What is the best treatment for a mild cold?

Written by Li Jian Wu
Pulmonology
Updated on December 25, 2024
00:00
00:00

Minor colds generally do not require medication. If your resistance is normal, adjusting your diet and ensuring proper rest usually allows for natural recovery. In terms of diet, it's important to avoid overly greasy, high-calorie foods, prevent overeating, maintain indoor air cleanliness, drink more ginger tea, avoid staying up late, take your temperature twice daily, and consume fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C, such as kiwi, tomatoes, dragon fruit, and mango. Typically, recovery occurs within three to seven days.

Other Voices

doctor image
home-news-image
Written by Ye Xi Yong
Infectious Diseases
26sec home-news-image

Is gastroenteritis contagious?

Gastrointestinal cold is a type of common cold, mainly caused by Coxsackie virus. Its main symptoms include stomach pain, bloating, vomiting, diarrhea, tiredness, etc. Gastrointestinal cold is generally non-contagious. A contagious illness is generally referred to as influenza, which is caused by the influenza virus and can lead to widespread outbreaks.

doctor image
home-news-image
Written by Li Jian Wu
Pulmonology
41sec home-news-image

What should I do if I feel cold when I have a cold?

What should I do if I feel cold during a cold? This phenomenon is an early sign of chills in a cold, which is a feeling of being cold, and it might be followed by a fever. You should drink more ginger sugar water now, rest, and promote metabolism. If you have already developed symptoms of a fever, patients with mild symptoms can take physical measures to reduce fever. If the temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, you need to take antipyretic analgesic drugs for symptomatic treatment. After the temperature returns to normal, the cold feeling will gradually disappear. This is a common clinical symptom of colds, so there is no need to worry too much.

doctor image
home-news-image
Written by Wang Chun Mei
Pulmonology
1min 1sec home-news-image

Cold with nasal congestion, fear of cold, and sweating is what kind of cold?

A cold, also known as an upper respiratory tract infection, often occurs due to decreased immune function, inadvertent exposure to cold, or infection by certain viruses, bacteria, or pathogens, leading to clinical symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, fever, sore throat, and chills. When a patient with a cold has a fever, it invariably causes a sensation of chilliness throughout the body, along with cold extremities. If such patients are given appropriate antiviral, heat-clearing, detoxifying, and fever-reducing medications for symptomatic treatment, usually after the fever subsides, a process of sweating occurs, which is very common in clinical practice, especially in cases of febrile colds. Therefore, in clinical practice, regardless of the type of cold causing the fever or symptoms like nasal congestion, it is essential to provide timely symptomatic treatment with medications to alleviate these uncomfortable clinical symptoms.

doctor image
home-news-image
Written by Zhang Shu Kun
Traditional Chinese Medicine
40sec home-news-image

Is kidney qi deficiency prone to colds?

Patients with insufficient kidney qi are more likely to catch colds. This is because a deficiency in kidney qi can affect vitality, leading to slower bodily functions. Insufficient nurturing of vitality results in lethargy, lack of sleep, and reduced memory, thereby increasing the susceptibility to colds. This is especially true for male patients, where severe deficiency in kidney qi can lead to symptoms such as impotence and premature ejaculation. Additionally, it leads to lower bodily resistance and insufficient yang qi, as well as cold aversion, thus timely treatment is essential.

doctor image
home-news-image
Written by Li Jian Wu
Pulmonology
38sec home-news-image

Is the sore throat caused by a cold-cold or a cold-heat cold?

Sore throat is generally caused by wind-heat cold, while wind-cold cold is caused by exposure to wind and cold, clinically manifested by mild fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, and no sore throat. Wind-heat cold is caused by exposure to wind-heat, typically presenting with severe fever, chills, dry mouth, sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, and yellow phlegm. However, sore throat can also be caused by cold enclosing heat. During a cold, it is important to pay attention to a light diet and avoid eating overly greasy or spicy food.