Can cold medicine prevent colds?

Many people ask Dr. Clove, can taking cold medicine or antibiotics prevent colds? This article will give you a detailed description. Can cold medicine and antibiotics prevent colds? The answer is no. The common cold is one of the most common types of upper respiratory tract infection, mostly caused by viruses, with rhinovirus and coronavirus being the most common. Antibiotics are not effective for viral treatment, so antibiotics are not used for prevention or treatment. At present, there is no specific antiviral drug specifically for the common cold. Most of the common commercial cold drugs are mainly aimed at relieving symptoms, but cannot kill the common cold virus or prevent the common cold. The ingredients of cold medicine are all Read More …

Don’t hold on to colds during pregnancy and lactation. There are ways not to feel uncomfortable.

Pregnant expectant mothers or nursing new mothers are always careful and cautious, and sometimes they are at a loss even if they encounter the most common cold. Some people choked back, no matter how serious the symptoms were, they did not dare to take medicine and did not take good measures to deal with them. In fact, it is really unnecessary to bear so much discomfort. Next, let’s take a look at how to deal with colds during pregnancy and lactation scientifically. Do you want to see a doctor? If it is determined to be the common cold, the symptoms are not serious and there is no high fever (the body temperature is greater than 39 ℃), which will generally Read More …

Are you ready to drive home during the vacation?

With the approach of the holiday, have many friends already started to count down the holiday with their fingers? I believe many friends will drive home by themselves if their home is not too far away from the city where they work. In order to ensure the safety of the road and make everyone happy for the holidays, Dr. Clove came to tell you about the number of people who drive long-distance buses. Have a drink [a little wine], don’t Even a small amount of alcohol can reduce coordination and reaction ability, affect eyesight and judgment of speed and distance, and even make people sleepy. There is no safe way to calculate how much alcohol you drink to keep the Read More …

If you have high blood pressure, you should be careful when choosing cold medicine.

The fluctuation of blood pressure is affected by many factors, For example, mood, exercise and diet can affect blood pressure. In addition, some drugs can also raise blood pressure, such as commonly used antipyretics and cold medicines, and some may even raise blood pressure to a more dangerous level. What may not affect other people, but when hypertension patients take drugs, they should pay attention. We will mainly talk about the drugs commonly used in our life, which will affect blood pressure, and the matters needing attention when choosing. Antipyretic analgesic Some ingredients in commonly used painkillers, such as ibuprofen and naproxen, will affect blood pressure. Alternatively: acetaminophen If there is hypertension, when choosing analgesic or antipyretic drugs, pay attention Read More …

Abuse of this drug is so harmful that most people use it wrong.

The medicine Dr. Clove is going to say today is ribavirin. Ribavirin is commonly known as ribavirin, because it bears the word “virus” and misleads most people, who think it is a drug to deal with the virus. In fact, such medication is a big mistake! Today, Dr. Clove joined everyone to listen to Mr. Ji Lianmei’s explanation. The beginning of the story After seeing a patient in the morning, I was not very happy all day, not because I was angry with the patient, but because I felt sorry for what happened to the patient. The 33-year-old female patient was diagnosed pregnant 11 days ago (February 21). This is a happy thing, but worries follow, because the patient took Read More …

Truth, will the stomach grow bigger and smaller?

Many friends, because of physical discomfort, poor mood or other reasons, will continue to lose their appetite, have no appetite for what for several days in a row, and then naturally feel that their stomachs have shrunk. If you eat more, your stomach will slowly become bigger, and if you eat less, your stomach will slowly become smaller? The bigger the stomach, the bigger the appetite. On the contrary, the smaller the stomach, the less the appetite? Presumably, many friends who lose weight feel that they eat too much and eat too much, right? So the first step to lose weight is often… hungry. Then the second step is… continue to be hungry until your stomach is small. Doctor clove Read More …

Pregnant take the wrong medicine, the child [flow] or [stay]?

One kind of consultation that outpatient clinics often encounter is that after taking emergency contraceptives, they are pregnant again, or after taking cold medicine or even antibiotics, can the child still have it? This is actually a problem of medication during pregnancy. On the issue of medication during pregnancy, two points should be made clear first, one is the classification of drugs and the other is the time of medication. Classification of drugs during pregnancy The vast majority of commonly used drugs can be classified into A, B, C, D and X. Although pregnant, it is not that what drugs cannot be used. If it is Class A or Class B drugs, it is still OK to use them. Even Read More …