What to do if you have a cold that keeps coming back? Daily remedies work wonders

Cold is an annoying disease. It not only brings headaches, coughs and other discomforts, but also tends to recur. The recurrence of colds is due to the patient's weak physiological defense during the treatment process, which causes the virus to attack again. In addition to insisting on taking medicine to treat recurring colds, there are also some daily small remedies.

1: Failure to take medication as prescribed Some people take medication in time after catching a cold, but stop taking it as soon as the symptoms get a little better. In fact, the cold has not been eradicated. If you take medication only when the symptoms get worse, the cold will recur and the course of the disease will be prolonged. To treat a cold, you need to take medication continuously, in one go, to eradicate the root cause.

2: Improper use of medication. Colds are viral infections, and early use of antibiotics is generally ineffective. If you have just caught a cold, you can use antiviral agents or other antiviral Chinese and Western medicines. In addition, you can give symptomatic medications based on the patient's symptoms. If the cold has not healed after 4 days, it means there is a secondary bacterial infection, and antibacterial treatment should be the main treatment.

3: Not used to using local medications. The most common secondary infection of a cold that is delayed and not cured is purulent rhinitis. At this time, the nasal discharge of a cold patient becomes thick or yellow and purulent. The last resort is to use local antibacterial drops in the nose. If you still take the medicine without local treatment, the effect will be poor.

1: Rice vinegar This is a widely circulated folk recipe that is effective in preventing colds. Take 250 ml of rice vinegar, add 150 grams of rock sugar, simmer over low heat and cool. Take one teaspoon each time, twice a day, and can be taken for a long time.

2: This method of applying Chinese medicine externally is painless and easily accepted by children. Take 10 grams each of peach kernel and yam, 5 grams each of clove and cinnamon, grind all the herbs into fine powder, and mix them into a paste with egg white. Every night, take an appropriate amount of the paste and spread it on gauze, fix it to the Yongquan acupoints on both sides of the soles with tape, remove it the next morning, and use it for 3 consecutive days. Later, change it to once every other day, and 10 times is a course of treatment.

3: Ear acupuncture points: Take the bronchial, lung and spleen points of both ears, place 6 small green beans in the center of a 0.3 cm square tape, and stick them on the ear acupoints. Press the ear acupoints 4 times a day, each time for 1 to 2 minutes. Change every 5 days in summer and every 7 days in winter.

Daily food ingredients and some mild Chinese medicines can help us eliminate the trouble of recurring colds if used for a long time. They will not irritate the patient's body or cause other side effects. When using the above remedies, patients should pay attention to changes in their condition so that they can adjust their treatment methods in a timely manner.