What are the treatments for colds?

Patients who are seriously ill or old and frail should pay attention to bed rest, avoid smoking, drink more water, pay attention to strengthening nutrition, pay attention to easy digestion and light diet, keep air flow in the room, and pay attention to preventing complications. Cold with fever, headache, muscle aches, cough, sore throat can choose some antipyretic and analgesic drugs, while applying to relieve a variety of cold symptoms, compound anti-cold preparations, such as compound aspirin, diclofenac tablets, day and night Baclofen, etc.. Patients with symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose can use compound anti-cold preparations containing pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and paracetamol. Patients with cough that affects their rest can take some powerful cough medicines such as cough suppressant and codeine, and those with thick sputum can use phlegm-suppressing medicines such as Bicuculline and Mucosolvan. Unless combined with bacterial infections, antibiotics are not recommended for the treatment of common cold patients. The incidence of children’s colds is higher, up to 6 to 8 times a year, and when the body temperature is often above 38 ℃, you can take drugs to reduce fever, which can be repeated once every 4 hours. The head can be cooled with cold towels to prevent the appearance of fever convulsions. The medication for cooling can be aspirin or acetaminophen. In the case of febrile convulsions, anti-convulsants can be administered intramuscularly with phenobarbital. If you use traditional Chinese medicine, you can consult your doctor to choose Pediatric Lung Fever and Cough and Asthma Oral Liquid, Pediatric Cold and Flu Punch, Vitamin C Yin Qiao Tablet, Children’s Lung Clearing Pill, Pediatric Throat Clearing Punch, Banlangen Punch, Shuang Huang Lian Oral Liquid, Pediatric Hui Chun Pill, Pediatric Qing Fever San, etc. Children sometimes also have abdominal pain. If there is a painful sensation on light pressure around the umbilicus, it is important to consider the emergence of mesenteric lymphadenitis. If the abdominal pain is severe and does not improve, parents should promptly take their infant or child to the hospital for medical attention.