Concept
The so-called heat stroke refers to the common cold that occurs in summer. There are two kinds of colds: common cold and influenza, and heat stroke is a kind of common viral cold in summer. It is not contagious. About 50% of the patients with summer colds are suffering from “heat stroke”. People call the cold that occurs in the summer “heat stroke”, literally, as if “heat” is the cause of the cold, but in fact, the summer cold is usually a cold in which there is internal heat in the body, and then the wind evil, and often mixed with summer humidity.
”Heat cold” is called “summer Yin” in Chinese medicine, and it belongs to “summer cold” in the “four seasonal colds”. Red water Xuanzhu” Volume 1: “heat typhoid, coughing throat pain, face heat, which has phlegm and fire heat, heat or wind-cold bound by the wind can not be issued. This heat is the root, cold is the standard.” Classical Evidence for the Treatment of Wind: “Heat-induced wind, cough and sore throat, nasal congestion and vomiting of phlegm, with the addition and subtraction of elimination of wind san.”
Performance
Heavy fever, light chills, sweating without relief of fever, headache, head swelling like a cloud, chest tightness, nausea, sneezing, nasal congestion, thick nasal discharge, slight thirst, dry mouth, red and painful throat, cough, yellow and thick sputum, body aches, poor appetite, pale and sticky mouth, yellow urine, sticky and smelly stools, body aches, joint pains, general weakness, and other symptoms. Some patients may also experience vomiting or diarrhea, with thin white fur, sticky tongue, red tongue edge, and floating or moist pulse.
Differentiation
Colds are particularly seasonal, but each season has its own type of predilection. For example, winter and spring colds are mostly wind-cold, autumn colds are mostly wind-heat colds, and summer colds are mostly caused by heat and dampness, or what we often call “heat typhoid”.
Unlike winter colds, summer colds are rarely caught by others in public places like winter and spring colds. While autumn and winter colds are mainly colds attacked by cold evil, summer colds are usually colds with internal heat in the body and then wind evil, and are often accompanied by summer humidity. In addition, summer colds are characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, and other summer dampness, in addition to the usual cold symptoms.
The fever of typhoid is heavy fever and light cold, usually the patient does not feel cold, just fever, sweating a lot but sweating out the fever does not go away. In winter, the fever will basically go down once the fever is sweating.
Look at the tongue, normal people have a thin and white tongue moss on their tongues, but people with summer humidity colds have a thick, sticky and greasy tongue moss. The headache feels like something is hoisted on the head, the body is lazy, there is no appetite, and even nausea and vomiting; or there is diarrhea, and the stool is particularly smelly.
There is also a difference between heat stroke and heat stroke and fire. Heat stroke is a condition in which excessive heat causes profuse sweating, resulting in panic, black eyes, and deficiency. Some patients have a sore throat, dry mouth and thirst, and cough, and their symptoms are similar to those of a fire, but heat typhoid is a case of internal heat and external cold, and will have some upper respiratory symptoms, while fire does not have the symptoms of cold.
Causes
Most summer colds are not caused by external infectious agents in a public environment like winter and spring colds, but are triggered by a sudden cold in the body.
From the internal causes: 1, due to the hot climate in summer, the human body has a strong metabolism and high energy consumption, the human body sweats more, and the secretion of sweat glands consumes a lot of energy; 2, the long daylight hours in summer, the sultry weather also tends to affect people’s sleep and rest, resulting in lack of sleep; 3, in summer, due to the hot climate, people’s appetite suddenly decreases and turns to the intake of light food, which will affect the supply of protein; 4, the summer heat, people are generally lazy to move, too little activity, reducing the time for physical exercise.
The main external causes are the desire for coolness.
1, some people are hot and sweaty with cold water to rinse their heads or take a cold shower, get cold in the rain.
2, some people love to cool in the shade, in the channel, on the balcony, or even sleep in the open wind chill; sleep without covers, long time blowing fan.
3, some people for the desire to cool the air conditioning open too long, coupled with the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is too large, the body can not adapt to a moment, resulting in closed sweat.
The body is suddenly cooled, so that the blood is cooled, and reflexively caused by the nose and throat momentary ischemia, easy to make the original lurking in the respiratory tract of germs, viruses take advantage of the situation, resulting in the occurrence of colds.
Heat typhoid can occur in young and middle-aged people, the elderly, children, it should be said that the resistance of young and middle-aged people is very strong, but in fact, many young and middle-aged people lack of regularity in life, including the diet is not regular, so it is easy to cause a decline in resistance. The immunity of the elderly is relatively low, and children’s organs are not fully developed. Especially for some people who are thin, have low upper respiratory resistance and are busy, it is easier to catch a cold.
