During summer, babies are prone to getting wind heat colds, which are usually caused by blowing electric fans and air conditioning. The symptoms of wind heat colds are usually fever, mainly low-grade fever. Do not take medicine, use some physical methods to cool down, drink more water and fruits, etc. Below, we will introduce methods for reducing fever in wind heat colds.
1、 How to reduce fever in wind heat cold
1. Sweating and antipyretic method
A. This is the most common method of reducing fever, suitable for patients with colds and fever. Common symptoms include fever, chills, and fear of the cold, as well as lack of or difficulty sweating. Wind heat cold is characterized by obvious fever, high body temperature, usually sweating, and symptoms such as headache, thirst, sore throat, etc. It can be dispelled by sweating to spread pathogenic heat, reduce fever, and achieve the effect of reducing fever.
B. At the same time, we can also reduce fever by drinking more hot water, covering ourselves with blankets to cover our sweat, taking a sauna, and soaking our feet in hot water to induce sweating. However, when taking a sauna, we should pay attention to keeping warm and avoid exposure to wind; When you have a fever, the pores of your skin are blocked. Scraping can make the pores open and the evil energy inside can be eliminated, and it also has the effect of reducing fever.
2. The method of heating up and cooling down
In traditional Chinese medicine, we can use drugs with cooling properties to treat fever, which is mainly suitable for patients with fever but not chills. The main symptoms of fever we see are four major symptoms, such as persistent high fever, liking to drink cold drinks when thirsty, and obvious sweating. These are symptoms of high fever. At this time, sweating and fever reduction methods cannot be used. We can use traditional Chinese medicine or sweet cold and fever reduction methods to treat it.
3. Tongfu Jieheat Method
Also known as the 'bottom of the pot method', which uses bitter cold and laxative drugs to achieve the goal of reducing fever. This method is mainly suitable for patients with high fever and constipation. Even patients may exhibit symptoms such as gibberish, yellow and rough tongue coating, and prickly tongue. At this time, it is necessary to use antipyretic drugs combined with laxative drugs. After the stool is discharged, the heat will also decrease. This is the process of promoting bowel movements, eliminating hot lumps, and allowing pathogenic heat to dissipate from the bottom, which can achieve the goal of reducing internal heat.
4. Nourishing Yin and Clearing Heat Method
We can use yin nourishing drugs to treat patients with symptoms of yin deficiency and fever. This symptom is mainly suitable for patients with chest fever, hand and foot fever, restlessness during fever, frequent sweating at night, and thin body shape. It is also often used to treat symptoms such as chronic diseases and tumors. The fever symptoms cannot be treated with the methods we mentioned earlier. Instead, nourishing yin and clearing heat should be used. You can massage acupoints such as San Yin Cross, Tai Xi, and Yong Quan, and eat more lotus root slices, fruits, and other foods.
The above is about the basic methods of extra heat. In fact, the massage method that is more practical is only an auxiliary method. For medication, physical methods are generally not used, but it still needs to be prescribed by a doctor. If the fever exceeds 38.5 degrees, you need to go to the hospital, and some may need to be soaked in water, usually because there are more bacterial infections.
