Autumn wind, the first cold, cold and warm, cold and flu patients surge. That in the end how to use medicine, with what medicine it, as a doctor, I would like to share my own experience of cold and flu to everyone: a night shift, headache severe, joint pain, fatigue. Ask the nurse sister to measure the temperature, 38.7 degrees Celsius, serving a piece of Bakunin (day tablets, did not dare to serve the night tablets, for fear that the night there is a situation, too much sleep to hear the nurse sister’s call [huh] [huh]), drinking water and incidentally rushed a packet of Chaihu (anyway, can not understand the wind cold and wind heat and what have you, the only thing on hand is that, just drink), night sweating, got up and took a bath the next day the symptoms are better, do not have a fever, there is still a little Nasal congestion, a little runny, continue to take Zheng Chaihu as a tea, in addition, drinking water is a must :), so a few days, the cold since the cure. Once again, for no apparent reason, I started to have a sore throat, which cuts like a knife when I eat, without fever. Take the spoon to self-mutilation, endure the feeling of violent vomiting, look at the throat, feel the congestion is obvious, but did not see pus, what to do? Took two days of Blue Scutellaria Oral Liquid (clearing heat and removing toxins, clearing the throat and relieving the throat), the pain is still obvious, should I take some antibiotics? I’m a little torn. Check a blood test to see :), the result shows everything is normal, continue to take blue scutellaria, and keep a light diet, and supplemented with tablets, so about 1 week, the symptoms completely disappeared. Once again, the symptoms are similar to those mentioned above, but the examination found that the tonsils are obviously suppurating, there is nothing to hesitate, amoxicillin on (in fact, there is no such thing as what people think, nowadays, doctors talk about antibiotics, because the use of antibiotics is now very strictly controlled, but I would like to say that most of the time it is true that it is used excessively, but it must be on when it should be used), and at the same time, add Blue Scutellaria (it seems a bit like an advertisement, but for the pharyngitis, the effect is really good oh!) , the symptoms completely disappeared after 5 days of continuous use. Another time, this time a little “big”. First of all, the sore throat, served blue scutellaria soon relieved, but began to cough, mainly dry cough, is the kind of cough can not help cough (I think, this experience only have had people can appreciate), daytime is fine, drink some water, a burst of coughing, but a day shift (as we all know, we go to the clinic, and the patient basically have to talk to the day to the night) down after work to relax a little bit, that kind of coughing? (Laughs bitterly) can not sleep at night, once lying down, coughing desperately, used the syrup, did the nebulizer, seems to be not good, checked the blood routine, there is nothing special found. Then I thought, could it be mycoplasma infection? I also took azithromycin, but the effect is not obvious, in the end, the colleagues said is not tuberculosis? I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to get a good deal more than that, but I’m sure I’m going to be able to get a good deal more than that. Leave to rest is certainly not possible (cry), consult a respiratory brother, suggested that the service Menglust (a kind of inhibition of airway response to the amount of drugs), and suggested that the continuous service one to two months to serve a week from the gradual alleviation of symptoms, and then insisted on the completion of a course of treatment. After summarizing the above four cold experiences, I wonder if it will help you cope with colds. You may feel that I mentioned a lot of drugs above, which brings you confusion, so let’s talk about cold and flu medicines. In fact, all commonly used cold and flu medicines can be roughly divided into three types if they are to be categorized: the first, proprietary Chinese medicines, these medicines include Zheng Chaihu, Qingkailing, Xiao Chaihu, Banlangen, Lianhua Qingdian capsule, Blue Scutellaria oral solution, etc. The development of traditional Chinese medicine so far has resulted in the emergence of a wide variety of proprietary Chinese medicines in addition to the original Chinese medicinal herbs. Of course, Chinese medicine is concerned about wind-cold and wind-heat syndrome, the use of different medicines, which I really can not grasp, not too familiar, but in general, as far as I understand, wind-cold is mainly cold, fever, light, no sweat, nasal congestion and clear nasal mucus, the mouth is not thirsty or thirsty like hot drinks. Wind-heat is fever, sweating, yellow snot, yellow phlegm, sore throat, like drinking water, yellow urine and other symptoms commonly known as fire. It still seems like you get wind-heat more often :). It’s actually hard to tell the difference, so I just get some and take it, or mix it up (giggle). On second thought, foreigners don’t have herbs or anything, so what do they do? That’s why it was mentioned that it’s important to drink water with a cold, usually plain water will do, and when you sweat a lot you can drink some salted boiled water (to replace the salt lost in sweat). Of course, it is also important to get plenty of rest after a cold if possible. The second type of medicine is what we usually call “cold medicine”. These include Benadryl, White & Black, Neo-Containol, Crack, etc. These are usually compounded. These are usually compound preparations, basically including antipyretic, analgesic, cough suppressant, anti-allergy and vasoconstrictor drugs and other ingredients, different varieties, may be slightly different specific ingredients and dosage, but the overall similarity. Although these are over-the-counter medications, they should not be taken casually. When using them, the first thing to look at is whether they are symptomatic and whether the symptoms mentioned above are present. Secondly, the dose of these drugs should also be controlled, do not look at the over-the-counter drugs, overdose or long service time will bring certain effects, such as the most commonly used antipyretic and analgesic: acetaminophen, a large number of or long-term use of the gastrointestinal function can be impaired, which may lead to thrombocytopenia and leukopenia, and even liver and kidney damage, the elderly or the physically weak people take the drug a lot of sweating easily lead to dehydration. Such as pseudoephedrine, with a slight vasoconstriction and increase heart rate, the elderly, coronary heart disease and hypertension should be used with caution. So, are these drugs can not be used ah? Of course not, it should be said that “medicine is three times poisonous”, to be used with caution. In fact, these drugs for the improvement of symptoms does have greater help, but for the overall course of the cold, the role of limited, so the short-term or temporary use is still very good. The third type, of course, is antibiotics. Regarding whether or not to use antibiotics for colds, the view of most doctors is that it is not necessary. You should know that our country is one of the countries with the most serious antibiotic abuse in the world (when I say one, it may be a bit implicit, I should say that it is :)). In recent years, under the vigorous rectification of the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, the abuse of antibiotics in the clinic has been significantly improved, and it seems to be a bit of overkill again. In recent years, there are many incidents of delayed treatment caused by the use of antibiotics in clinic. From my point of view, there is a degree of anything, should not be used resolutely do not use, change the use of must be used. For colds, for sure, antibiotics should not be used as routine treatment. Why? Because most colds are caused by viruses, antibiotics are useless. I see some patients, a little bit of nasal congestion, runny nose on the early amoxicillin, cephalosporin on, this is certainly not right. So, antibiotics are not used at all? This is certainly not desirable, clinically for those who have obvious bacterial infection (such as high blood), underlying diseases, poor health, immunocompromised, can be appropriately relaxed antibiotic application indications, or even prophylactic use of antibiotics. I remember I have a patient, a postoperative lung cancer patient, three consecutive times because of a cold without antibiotics led to pneumonia, so now every time she catches a cold I will give a little antibiotic early prevention, once the cold gets better, stop as soon as possible. The above is just a little bit of my experience, and I offer it as a reference for you, and I hope it can help. If sometimes I say something incorrectly, please include more and criticize more.