Misconceptions
1, identify the use of proprietary Chinese medicine: summer cold to distinguish the type first, do not take drugs on their own. If the summer heat stroke if also like the winter cold to eat antipyretic effect will not be good, and there are certain side effects. For example, ginger, red pond and other sweat medicine, after using it will be as fuel on the fire. Many of the over-the-counter (OTC) Chinese medicines such as Huo Xiang Zheng Qi soft capsules, Pan Lan Gen punch, Yin Qiao Detox tablets, etc. are indeed milder and some of them are more generic, but they still need to be targeted. Huo Xiang Zheng Qi is a very classic medicine to dispel summer dampness and treat heat and cold. It is not scientific to take Huo Xiang Zheng Qi without dialectical treatment. If you have a hot phase, dry mouth, thirst, just eat Huo Xiang Zheng Qi without adding some drugs to clear the heat and detoxify the toxins, is not the right symptoms; Zheng Chai Hu drink is for wind-cold patients with drugs, if given to patients with heat, it is not the right symptoms. Therefore, it is best to ask the pharmacist for guidance before purchasing.
2, prohibit bitter cold fire medicine: some people have a hot typhoid, mistakenly thought that the so-called “internal fire” is too big, they will buy some “fire medicine” to take, this practice is very inappropriate. Because this indiscriminately take bitter cold “defeat fire medicine”, it will lead the evil into the, make the respiratory symptoms intensify, counterproductive, make the condition aggravated.
3, careful use of antibiotics: about 80% of colds are caused by viruses, antibiotics do not work on viruses, as long as the cold does not cause bacterial inflammation, do not apply antibiotics. According to reports, at present, about 75% of our outpatients with colds use antibiotics, and there are more families who use antibiotics.
4, timely treatment of colds, prolonged mutations: young people are strong, the cold is not heavy is possible to carry over, but for children and the elderly is not so, must be treated. As the cold is not cured, it will produce various complications and induce the attack of some diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, etc.. In the clinic, we often see patients who can’t resist for a few days at home, but when they arrive at the hospital, they are not common colds anymore, but more serious diseases such as pneumonia. This is even more important for the elderly who are already weak and sick.
If the prognosis of summer cold does not cause complications, such as special pain in the head or other parts of the body, or a long period of continuous high fever, then the patient only needs to eat some patchouli and other medicines, plus enough rest, generally about 1 week to heal. If the fever does not go away for 3 days and the headache is more than 5 days, the patient should go to the hospital promptly.
Treatment
1.When fever starts, the fever is heavy, the chill is light, the sweat is not relieved, headache, head swelling like a cloud, chest tightness, nausea, sneezing, nasal congestion, thick nasal discharge, slight thirst, dry mouth, red and painful throat, cough, yellow and thick sputum, body aches and pains, nausea, poor appetite, light and sticky mouth, yellow urine, sticky and smelly stool, sluggish body, aching joints, general weakness and other symptoms. You can take some patchouli water (soft capsule).
If there are symptoms such as red and sore throat, irritable and thirsty heart, short and red urine, it is advisable to take Chinese medicine such as Banlangen Punch and Yin Qiao Detoxification Tablets.
If you also have fever and urine, you can take Liu Yi San together.
If the body is hot and sweatless, raw onion can be used to boil the soup and take the medicine.
For more severe summer colds, Chinese herbal soup (such as Xinjia Elsholtzholtzholtzholtzholtzholtz, Sanren Tang, etc.) can be used for treatment.
2. In summer, there is usually internal heat in the body, and the symptoms of fire appear.
The actual practice of scraping is as follows: take cold water half bowl as lubricant. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. Then pull the palm of the patient’s hand with the left hand, rub the palm of the right hand from the patient’s elbow joint down to the wrist joint several times, then shake several times, and grab the patient’s lower limbs, rub the right hand from the knee joint to the palm of the foot several times, grab the palm of the foot with both hands and shake several times, and grab the toes and pull them outward to hear the sound of the joint. Finally, let them take patchouli water, the patient will immediately feel comfortable and relaxed.
3.Commonly used proprietary Chinese medicine
(1) Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui (soft capsule): common medicine to dispel summer heat. It dispels summer heat and disperses cold, strengthens the stomach and harmonizes the middle. The main clinical manifestations are fever, chills, sweating without relief, headache, heavy head like a wrap, heavy limbs, chest tightness, joint pain, abdominal distension and diarrhea, etc.
(2) Wind-heat cold and flu punch: pungent and cool relieving herbs. Clearing heat and detoxifying the toxin, promoting lung and throat. It mainly treats cold and fever, nasal congestion, headache, cough and phlegm.
(3) Sang Ju Cold Tablet: Pungent and cooling medicine for relieving symptoms. Clearing wind and heat, promoting lung and relieving cough. Mainly used for treating the initial onset of wind-heat colds, headache, cough, dry mouth and sore throat. Mostly used for influenza and wind-heat cold at the beginning of the disease is still light.
(4) Yin Chai Granules: Clearing heat and detoxifying medicine. Clearing heat, relieving symptoms and relieving cough. Mainly for wind-heat cold and fever and cough.
