When you have a stuffy nose and runny nose and sneezing, you may be suffering from a wind-cold or wind-heat cold, or you may be suffering from allergic rhinitis. Different diseases need to be treated with different medications.
1. Wind-cold cold. You can choose to take medicines such as ephedra and sophora. These drugs can get rid of the cold in the body and relieve the condition. You can also choose to take Chinese medicine or western medicine. After taking the medicine, you can drink some hot soup to make your body sweat and make the medicine work faster. Try not to eat foods that are too cold and greasy when you have a wind-cold cold.
2. Wind-heat cold. It mostly occurs in summer and autumn and is caused by wind-heat entering the body and breaking the balance of lung qi. After suffering from this disease, follow the Chinese herbal remedy Yin Qiao San to decoct and eat. Or take Chinese herbal medicine that can expel the evil of wind-heat. Or choose the dietary treatment by drinking peppermint porridge and steamed snow pear with mother of pearl.
3. Allergic rhinitis. The patient will have a runny nose, blocked nose, sneezing and other symptoms after being exposed to certain types of substances. Common allergenic substances are pollen, mites, etc. Patients can choose to take anti-allergy medications and leave the allergen to relieve these symptoms. To treat allergic rhinitis completely, immunotherapy can be used to make oneself non-allergic to certain types of substances.
Before using medications, it is best to ask your doctor if you can use them. There are some medications that are taken by certain types of patients that can cause patients to have mild or severe adverse reactions.