Can cold medicine be used to reduce fever

Cold medications are generally not used to simply reduce fever. Cold medicine in clinical practice mainly refers to the compound cold medicine, these compound cold medicine contains a variety of active ingredients, including fever-reducing ingredients, such as most of them contain acetaminophen or ibuprofen and other drugs, these drugs belong to the non-steroidal antipyretic and analgesic drugs, can be used to reduce fever, but the compound cold medicine also contains some antihistamines and cough medicine, these ingredients do not have the corresponding clinical These ingredients do not need to be used if there are no clinical symptoms. In addition, some proprietary Chinese medicines for the treatment of colds are not used to reduce fever, such as Lianhua Qingfei capsule, Qingkailing granules and other drugs. Therefore, if you have fever, it is recommended to choose simple antipyretic and analgesic drugs for treatment according to the degree of fever, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, diclofenac sodium, etc.