What are the medicines for cold and flu

Cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract caused by a virus, and the treatment drugs mainly include allopathic drugs and antiviral drugs, antibacterial drugs, Chinese medicine. 1, symptomatic treatment drugs: is the main treatment drugs for colds, cold patients often manifest cough, runny, coughing phlegm, throat discomfort, fever and other symptoms, the clinical cold medicine for cold symptoms treatment, in order to relieve symptoms, reduce the patient’s discomfort. Such as cough, runny patients can be treated with pseudoephedrine to reduce nasal congestion, which is the main component of many cold medicines, such as Neocontrol; fever patients can be given antipyretic and analgesic drugs, such as aspirin effervescent tablets, paracetamol, etc.. 2, antiviral drugs: there is no special antiviral drugs, ribavirin and oseltamivir is a broad spectrum of antiviral drugs, in clinical use, especially for patients with influenza, the early use of antiviral drugs can reduce complications, reduce mortality. 3, antibacterial drugs: simple cold does not need to use antibacterial drugs, but the late cold often secondary bacterial infection, and even pneumonia and other serious cases, should use penicillin, cephalosporins, quinolones. 4, Chinese medicine treatment: Chinese medicine treatment cold life is also more commonly used, can use some heat detoxification, clearing heat and relieving the surface or anti-viral effect of Chinese medicine, can also be symptomatic use of some cough and phlegm Chinese medicine, help improve the symptoms, shorten the course of the disease. There are various kinds of cold medicine, patients need to choose the right medicine for themselves under the guidance of professional doctors, do not blindly use medicine.