A patient with a cold who is menstruating can take cold and flu medications. Cold belongs to the most common type of acute upper respiratory tract infection in clinical practice, which can present with various clinical symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, as well as fever, cough and sputum, and so on, and thus requires the use of compound cold medicines to provide relief. These compound drugs include a variety of active ingredients, such as antihistamines, fever-reducing drugs, as well as relief of nasal congestion, runny nose, as well as cough suppressants, these drugs do not affect the blood clotting factor, for menstruation does not have any effect. Therefore, if you have your period when you have a cold, you can also take cold medicine, and it will not affect your period, nor will it affect the cold itself.