Chinese medicine believes that external wind-cold and external wind-heat can cause fever and runny nose in babies, such as the need to identify the wind-cold or wind-heat, should also be combined with the patient’s other accompanying symptoms of comprehensive consideration.
1. External wind-cold: wind-cold evil attack on the surface of the muscle can easily lead to the lungs and the guards are not in harmony, the positive and the evil qi fight, thus causing fever, because the lungs open the orifices in the nose, the lungs are damaged, then nasal congestion and runny nose. In addition, wind-cold cold can also be accompanied by fever, chills (fear of cold) light, body aches, nasal discharge, thin white tongue coating, floating tight pulse and other symptoms.
2. Wind-heat cold: the body feels the evil of wind-heat, and it is easy to enter into the heat, so there is a fever, due to the loss of lung purging, lung qi disharmony, then there is nasal congestion and runny nose, and this time, the runny nose is more yellow and thick. In addition, wind-heat colds can be accompanied by fever and cold, nasal congestion and sore throat, yellow snot, thin yellow moss, floating pulse and other symptoms.
Patients with fever and runny nose are advised to go to regular hospitals for treatment under the guidance of professional physicians.