When patients have a sore throat with phlegm after a cold, they can relieve their condition through general treatment and medication.
1. General treatment: patients should pay attention to rest, drink more water, maintain air circulation in the room, often open the windows to ventilate the room, but also should take a light diet, avoid spicy, stimulating food, for suspected and confirmed patients to isolate.
2. medication: the common cold does not require the use of antibiotics, when the patient combined with the symptoms of bacterial infection, can take amoxicillin, ampicillin, erythromycin and other antibiotics for treatment; viral colds are self-limiting, usually do not need to be treated with medication for immunodeficiency patients can be taken to take ribavirin, oseltamivir, etc. for treatment.
Patients can also use anti-inflammatory and expectorant drugs such as Dumiphene tablets, Yinhuang tablets, Furacilin solution, Bromhexine, Ammonium Chloride, Ambroxol, and other anti-inflammatory and expectorant drugs for treatment.
It is recommended that patients strictly follow the doctor’s instructions for the correct use of medication, do not change the dose of drugs or abuse of drugs without authorization, and try to avoid going to densely populated places in life, wear a mask when going out, so as to avoid the spread of the disease.