What about viral fever and cough?

What about viral fever and cough? In our life, the most common thing is a fever and a cold, which is an inevitable ailment. But now colds and fevers are also caused by viruses and bacteria. So what about viral fever and cough? Come and have a look with me.

How to do with viral fever and cough 1

Viral fever is an immune response caused by viral infection. Only when the virus is excreted will the fever disappear naturally. Generally, a fever can be cured in 3-5 days, but it takes about a week for a virus infection to recover. Specifically, children's own resistance has also been underestimated. There is no special drug treatment for viral infection, but it can be cured with some cold medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs.

After taking the medicine, the inflammation in the body cannot be eliminated immediately, so it is normal to have a fever repeatedly, but if the fever persists for more than 3-5 days, you should go to the hospital for examination.

When babies have a viral cold and fever, they must drink plenty of water. At the same time, we should pay attention to keep warm, avoid catching a cold again, pay attention to diet, mainly light, and prohibit eating spicy and greasy food.

How to prevent viral fever and cough?

1, exercise and enhance physical fitness

Usually take part in outdoor activities, moderate exercise is conducive to enhancing physical fitness, improving resistance and preventing viral colds. However, exercise should pay attention to "moderation". If you are too tired, it will lead to decreased resistance and make you more likely to get sick.

2. Keep warm and increase or decrease clothes in time.

Generally, it is the high incidence of colds when the seasons alternate, mainly because of the large temperature difference between day and night at these times. If you don't pay attention to keep warm, you are easily infected by the virus. Therefore, we should pay attention to seasonal changes and temperature changes, and increase or decrease clothes in time.

3. Keep the air circulating to avoid cross infection.

Always open the window for ventilation to keep the air circulating. If your family has a cold, you should be as close to your children as possible to avoid cross-infection of the virus.

What about viral fever and cough? Don't eat if you have a fever or cough.

1, orange

Many parents think that oranges have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, so they choose to let babies with colds and coughs eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and resolves phlegm instead.

2. Cold food

Cold drinks or frozen drinks should not be eaten when coughing. At this time, if the diet is too cold, it will easily lead to lung qi occlusion, and the symptoms will be aggravated for a long time.

3. Fat and sweet food

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. When a child coughs, the gastrointestinal function is weak, and fried food will increase the burden on the stomach, help damp heat, breed sputum, and make cough difficult to heal.

4. Shrimp and crab

Many children with fever and cough get worse after eating fishy food, which is related to fishy smell stimulating respiratory tract and protein allergy to fish and shrimp food. Children who are allergic to some fish and eggs should pay more attention, among which silver carp and hairtail have the greatest influence.

5. Sweet and sour food

Sour food often accumulates phlegm, which makes it difficult to cough up phlegm, thus aggravating the condition and making it difficult to recover from cough. Apples, bananas, oranges, grapes and so on. It is not suitable for consumption when cough is severe. Eating sweets will also help heat, making inflammation difficult to cure.

6, supplements

Many parents give some supplements to children with weak constitution, but children should stop taking supplements when their cough is not cured, so as not to be difficult to cure.