 to 4 days without any side effects.

Sugar ginger tea

Because colds are mostly caused by external wind and cold, they often cause symptoms such as headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, joint pain, and even fear of cold and fever. You can use appropriate amounts of brown sugar, ginger, and black tea, boil them into soup and drink it 1-2 times a day. It not only warms the body and removes cold, but also has good prevention and treatment functions for colds.

Eat less salt

Experiments have shown that eating less sodium-containing salt can increase the lysozyme content in saliva, protect the epithelial cells of the oral and throat mucosa, and allow them to secrete more immunoglobulin A and interferon to fight the cold virus. Therefore, controlling daily salt intake to less than 5 grams is very beneficial for preventing and treating colds.