Cool down watch out for winter flu

2018-11-07 China journal of traditional Chinese medicine 7 edition author: sun qian

In a flash, the start of winter comes, and the flu season comes again. How to survive the flu season, listen to sun zikai, director of the respiratory department of jiangsu provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine.

Why is flu so scary

Sun zikai introduced that influenza is the acute respiratory tract infection caused by influenza virus. From November to April each year, the high incidence season, the elderly, children, pregnant women and people with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, low resistance to infection.

"Is different from the common cold, flu, a come up with a fever cold evil is given priority to, generally have a fever to 39 ~ 40 ℃, at the same time accompanied by symptoms such as cough, joint pain, sore throat." Mr. Sun said flu is scary because it causes severe complications such as pneumonia, viral myocarditis and nervous system infections in a short time as the disease progresses, and the virus is so contagious that it mutates almost every year and cannot be "turned away" by vaccination.

What about the flu

According to sun zikai, those infected with influenza can be isolated at home by themselves and keep the room ventilated. They should have adequate rest at home and drink plenty of water. Meanwhile, they should closely observe the changes of the condition.

Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, flu is by the evil poison takes human body to resist evil ability inadequacy when, invade lung to defend furs to be caused by, belong to "time line cold" category. Sun zikai said that in addition to using anti-viral western medicine for the treatment of influenza, traditional Chinese medicine has its unique advantages, which can not only reduce fever, ease body soreness, but also reduce complications such as pneumonia. In addition, as a result of pathogenic heat injury to the lung, consumption of lung Yin, many patients in the fever, cough more than not, using antibiotics often not good results, at this time to take qingrunyangyin traditional Chinese medicine decoction, can have an unexpected effect.

Every flu season, families fight off the flu with a few germicidal "baby steps," like smoking houses with vinegar. Sun zikai points out, actually, acetic acid only has disinfection, bactericidal effect when attaining certain concentration only, prevent flu with vinegar fumigation house not only the result that cannot reach disinfect disinfect, still can produce stimulation to the person's respiratory tract mucous membrane, cause guttural discomfort.

Some families are always prepared with banlangen infusion. Once they hear that the flu is coming, the whole family will take two packs. Radix isatidis is not a "panacea", actually it is just a lot of treatment of influenza a member of the formulas is mainly used in the treatment of influenza in belonging to wind heat type of disease, especially suitable for fever, sore throat, red tongue of excessive heat, thirst, belongs to cold kind of influenza (a bad cold, headache, body pain, stuffy nose, stream qing stuff, etc.) doesn't have much effect.

In traditional Chinese medicine, there is a saying that "zhengqi is stored in the body, and evil can't be dried". Zhengqi is actually the immune system that we often speak of now. When immunity is improved, disease and evil can't attack human body naturally. Therefore, the fundamental prevention of influenza is to maintain positive and ward off evil spirits. Therefore, sun pointed out that during the flu season, residents should do the following:

Reasonable diet

Eat a balanced diet with plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits and drink plenty of water, which helps to strengthen the body and improve immunity. Diet should be light, not spicy hot food, if there is a slight cough, you can eat some moist and clear lung food, such as white fungus, snow pear, lily, etc.

Avoid overwork

Excessive fatigue, lack of sleep, beyond the body's normal load, will also consume Yang qi, reduce human immunity. Therefore, it is recommended to go to bed early and get up late in winter, so as to get enough sleep and reduce the number of late nights.

Strengthen physical exercise

Do outdoor activity more, can enhance airframe resistance. You can do some suitable exercises every day, such as walking, cycling, jogging, tai chi, etc.

Appropriate supplements

The person of common constitution weak, often ill, must beat good ground son in winter, can undertake when necessary fix this recuperation, if be under the doctor's guidance, take fill lung to fill kidney (yu pingfeng SAN, shen su drink, shen mai du qi bolus), tonic qi blood (eight zhen tang) Chinese traditional medicine decoction or cream prescription.

Keep warm in the cold

Bear a few cold appropriately in winter, can promote blood circulation, strengthen oneself resistance and prevent cold strength, but avoid by all means blindly pursue frozen feeling, had better according to body feeling seasonable increase and decrease clothes, especially head, foot, abdomen and neck must not catch cold.

Pay attention to personal hygiene

Wash your hands and change clothes frequently. Cover your mouth with tissue when sneezing. Wear a mask for prevention during the flu season.

Strengthen indoor ventilation

Office, school and other densely populated areas should be ventilated regularly, at least twice a day, do not close doors and Windows because of cold weather, avoid indoor air pollution and germs breeding. Avoid going to places where people congregate and have poor ventilation to reduce the risk of infection.

In addition, the prevention of influenza, again in normal times. Can use astragalus 10~12 grams, ginseng 3 grams, prevent wind 5 grams, wheat winter 10 grams bubble water to drink, benefit qi raises Yin to run lung while, strengthen airframe resistance, once suffer from flu, appear bad cold, calorific, have a headache, cough, nasal obstruction, runny, pharynx painful wait for a symptom, should treat in time, prevent delay illness.