As the weather gets colder, especially in recent days when it has been bitterly cold, there has been a sharp increase in outpatients with colds, but many patients ask for infusion therapy regardless of whether they have fever, whether they have blood tests, or whether they have a basis for bacterial infection. Sometimes it is difficult to explain. So there are several misconceptions about the current treatment of colds: 1. Infusion is fast: as long as a cold and fever, some patients even only have a stuffy nose and runny nose with cough to the hospital to ask for an infusion to hang a bottle, that only infusion treatment to get better fast. Especially parents of children, always want their children to get well immediately. In fact, the common cold has its natural course. As long as you are not dehydrated, the principle is to take oral medication as much as possible. Infusion is risky, such as infusion reaction, drug allergic reaction, local vasculitis and other complications, a large amount of fluid can also cause damage to the young heart of children, increasing the burden on the heart and even cause heart failure. 2, hormones to reduce fever quickly: the use of hormones has strict indications and contraindications, but some doctors or the pursuit of efficacy or according to the patient’s request for rapid fever reduction, almost fever use, sometimes the application can improve the symptoms of poisoning. But repeated application will reduce immunity, long-term application of hormones have many side effects, especially for children, can cause obesity (pathological), osteoporosis, etc., for developing children more harm than good, it can be said that the loss is more than the gain 3, antibacterial anti-inflammatory fast: many fevers are caused by viruses, it is known that antibacterial agents can not do anything about viruses, and now there are almost no drugs in the world that have a significant effect on viruses. It is bacterial infection should also have bacterial drug sensitivity results to guide the use of antibiotics. But now some doctors and patients always think that antibacterial anti-inflammatory treatment for colds is fast, and many broad-spectrum antibiotics such as cephalosporins and quinolones are widely used. In fact, this not only rarely works and increases the economic burden of the family, but also easily causes dysbiosis of the normal flora in the patient’s body and produces many hidden dangers. More seriously, such widespread use, the germs are very easy to produce drug resistance, the future use of antibiotics is difficult to achieve the efficacy. Therefore, if it is only a common cold and there is no bacterial infection, Chinese medicine is the best treatment.