A doctor’s trip with a cold and high fever

  On Saturday, January 23, 2016, the city of Beijing welcomed a low temperature guest of minus 16 degrees, a rare occurrence in recent years. More than 5 pm, after more than 10 hours of travel back home, I felt extremely tired, dizzy and headache, with a doctor’s experience I know I have a cold, the reason is the external wind and cold plus journey in a hurry.  I. What should I do when the cold and heat come?  The first is to satisfy the hungry stomach as soon as possible, after the 8:00 a.m. breakfast, also owed lunch account, it is time to pay back; second, ready to deal with the possible arrival of 39 degrees of heat, prepare two quilts. Third, rest as soon as possible to recover the tired body as soon as possible, without delaying the clinic on Sunday morning. Soon I felt cold, the cold was getting heavier and heavier, and my body temperature was not high at this time. Drinking a bowl of sour soup, suddenly the whole body warmed up, and some slight sweat felt very comfortable. But it was only 5 minutes, then the cold came again, so I rushed to bed to rest, and at the time of going to bed, 7:00 p.m., the cold was increasing, and my whole body felt sore, especially my head and back, arms and ankles, and my body temperature was not high at that time. The pain in my body was increasing and I had to keep turning over to relieve it. After an hour the body felt colder and heavier, and also began to heat up, and as the pain increased, the frequency of turning over to reduce the pain also increased significantly. Half an hour later it rose to about 39 degrees (not measured with a thermometer, estimated based on the 39.2 temperature measured during last winter’s fever), and after the temperature rose, the uncomfortable level was further aggravated.  Second, cool down According to my own feeling and experience, there is no need to take cooling measures, the fever will go down in about 3 hours, last year and the winter before last had the same experience, also in the case without taking any physical and chemical methods about 3 hours to go down. Now it’s all about reducing the pain by constantly turning over and staying up for the fever to subside. After some time, I felt the cold sensation reduced significantly, and looked at the time of 11:30 p.m. Although the pain was still increasing, I knew that I would not be delayed in the specialist’s clinic tomorrow, and at 3:00 a.m., the pain also reduced significantly, so I prepared for sleep, and I set my ipad alarm clock at 5:30 p.m., and gradually fell asleep as I turned over less.  I woke up feeling sore and tired, and the alarm clock hadn’t gone off, so I thought I’d see what time it was and how much longer I could sleep. I couldn’t care less about my body aches and pains, so I got up immediately and got ready to go to work. Two students were already waiting in the consultation room. The two students smiled when they saw me and said they finally saw Mr. Li’s warm clothes. From 7:50 a.m., when the number was full, 2 numbers were added, and I sat until 11:40 p.m. when I finished dealing with all the patients in the clinic, and the treatment of patients’ conditions was not affected by the cold for nearly four hours. After the clinic, I felt even more tired, and at 12:00, I still had a patient who needed to be treated for a phone consultation. After the telephone consultation, I returned home at almost 1:30 after giving the patient a prescription and instructions on how to use the medicine. The main task at home was to rest, and since the pain was still there, I still needed to turn over to relieve it, but it was much better than last night.  When I woke up on Monday morning, I could only feel a slight pain, and on Monday night, I basically felt no more discomfort. This is the end of the cold and high fever trip.  I’m sure there must be more of you out there who have experienced this. Rest, physical cooling, herbal cooling, chemical cooling, whatever method you use, as long as it suits you, it is a good method. You can try my method (you need to be seen by a doctor for the first attempt).  In recent years, every year will have a cold and high fever experience, because usually like some physical exercise, such as: the year before last completed the Beijing Marathon full race, last year completed the Shanghai International Marathon full race and the Beijing Marathon full race, their own physical state feel okay, I believe the cold and high fever will be good without medicine, although the process has some pain, but also considered a doctor through to do patients, experience Although the process is a bit painful, it is also a doctor’s experience of being a patient and experiencing the feelings of a cold patient without any doctor and medical means. Especially since the process of several high fever colds since 2013 are very similar. Therefore, I will write down the experience of high fever this time, so please correct me. I also want to do a little keyboard warrior.