(5) Yin Qiao detoxification tablets: pungent, cool and detoxify the surface, clear heat and detoxify. Mainly used for treating wind-heat cold, fever and headache, slightly evil wind and cold, cough, dry mouth, sore throat, red tongue with thin white coating. It is often used in the initial stage of influenza, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, acute pharyngitis, mumps, otitis media, urticaria and sores and toxins with the above symptoms.
(6) Antelope antidote pills (or tablets): a common medicine for relieving symptoms of pungent and cold. It is used for treating wind-heat cold, fever, dizziness, cough and sore throat, redness and swelling of the cheeks, etc.
(7) Pancreatic root punch: clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and throat, reducing swelling. Mainly for tonsillitis, mumps, sore throat, prevention and treatment of infectious hepatitis, pediatric measles, etc.
8) Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: Clearing heat and detoxifying medicine. Mainly for the treatment of viral and bacterial infections and inflammation. Suitable for upper respiratory tract infection, acute tonsillitis, viral pneumonia and other diseases caused by fever, chest pain, cough, redness and pain in the throat.
Prevention
1.Tune your mind: In summer, you should tune your spirit, protect your mind, not be anxious, have something to do, and not be empty in spirit, but not overly stressed.
2, exercise: first of all, we should strengthen physical exercise to enhance physical fitness, can be different according to the age and physical condition, a variety of physical activities. To develop the habit of regular outdoor activities, such as radio exercises, taijiquan, eight duanjin, running, swimming, etc., but also according to the weather changes pay attention to increase clothing, to prevent amaranthine.
3, life: maintain indoor and outdoor environmental health, air conditioning temperature is not too low, the room should pay attention to regularly open the window ventilation, to keep the indoor air fresh. Do not sleep outside the house at night, do not share the fan, not in the hall of the 鎏缥莺 down, root sleep, so as not to be nasty. When sweating, use a towel to dry in time, do not immediately take a cold shower or use the air conditioner or fan to blow directly to cool down, and do not frequently go in and out of the air conditioning room. In the office it is best to adjust the air conditioning temperature to more than 24 ℃, keep the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor does not exceed 7 ℃, so as not to increase the burden on the thermoregulatory center. Be careful not to sit in a place where the cold wind is blowing directly, because the air flow is faster there, the temperature will be 3 ℃ to 4 ℃ lower. When using car air conditioning, do not adjust the temperature too low, the temperature difference between inside and outside the car within 10 ℃ is appropriate. After returning home from work, it is best to take a warm bath, while the shoulders, knees and other self-massage to help blood flow smoothly.
4, living: maintain adequate sleep and rest, change bad habits, reduce smoking to reduce the damage to the respiratory mucosa. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, work in moderation, to avoid long-term overworked state.
5, diet: diet should be arranged scientifically and reasonably, do not overeat; drink cold drinks in moderation; eat more fruits, fresh vegetables, vitamin foods such as tomatoes, watermelon, prunes, peaches, plums, etc. contain a lot of vitamin C; cereals, beans, animal liver, lean meat, eggs, contains a large number of vitamin B. Food is mainly light, avoid greasy high fat spicy hot things. Advocate drinking porridge, mung bean soup, red bean soup, that is, to quench thirst, cool and quench the summer, but also to nourish the body. Should also drink more heat and moisture food, such as bitter melon, cucumber, mung beans, etc.. You should pay attention to drink more plain water to facilitate the discharge of toxic substances.
Once suffering from “heat stroke”, first of all, we should drink more water, do not greedy cold, can be appropriate to take patchouli water, etc.. Secondly, you should also enhance your own physical fitness, to ensure adequate sleep and rest, to enhance the body’s ability to resist disease.
If you have family members suffering from heat stroke, you can use vinegar fumigation method to disinfect the air.
Several kinds of dietary therapy to prevent and control heat stroke: 1, clear the summer and dispel dampness tea: fresh lentil flower, fresh lotus leaf, fresh rose flower 20 grams each. The first lotus leaf cut into thin shreds, and lentil flowers, rose flowers into a container, add 500 ml of water, decoction into a thick juice, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, drink as tea. 2, patchouli leaves porridge: fresh patchouli leaves 20 grams, decoction soup with sugar, served 3 to 4 times a day. Or first 100 grams of japonica rice porridge, add patchouli juice boiling, that is, patchouli porridge, the appropriate amount to take. 3, watermelon juice: remove the seeds of watermelon to take the flesh, gauze stranded juice, served as a substitute for tea frequently. 4, three flowers soup: white chrysanthemum 15 grams, honeysuckle 20 grams, white lentil flowers 15 grams. The three flavors placed in an enamel container, add water decoction soup drink on behalf of tea. 5, mung beans thin porridge: mung beans 20 grams, 30 grams of round-grained rice. First boil the mung beans, to be slightly soft, then add the japonica rice, and then cook until the rice is cooked to degree, add the appropriate amount of rock sugar to eat.