There is no such thing as whether it is better to take fluids or medication to treat a cold; whether it is better to take fluids or medication depends on whether there are complications. Common cold can be cured on its own, if necessary, you can choose medication; if complications occur, you can choose infusion treatment. 1. Common cold: If there is no obvious systemic discomfort after catching a cold, and only mild nasal congestion and runny nose, you can strengthen nutrition through diet and drink more water, ensure sufficient sleep and other ways to promote the improvement of the cold, and there is a possibility of self-healing, generally no need to take medication or infusion. 2. Complications: If the cold further aggravates, manifested by obvious cough, cough sputum increase, fever, generalized weakness, loss of appetite and even coughing up blood, dyspnea, etc., indicating that the condition is serious, if combined with the chest CT, blood tests and other tests suggest that there is a pneumonia complication, then you can take the infusion treatment, the drug can enter the human body more quickly, and to play its role in improving the clinical symptoms. Therefore, whether to choose infusion or medicine for colds, which way is better, can not be generalized, it is recommended that colds and flu in a timely manner, the treatment needs to be determined by the physician according to the actual situation of the condition; when it comes to oral medication, you must follow the guidance of the physician, can not be used privately.