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Colds are very common in life, many people usually rely on their own immunity to get through after a cold, or drink some banlan root, cold spirit and other medicines to be done, but some colds are not treated symptomatically, the pathogen will multiply in the body in large numbers, the light will be a serious fever, the worst may be a serious lung infection and pneumonia, white lung and other symptoms! Ms. Hu, who is located in Henan, because of her own negligence, finally led to lobar pneumonia in her lungs and obvious white lung manifestations.
In May 2018, Ms. Hu was walking on the way from work, when it suddenly rained heavily, and Ms. Hu was drenched all over the body, although she hurriedly ran home, but when she went home, she was already shivering from the cold.
Ms. Hu first took off her wet clothes, and turned on the hot air conditioner to gradually return her body temperature to normal, and then took a hot bath, in fact, Ms. Hu's treatment method is very correct, after the rain, she did not immediately go to take a hot bath, to prevent the skin temperature difference is too large and have adverse reactions, but she also paid attention to make her body temperature back to normal, remove the cold, and keep the body dry, but unfortunately Ms. Hu's usual habits led to too low immunity, although she handled it correctly, but still caught a cold.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Ms. Hu felt that her body was cold, she wrapped herself in the quilt, but she still felt a cold back, and began to sneeze from time to time, and with one sneeze, a lot of yellow thick nasal discharge flowed out of her nose, and the amount was not very large, but she had to blow her nose once in a while, and Ms. Hu also understood that she had a cold, so she bought antiviral oral liquid online.
After taking the drug, Ms. Hu went to sleep, and the next day, Ms. Hu felt that the symptoms were aggravated, first of all, her throat was dry and painful, as if she had swallowed a blade in her throat, and she struggled to get up and wanted to drink a glass of water, but found that her muscles all over her body had a deep sense of weakness, and she felt that her body was abnormally weak and afraid of cold as soon as she left the quilt.
However, in her subconscious, there is no need to go to the hospital for a minor illness like a cold, so she plans to take a good rest by herself to see if she can relieve the discomfort through rest, but Ms. Hu is still very smart, she drinks a lot of hot water, which helps to replenish the snot, phlegm, The loss of water such as sweating can also urinate more often, promote metabolism, and help the discharge of bacteria and toxins, which is indeed very beneficial to colds, but unfortunately, Ms. Hu ignores the importance of taking medicine, and the low autoimmune function also leads to the danger that appears later.
On May 23, 2018, the symptoms were further aggravated, at this time Ms. Hu had begun to have obvious fever symptoms, the body temperature has reached 38.4 degrees Celsius, the increase in body temperature is the abnormal high temperature environment created by the body in order to eliminate the pathogen, the purpose is to die because the pathogen can not stand the high temperature environment, is a way of self-protection of the body, but when the person continues to be in a state of fever, the person's own organs will also suffer greatly.
First of all, many enzymes in the human body will be active at about 37 degrees Celsius, when the body temperature continues to reach 38 degrees Celsius and above, it will lead to the inactivation of these enzymes, enzymes are an important catalyst, when the activity disappears, many biochemical reactions in the body will slow down or stop, then the whole human internal environment will suffer serious damage, on the other hand, long-term fever will affect various tissues and organs, the most serious is that the brain will produce edema, resulting in sequelae or death, we often hear that the burn is confused, it is because of the fever that causes cerebral edema and finally affects intelligence。
At this time, fever reduction is the most important thing for Ms. Hu, so she bought ibuprofen, and he also bought mabaloxavir, which is specifically used to treat viral colds. First of all, although ibuprofen has no direct antiviral effect, it can alleviate inflammation and reduce pain, on the one hand, because the reduction of inflammation will reduce body temperature to achieve a cooling effect, and it can effectively remove the symptoms of muscle weakness and soreness.
Mabaloxavir is a drug that has a strong resistance to both influenza A and influenza B, and if taken within 48 hours after the onset of symptoms, the symptoms will generally subside significantly within one to two days, and Ms. Hu has not been cold for more than two days, and the conditions for taking the medicine are met.
However, after a day of medication, Ms. Hu's symptoms did not weaken, and even her body temperature rose to 39.3 degrees Celsius, at this time, Ms. Hu was already coughing and coughing up phlegm, and the sputum had appeared dark red like rust, and the chest also began to produce obvious pain, as the breathing progressed, the pain even radiated to the shoulders and back. At this time, Ms. Hu felt that something was wrong and immediately went to the hospital.
The doctor arranged corresponding examinations according to Ms. Hu's clinical manifestations, and found that Ms. Hu's bilateral lung lobes were obviously enlarged, and the imaging showed a large number of white shaded areas, and the doctor colloquially told Ms. Hu that she had symptoms of white lung, which indicated that more than 80% of Ms. Hu's lungs had serious infections.
After the corresponding treatment, Ms. Hu's body temperature finally returned to normal, and the pain in her chest slowly disappeared.
Ms. Hu was puzzled, she obviously had to take medicine well, but she didn't know how the symptoms were getting more and more serious, and the doctor smiled after learning more about it: You obviously have a cold caused by bacteria, can you cure it if you have been taking antiviral medicine? After a cold, you still have to identify whether it is caused by bacteria or viruses, and treat it according to the cause to avoid danger.
The first is the cause of the cold, if there are people around the cold, and then they are also infected, it can be basically determined that it is a viral cold, because the virus will be transmitted through the air through the respiratory tract, and the bacterial cold infectious ability is very weak, then when you feel the cold caused by the wind or rain, most of them are bacterial, at this time the body's immunity suddenly declines, causing germs to easily take advantage of the weakness, causing respiratory tract infection, and the rain will also contain a lot of germs, so the rain will create conditions for germs to invade the human body。
The second is from the symptoms of colds, most bacterial colds will show obvious symptoms of chills and fever, and the pain in the throat will be particularly obvious, there will be symptoms of purulent discharge in the early stage, and it will also be accompanied by nasal congestion. In the early stage of viral flu, the nose tends to be runny and the fever is obvious, which may lead to dull taste and hoarseness, and after a few days, the nasal discharge will become thick and viscous, and thick nasal discharge can be observed at this time, and sometimes the Eustachian tube is infected leading to hearing loss, and the headache is often more obvious.
At the same time, for colds, laboratory tests are the most effective means, using respiratory specimens for viral nucleic acid testing, serological tests, and blood routine tests, which can basically detect most types of viral and bacterial colds.
The most important thing is that if the symptoms of a cold are severe, you must go to the hospital immediately to seek medical attention, on the one hand, to find out what kind of pathogen caused the cold, and on the other hand, to prevent the cold from being combined with other diseases to cause serious infections, and do not take it lightly and cause unnecessary danger.