You should also go to an otolaryngologist if you have a cold.

In recent years, the number of patients with chronic pharyngolaryngitis, chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, acute and chronic otitis media has been increasing due to the fact that they go to the drugstore to buy their own cold medicines when they have a cold, or go to pediatrics or internal medicine departments for incomplete treatment. Some of these patients have to be treated surgically. In fact, the cold is also acute rhinitis acute pharyngitis, go to the pediatrics, internal medicine doctors generally use a flashlight to illuminate the pharynx, flashlight light is often weak, dark yellow is difficult to see the pharyngeal situation, but also can not be checked to the nasal cavity, the ear, and even more so can not be checked to the nasopharyngeal, laryngopharyngeal, so pediatrics, internal medicine doctors often tell the patient pharyngeal red, tonsillar inflammation, etc., often to The pediatricians and internists often tell the patients that they have red throat and tonsils inflammation, and often diagnose them with “upper respiratory tract infection” and prescribe cold medicines and antibiotics to control the symptoms. In fact, antibiotics are usually not needed. The upper respiratory tract is the ear, nose, throat and larynx, and the pharynx is divided into nasopharynx, oropharynx and laryngopharynx, and pediatricians can only see the oropharynx. So now many experienced pediatric internists will let the patient to go to the otolaryngology examination, especially the pediatric cold, because it is easy to cause sinusitis, otitis media. Our people have long formed the habit of children with colds to go to the pediatrics, adults to go to the internal medicine. In fact, the “cold” on the ear, nose and throat to do a specialized examination to see the onset of the main nasal cavity, sinuses, or nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, etc., so that the treatment can be done to target the treatment, will have the best results, not to turn to sinusitis, otitis media, etc., because the earlier the discovery and the earlier the treatment of these diseases the better, and should be as far as possible in the acute period of the They should be detected and treated in time during the acute stage so that they do not turn into chronic diseases. We often encountered in the clinic in pediatric internal medicine treatment of colds 1-2 weeks do not get better, and more and more serious patients, but also found a few cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, pharyngeal carcinoma since 1-2 months in the internal medicine according to the treatment of colds in patients. Otitis media is often a complication of inflammatory diseases such as rhinitis and pharyngitis. Many patients with symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, runny nose, they think it is a cold and go to pediatrics and internal medicine. And actually it is allergic rhinitis. Pediatric colds with otitis media will not say lead to hearing loss, often in the college entrance examination physical examination only to find that it has been late, there are many to ENT otitis media, rhinitis, sinusitis patients, are in the pediatrics, internal medicine treatment is not good, only to transfer to the ENT department, which delayed the best treatment time, colds and flu to go to pediatrics, internal medicine is a long time people’s habit of medical treatment, the health department does not provide for should go to that Section to go to the clinic, and many of the hospitals below the county level did not open the ENT department, the patient hung up the number of the section, the section of the doctor to the treatment, if at the same time there are children with high fever, tracheitis can first go to the pediatric internal medicine treatment. So patients should have some medical knowledge in this area, it is very good for themselves.