Myth 1: When you have a cough, you just stop coughing. When you have a cough, people often try desperately to use cough medicine, one is not enough to use two, or even many Chinese medicines are prescribed together, which is problematic – because if you try desperately to stop coughing, it is not conducive to the discharge of viruses, bacteria, secretions and necrotic tissues, the cough is stopped, but all the dirty things stay in the body. Coughing because there is an external virus, bacteria, etc. invasion, which needs to be expelled in this way, is a manifestation of the disease process and is also beneficial for recovery. Of course, excessive coughing also requires cough suppression. Handy interventions tend to lead to busyness and stress, and can also bring about side effects such as misuse of antibiotics and medications. Myth 2: You need saline when you have a serious cold. As far as colds are concerned, 90% of them are viral infections rather than bacterial infections, and antibiotics have no effect on viral infections. In the actual medical process, some patients will take the initiative to ask the doctor to use intravenous antibiotics (i.e. hanging water). In fact, both intravenous and oral antibiotics can enter the body, but the peak blood concentration will be higher if used intravenously, and will enter the body quickly, while oral will be slower, but both can play a role. Except for special and serious cases, of course. Myth 3: Once you have a fever, you must bring the fever down Fever and fever reduction are a contradiction in terms. Fever is a normal response to a foreign infection and is beneficial to the organism in certain situations. Many times we over-handle it, when in fact it is only necessary to reduce the fever properly. The child’s temperature drops after a few days in the hospital, but then the fever returns in a couple of days because many children are infected with new pathogens during the course of their medical visit. Parents may think how their child’s immune function is so low and then start using antibiotics again, which is actually a misconception. Fever can, to a certain extent, strengthen the resistance and inhibit the reproduction of pathogens. It is a mistake to keep the temperature down and keep changing antibiotics as soon as the fever starts. Myth 4: Children must go to the hospital when they have a cold If the temperature is not too high (39℃ or less); if the fever is bad, but the fever goes down, the spirit is good; if the fever is not too long (less than 5 days). No matter what kind of disease you have, if you are in good spirits, there is usually no big problem, but if you are in bad spirits, you need to pay attention. If you have the following conditions, you need to go to the hospital: cough too deep (continuous cough), temperature too high, fever too long, bad spirit.