The cold that you get in the heat is called heat stroke, and in Chinese medicine it is called summer humidity cold. Heat stroke mostly occurs after the summer solstice, especially in the hot and humid “sauna days” What is heat stroke? The cold that you get in the summer is called heat stroke by the people, and it is called summer humidity cold by Chinese medicine. Heat stroke mostly occurs after the summer solstice, especially in the hot and humid “sauna days”, when the summer heat transports dampness, dampness and dense heat, which easily invades the human body, blocking the qi flow, causing body disorders and causing heat stroke. The main symptoms of heat stroke Colds are divided into two kinds: common cold and influenza, and heat stroke is a kind of common cold in summer. Summer colds are usually caused by internal heat in the body (what people call “fire” is also a kind of internal heat) and then feel the wind evil. Summer colds are often associated with summer heat and humidity. The internal causes of heat stroke include too much heat, too much consumption, not sleeping well in hot weather, not being able to eat anything due to sore throat, too little activity, anger and fire caused by things, and so on. Then let’s see what are the external causes including rushing cold water, air conditioning is too low, sleeping without covers, long time blowing fan, etc. The basic manifestations of heat typhoid are: fever, chill, no sweat or sweating, stuffy nose and runny head, headache or head swelling, sore throat, cough, nausea, poor appetite, yellow urine, joint pain, and general weakness. Heat typhoid is not contagious. However, heat typhoid can trigger the attack of some diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and asthma. Most of the patients in the outpatient clinic have certain triggers for the acute attacks of their conditions, such as cold, exertion, emotional factors, etc., which are related to heat typhoid. The cold has become the accomplice of heat stroke In several hospitals visited by the reporter, the morning outpatient clinics are almost full, and the respiratory clinic is also full of patients waiting to be seen. Doctors said that since the volcano, not only the number of patients with heat stroke increased significantly, there are some people because of the cold treatment is not timely and induced bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma and other diseases, had to come to the hospital to seek medical advice, the number of patients in this part of the trend is also on the rise. Xiao Lin is a star hotel lobby manager, the day before from outside the sweaty back to the hotel, the first thing is to run to the air conditioning under a blowing, despite the cleaning lady Chen saw Xiao Lin this move and opposed, but Xiao Lin just do not listen. After two days, Xiao Lin began to feel dizzy, nose also began to runny more than, to the hospital a check, the original is a heat typhoid. The chief physician of the respiratory department of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yuan Huiqing, said that there are few patients like Xiaolin. About 30 percent of the outpatients come to see the heat and cold. Summer colds are different from winter and spring colds. Most people catch a cold in summer because their body suddenly gets cold, which cools the blood and reflexively causes a temporary ischemia of the nose and throat, weakening the resistance and making the cold virus take advantage of the situation. And summer cold has a characteristic, in addition to the general cold symptoms, there is thirst and heartburn and other internal heat phenomenon, so many people call the summer cold “heat typhoid”. Mr. Zhang is a foreign enterprise department manager, work for a long time sitting in the office to review documents, the other day felt throat discomfort, thought it was too dry in the air conditioning room, it did not care too much. A few days later, his throat became more and more painful, and Mr. Zhang just bought some throat lozenges to deal with, and finally after a week, Mr. Zhang felt tightness in the chest, chest pain and fever symptoms, and only then went to the hospital, and finally diagnosed with pneumonia caused by heat typhoid. Mr. Zhang not only had to take time off to rest at home, but was also asked not to blow on air conditioners and fans, which was unbearable. Yuan Huiqing believes that patients with cough, breathing problems or high fever should go to a regular hospital in a timely manner, especially children, the elderly, the frail or irregular life of white-collar workers, the cold is not treated in a timely manner easy to cause other diseases and aggravate the condition. The key to summer humidity and wind heat is to dispel dampness Professor Pan Junhui of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College introduced that patients with heat typhoid have more heat toxins in their bodies, plus they feel external evil, forming “cold fire”, so they feel very hard, sneezing, nasal congestion, fear of cold, headache, high fever, etc. In Chinese medicine, heat typhoid is clinically classified into three different types: wind-cold, wind-heat, and summer-damp, of which summer-damp is the most difficult to deal with, meaning that the illness is prolonged and difficult to control. The wind-cold evidence will continue to sneeze, sore throat, heavy cold, red tongue pulse, white tongue coating, and most of them can reduce the fever after sweating with medicine. In contrast, wind-heat patients are afraid of blowing wind, especially cold. If they have external summer dampness, they will not only have fever and sore throat, but also chest tightness, vomiting, thick and greasy tongue coating, and even diarrhea, sticky stools and unfavorable urination. When you get dampness, your condition is difficult to deal with, and even if you sweat, the fever does not go down, and taking cold medicine often does not easily solve the problem. A considerable part of the early stage of heat typhoid is dominated by viral infection, the use of antibiotics does not work, cold medicine can only relieve sneezing, runny nose and other certain symptoms, can not solve the heat typhoid caused by muscle aches, chest tightness, etc., this time can be supplemented with Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine for treatment. In the south, heat stroke is more damp and summer, and it is mostly advocated to clear heat and dampness to relieve the symptoms. Fever, irritability, headache can be treated with San Ren Tang, anti-viral oral liquid, anti-viral