What are the differences between the symptoms of a hot cold and a cold?

Summer is a season when people are particularly prone to heat colds. After catching a heat cold, the whole body will feel uncomfortable, and it is also particularly easy to induce other diseases. Therefore, patients with heat colds want to fully understand the differences between the symptoms of heat colds and cold colds. The following is a detailed introduction. You can see the differences and then treat them symptomatically.

Wind-heat type cold: The patient has severe fever, mild aversion to cold, dry and painful throat, and even redness, swelling and pain in the throat and tonsils, nasal congestion, runny yellow nose, thirst, cough and spit out sticky phlegm, red edges and tip of the tongue, and a thin yellow coating. It is advisable to use pungent and warm herbs to relieve the exterior symptoms. You can use wind-heat cold granules, Yinqiao Jiedu pills, Isatis root, Sangju cold tablets, Yinqiao Jiedu granules, Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, etc.

Wind-cold type cold: Patients are characterized by severe aversion to cold, mild fever, obvious headache and joint pain, heavy nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, no thirst, spitting up white thin sputum when coughing, no obvious throat pain, or only itchy throat, not red tongue, and thin white fur. It is good for clearing the lungs and dispersing cold, and relieving exterior symptoms with pungent and warm properties. You can take wind-cold cold granules, cold and heat-clearing granules, Yinqiao Jiedu pills, Shensu pills, noon tea, etc. You can also decoct and drink it with 30 grams of scallion with roots, 9 grams of light fermented black beans, and 9 grams of ginger.

Summer heat type cold: Most patients are caused by summer heat and dampness, and suffer from dizziness, thirst, vomiting or diarrhea, which may be accompanied by fever, chills, headache or body pain, loss of appetite, and greasy white tongue coating. It is suitable for clearing away heat and dispelling summer heat, clearing away heat from the air, and clearing turbidity with fragrance. You can choose Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Liuhe Dingzhong Pills, Shidi Shui, or take Rendan orally and use cooling oil externally.

There is a huge difference between a hot cold and a cold. First of all, a hot cold is a more serious type of cold, with high fever and discomfort. A cold is a common cold. After catching it, the symptoms are not too obvious and you can recover as soon as possible without taking any medicine. So after understanding the difference, if you catch a heat cold, you must recover as soon as possible by drinking more water and taking some therapeutic medicines.