Gay people have the misconception that colds must be treated extremely early, especially fevers, or they will burn into pneumonia. This is from the thinking that people have about treating diseases extremely early. Yes, diseases should be treated very early, but it is not the same as treating one disease as another, although the early symptoms of a cold and pneumonia are almost identical. A cold is not pneumonia, and in the vast majority of cases the causative organisms are different. Colds are predominantly viral, with a wide variety of viruses; pneumonia is predominantly bacterial, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. You use the treatment of bacteria to treat the cold of course, the same way to treat the cold virus treatment pneumonia is also useless. There are exceptions, such as influenza A and SARS. Back then, most patients with influenza A and SARS only showed symptoms of common cold, and very few did not partly deteriorate into viral pneumonia. Of course, this part of the deterioration is not because “not timely treatment burned into pneumonia”, why some people with influenza A, SARS is just a cold, or even no disease, some people will develop into pneumonia or even death? There is no definite answer, only that it is related to specific groups of people, such as obese, pregnant women are high-risk groups, more bizarre is that in hospitals there is also the legend that “people who smoke are not susceptible to SARS”, of course, this is not to encourage people to smoke Oh. There are exceptions, pneumonia caused by bird flu, definitely not a cold deterioration to come. There are also many diseases that can manifest themselves as cold-like symptoms, such as tuberculosis. Finally, how to deal with the cold, or rather with the symptoms of the cold? Not to take medicine, and almost all cold medicine has no therapeutic effect except to relieve symptoms; even for fever, physical cooling and not from water and salt are the main factors. The key is, pay attention to rest, observe closely and, never use medicine before the diagnosis is clear. If cold symptoms are not relieved, you can seek help from your doctor. However, then again, many doctors still like to give flu fluids to patients. This is another topic.