oral liquid with patchouli, Pancreatus, Sheng Di Huang, Lian Qiao, gypsum, etc., with the function of clearing heat and detoxifying and dispelling dampness. If the disease is serious, you can use Qing Kai Ling intravenous drip or take Angong Niuhuang Pills under medical advice. How to prevent heat stroke? Most of the summer colds and heat strokes are caused by the sudden cold in the body and the reflexive ischemia of the nose and throat due to the cold in the blood, which weakens the resistance and causes the cold virus to take advantage of the situation. In the current hot weather, having heat stroke is not only bad for your body, but also for your daily work and life. So we should take precautions. Experts say that the prevention of heat stroke, daily habits are the key. The air conditioning temperature setting is not too low hot days, people like to stay in the air-conditioned room, some office air conditioning temperature is set very low, for a long time, the human body was blown to the limbs cold, coupled with closed doors and windows, indoor ventilation and bad, the air is not fresh. If you go out after work is a steam of hot air, hot and cold suddenly, it is easy to trigger a heat stroke. It is recommended that when using air conditioning in the room, the temperature setting should be appropriate, both comfortable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly room temperature should be about 26 ℃, the difference between indoor and outdoor temperature to not more than 7 ℃ is appropriate. Sleeping should also be another 1 to 2 ℃ higher. The desk should preferably not be arranged in a place where the cold wind blows directly. Should reduce the time spent in the air-conditioned room, appropriate to walk outside, strengthen the heat-resistant exercise, it is best to use the air conditioning as little as possible after returning home, especially do not sweat profusely directly into the air-conditioned room or blowing against the electric fan. You should first change out of your wet clothes and dry your sweat. Food should be light, but eat cold Diet should be based on light taste, avoid eating cold and greasy spicy food, the most critical is not to be cold. Because of the hot climate in summer, the body’s blood vessels expand, and qi and blood tend to the body surface. As the Suwen? The four times thorns reverse from the theory: “summer, full of gas overflow, into the Sun Loop to receive blood, the skin is full.” This results in a physiological state where Yang Qi is outside and Yin Qi is inside. The human gastrointestinal tends to become “fragile”, as manifested by reduced digestive juices, reduced gastric acid, loss of appetite, if a lot of cold drinks, eating too much cool food, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach Yang Qi, resulting in dysregulation of transportation, dampness blocking the qi, prone to diarrhea and colds. You can eat more bitter foods, such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, grass head, lily of the valley, marjoram, lettuce, yellow flowering vegetables, cicada. These foods are bitter or slightly bitter, both to clear the heart and eliminate annoyance, strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, but also to enhance appetite. In addition, it is important to drink more water. However, do not drink a lot of water in one gulp after a big sweat, but a small amount many times, in order to facilitate the absorption of the body; try not to drink drinking water with too low a temperature. The body temperature of the human body is usually high, ice drinks, ice water, cold drinks, etc., the temperature is generally lower than the stomach temperature of about 30 ℃, a large number of cold drinks into the body, it is easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, causing vasoconstriction, mucosal ischemia, thus weakening the gastrointestinal digestive function and bactericidal power, resulting in spasmodic pain, and even lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea. Normal people drink drinks at a temperature of 8 ℃ to 14 ℃ is appropriate. In the hot summer, you can put plain water or drinks into the refrigerator slightly refrigerated, but the time is best not to exceed half an hour, feel not icy hands when drinking again. Adequate sleep, work and rest combination Summer because of late to bed and early to rise, the relative lack of sleep, easy to sad, coupled with the summer heat consumes gas and injures Jin, if you stay at home or unit all day, no activity, easy to cause the body’s immune function is reduced, leading to the occurrence of colds. Therefore, in summer, first of all, to ensure adequate sleep, it is best to take a nap at noon, half an hour or so, in order to eliminate fatigue, renewed spirit. Of course, after a proper rest should be coupled with the right amount of exercise, “life lies in moderate exercise”, “flowing water does not rot, the household pivot is not worm-eaten”, exercise can make the blood flow, health and dispel disease. Regardless of what kind of sports are engaged in, it is appropriate not to be fatigued and not to sweat a lot; also emphasize the point that do not exercise during the cold, this practice of mending the sheep will only be counterproductive, because it increases the consumption of the body and reduces the resistance, but will make the disease worse. It is important to adhere to the exercise and strengthen the body in general. Keep a good mood human emotions and the external environment is closely related, when encountered with sustained high temperature, the human body is in a “state of irritability”, Chinese medicine has “summer must be sad” said. The hot summer heat is most likely to disturb the mind, can appear palpitations, heartburn, insomnia, impatience, irritability and other emotional changes. Often insomnia, anger is likely to cause a decline in immune function, the body’s ability to kill and swallow pathogenic microorganisms weakened, giving the pervasive respiratory virus to “take advantage of the opportunity”. Therefore, maintaining a good mood and open-mindedness can also play a role in preventing hot colds to a certain extent. As Suwen? The four qi to regulate the spirit of the great theory of the cloud: “so that the will without anger, so that Huaying into the show, so that the gas can be released, this is the summer qi should be, the way to nurture long.” That is to say, to make the spirit like a budding flower as beautiful, do not get angry, so that the organism’s qi is smooth and free to vent, this is the way to adapt to summer health.