What should you do if your little child has a cold or fever? If your first reaction is also to quickly find a doctor to inject a special fever medicine, beware of the loss may be the child’s future resistance! Chinese medicine doctor Sheng-Pu Lee reminded that the treatment of children’s colds, children’s fever, do not want it to be immediately effective, too strong drugs, are easy to make children’s immunity and resistance insufficient, repeatedly repeated colds.
Nine-year-old Xiaoming is said to be his parents’ most relieved baby, as long as the class at the same school has a cold or fever, Xiaoming is definitely the next person to be infected with the disease, not to mention that as soon as the weather changes, he has to keep his mask on and wash his hands all day long to prevent it.
This kind of repeatedly easy to catch a small cold is becoming more and more common recently, usually, after a cold should be treated to restore a healthy body, but the fact is the opposite, many children tend to be more and more unhealthy after each treatment, 10 days and a half months to catch a cold again. Where does the main problem come from? Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee believes that the problem is the wrong mentality of parents who are eager to cure. He said that many parents are reluctant to see their children’s colds, fevers, once children have symptoms, and hope that the doctor use the stronger medicine, the more effective the better, they wish symptoms immediately disappeared, a strong demand for doctors to give heavy-handed, in turn, to pull up the seedlings to help children not easy to generate their own immunity.
Whether it is the anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics used in Western medicine or the gypsum and Huanglian used in Chinese medicine to reduce fever, these drugs are cool in nature in Chinese medicine and destroy the enzymes in the stomach and intestines while killing viruses, resulting in a decrease in the amount of heat produced in the body, insufficient body qi, and a decrease in immunity and resistance.
In fact, children’s colds and fevers are a process of adapting to each other with viruses, temperature differences and the environment, and there is not much to do in terms of treatment. As long as you help your child to have enough nutrition and increase the Qi in the body, through the process of recovering from one cold after another, children can naturally develop resistance and stop catching colds so easily.
On the contrary, if parents rush to give anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs when they see children with fever and throat inflammation, although the fever can go down immediately after the child sweats, the body will be weakened and continue this treatment mode for a long time, in turn, the natural resistance will be lost, becoming often in the flu, often in the fever, and even become allergic or asthma, and must rely on steroids.
In treating children who are susceptible to colds and allergies, Chinese medicine does not focus on getting better immediately, but on increasing the child’s own resistance, after all, the child’s body is not a battlefield. It is not necessary to fight with bacteria and viruses, but to disrupt the body’s original Qi, which is not worth the loss. The people who have resistance have a wide sky, no resistance is difficult to walk, cultivate a good foundation, the child will have the capital to deal with more dangerous diseases in the future.
If a child’s face is pale and the skin becomes dry and lusterless after taking medicine, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee pointed out that the medicine is definitely harmful to the body, although the immediate symptoms of the cold are cured, but the source of heat production in the stomach and intestines will be reduced, immunity, resistance becomes worse, it is better to use Chinese medicine that can strengthen the liver and Yang and stomach and intestines to slowly recuperate, from the root, is the solution.
Originally from: Health.chinatimes.com
Health Chinatimes/ Reporter Rou-Rou Huang reports 2011.04.15
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