Fever, nausea, headache ...... teaches you the difference between the common cold and gastrointestinal flu

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We are as familiar with the cold as an old friend, and we know when we are about to catch a cold with a sneeze. But this old friend, the cold, often has different types of prevalence depending on the season.

For example, now in the hot summer, the "cold" will easily lead to the occurrence of gastrointestinal colds.

Gastrointestinal colds are more common in summer!

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A 10-year-old girl was diagnosed as having a gastrointestinal cold after she had a sudden onset of abdominal distention and pain, nausea and vomiting, headache, and low fever with a body temperature of 37.5℃ due to eating cold drinks and an uncontrolled diet.

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Zhang, a 73-year-old man, drank a can of cold beer because of the unbearable heat and difficulty in sleeping, and the next day he had vomiting and diarrhea, reduced appetite, and fever, and was diagnosed as having a gastrointestinal cold.

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Fever, nausea, headache ...... teaches you the difference between the common cold and gastrointestinal flu

Lingling, an 8-year-old girl, got cold from sleeping on the floor and blowing on the fan after swimming in the heat, and developed fever with a temperature of 38.4℃ on the next morning, accompanied by persistent headache, vomiting and diarrhea.

This shows that the gastrointestinal flu is not ordinary! It has a high incidence, and the symptoms come fast and heavy! Many patients will be treated as a common cold, antipyretics, antidiarrheal drugs, not only the symptoms do not improve, but will lead to aggravation of the disease.

Therefore, it is very important to correctly identify the gastrointestinal flu and take correct treatment measures in time!

What is gastrointestinal flu? What are the symptoms?

The Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Efficacy Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Colds states that gastrointestinal colds are illnesses caused by wind, cold, summer heat, dampness and other external evils attacking the muscular surface and digestive system, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cold or wind and fever as the main symptoms.

It can be simply understood that the occurrence of gastrointestinal colds is related to large temperature changes, exposure to cold, eating cold food, etc., which affects gastrointestinal function and a decrease in immunity. The main symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and some patients may also have headache, nasal congestion and runny nose.

The right way to distinguish the gastrointestinal flu from the common cold

Compared with the common cold, both have symptoms such as fever, runny nose and cough, but the gastrointestinal cold is mainly characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms, i.e., nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, multiple bowel movements a day, and a feeling of weakness and lack of energy.

For the common cold, upper respiratory symptoms are the main symptoms, that is, runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat, sore throat, cough, low fever, etc., while most people do not have symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, etc.

Many people use the wrong medicine for gastrointestinal colds!

As soon as the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea appear, the first thing many patients think of is to take antidiarrheal medicine to relieve them, and fever to take antipyretic medicine... But as in the case of the 8-year-old girl Lingling, despite taking antipyretic and cold medicine treatment, the symptoms temporarily improved, but the symptoms immediately relapsed after the expiration date, and even more serious than before, and the reason for all this lies in.

Use the wrong medicine!

Mistaking the gastrointestinal cold as a common cold treatment, without removing the evil in the body, will only delay the disease and make it worse. The gastrointestinal cold is a special kind of cold and should be treated differently.

The use of antidiarrheal or antipyretic drugs alone can only temporarily relieve the surface symptoms, but the external evil that invades the body is not cleared and the treatment is not complete, so it can lead to recurrence of the disease or even delay the condition.

Chinese medicine has a good remedy for gastrointestinal colds!

The ancients used to treat dampness and stagnation of cold and flu with the usual party - Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San, which relieves the surface and resolves dampness, regulates qi and harmonizes the middle. However, some problems have been found in long-term practice, such as the weak effect of Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San in removing dampness.

In response to these problems, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital collaborated to improve the new formula, namely Shanghai Medicine Brand Zhengqi Tablets, which is a comprehensive upgrade of Huoxiang Zhengqi San. On the whole, Zheng Qi Tablets are safe and effective in dispelling dampness and moving Qi, which can not only remove dampness from the body, but also improve the symptoms of nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain.

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In addition, in addition to medication, patients with gastrointestinal colds should drink more water to promote the elimination of toxins; they can eat easily digestible liquid food such as egg custard and rice soup, and pay attention to more rest to help them recover.

Editor / Sun Chong

Source / Health Times