Children’s colds are mainly based on the child’s symptoms to distinguish between wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds, such as wind-heat colds see heavy fever, sweat; wind-cold colds see light fever, no sweat, and so on. Wind-heat cold is a symptom caused by wind-heat. Clinical symptoms include heavy fever, slight wind, headache, sweating, sore throat, cough, sputum, yellow and sticky sputum, nasal congestion, yellow snot, and thirst. Wind-cold cold refers to the common cold caused by external wind-cold, and the patient mostly develops in winter. The patient mainly manifests severe cold, mild fever, nasal congestion and runny nose, sneezing, headache and so on. Wind-cold cold requires pungent warmth to relieve the symptoms, and can be taken as Jingpang septic toxin powder, wind-cold cold granules, etc. Wind-heat cold requires pungent coolness to relieve the symptoms, and can be taken as Yin Qiao San, Sang Ju Drink, etc. In daily life, children should take proper rest, drink more water, eat easy-to-digest diet, keep the indoor air fresh and maintain proper temperature and humidity, strengthen nursing care, pay attention to respiratory isolation, and prevent complications. If a child is diagnosed with a cold, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for timely treatment.