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A cold without a temperature is absolutely normal.
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Despite the fact that the art of healing has long become a medicine, that is, a system of scientific knowledge and practical ways of identifying and treating human diseases, we still call the viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract the everyday word “cold”. And cold without fever also applies to viral diseases. At the same time, from all organs of the upper respiratory tract, the nose and throat are primarily affected.
Causes of a cold without a temperature: the virus is to blame
Without going deep into the medical wilds, it can be said that among the two hundred strains of viruses involved in the occurrence of a cold, the most active are rhinoviruses from the picornavirus family. Once in the human body, rhinoviruses multiply in the cells of the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx, which leads to inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract - nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, acute rhinitis, or, as we say, a cold. Why does this happen most often during the cold season? Because some of the viruses that cause the common cold are seasonal. But the reason for their seasonality has not yet been clarified...
In addition, experts have in this regard two more versions. Some believe that the causes of colds, including the causes of a cold without a fever, are purely physiological. Under the influence of cold air, the blood supply to the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract changes, this leads to a reduction in mucus production, and at this moment the viruses that have entered the respiratory tract begin to multiply rapidly.
According to the second point of view, in the cold, the human body experiences stress, to which the immune system responds by reducing its protective functions. And a cold without a temperature (if you stick to this version) is an indicator of strong immunity, which becomes infected with the infection without the participation of the hypothalamus, which is responsible for the thermoregulation of our body and “giving the command” to start the production of protective antibodies.
However, many studies have been carried out, which give grounds to assert that the increased susceptibility of the organism to infection during hypothermia is nothing more than a myth...
Since the common cold is caused by a virus, it can become infected. The most common mode of transmission is airborne as well as direct contact when a person touches the source of the infection.
Cold symptoms without fever
On average, the incubation period of a cold without a temperature does not exceed two to three days. From the unpleasant sensations in the nose and throat it comes to sneezing and runny nose. According to medics, about 60% of people feel sore throat with a cold, about 60% of people complain of cough, the presence of rhinitis reaches almost 100%, but the temperature in adult patients usually remains within the normal range.
At first, the main symptom of a cold without a fever is copious watery discharge from the nose. After a day or two, they become thicker and acquire a mucopurulent character. A cough joins the cold - first dry, and then with a small amount of sputum.
In the absence of bacterial complications (in the form of sinusitis or otitis), in 5-7 days cold symptoms without fever disappear. However, the cough can last much longer (up to two weeks) and often leads to bronchitis, laryngitis or tracheitis.
A cold during pregnancy without fever (when the rhinovirus is the cause) has similar symptoms. The same symptoms are accompanied by a cold in a child without a temperature, but most often the body temperature in children still increases, especially in very young ones. Their body is still developing, so the reaction of the immune system is heightened. For this reason, any cough, as the physiological function of cleaning the respiratory tract, requires finding out the reason - so as not to miss the same pharyngitis, laryngitis or bronchitis.
In most cases, the diagnosis of a cold without a temperature is carried out on the basis of the clinical manifestations of the disease and is not difficult.
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Cold treatment without fever
Symptoms and treatment of colds were described as early as the 16th century BC - in the Ebers papyrus “The Book of Preparing Medicines for All Parts of the Body”. But there is still no cold medicine, and we treat - or rather, relieve - only her symptoms.
At the same time, we must not forget that antibiotics for colds cannot be taken, since they do not act on the viruses that cause this disease.
It is recommended to treat cold without fever using alternative means tested by many generations, which are now called alternative methods. So, when the first cold symptoms appear, you need to make a hot foot bath (with the addition of dry mustard) or rub your feet with vodka or turpentine ointment and put on warm socks. In the treatment of colds during pregnancy without a temperature, the use of thermal procedures is strictly prohibited: only a warm scarf on the neck and woolen socks on the feet can be used.
But tea with lemon and honey, as well as ginger is useful to absolutely everyone. When the throat is reddened and coughing, inhalations with infusions of pine buds, sage, eucalyptus leaves, a solution of baking soda, and alkaline mineral water such as Borjomi help. It is better to do them twice a day - in the morning (one hour before leaving the house) and in the evening - one and half hours before bedtime.
To get rid of cough, the positive effect is given by a warm drink - broth of rosehip, infusions of thyme, lemon balm, leaves of mother and stepmother, roots of elecampane, and warm milk in half with alkaline mineral water, and at night - warm milk with honey and butter. Note that hot milk will slow down the sputum. It is necessary to drink slowly, in small sips.
With a sore throat in the treatment of a cold without a temperature can not do without rinsing. Their recipes are vast, but the most effective are: salt + soda + iodine solution, chamomile or sage tincture, as well as solutions of natural apple cider vinegar (a tablespoon per 150 ml of water), furatsilina and hydrogen peroxide (1-2 teaspoons per glass of water ). Throat should be rinsed as often as possible - at least 5-6 times a day.
Irritation and sore throat are often the result of severe coughing, and as a result coughing attacks occur more often. To get rid of this problem, regular gargling with a warm solution of sodium chloride helps well: 0.5 tsp. Per 200 ml of water.
It relieves pain in the throat by ingestion of a mixture prepared from 100 g of natural honey and juice of one lemon. This natural medicine should be taken two teaspoons several times a day. And homemade drops can help cure a cold - fresh carrot juice with honey, raw beet juice: 5-6 drops in each nostril 4 times a day. It is possible several times a day to apply a little balsam “Asterisk” on the nose and do acupressure in the area of the wings of the nose and in the highest point of the nose - between the eyebrows.
Since the treatment of colds during pregnancy without fever excludes the use of pharmaceuticals as much as possible and involves symptomatic therapy with alternative means, all the above methods are perfectly safe for expectant mothers.
Cold treatments without fever
In the medical treatment of colds without fever used drugs for cough, rhinitis, and sore throat. Classical mixtures such as Althea syrup and Pertussin are considered to be a good expectorant. Pertussin belongs to the combination drugs of plant origin (in its basis - extract of thyme or thyme), it has an expectorant effect, helps to dilute sputum and accelerates its excretion. Adults need to take the medicine one tablespoon three times a day, children take tea or a dessert.
Tablets tusupreks and mukaltin are also considered classics in the treatment of cold cough. Tusuprex has an antitussive and weak expectorant effect. The daily dose for adults - a pill (0.02 g) 3-4 times a day, for children up to a year - a quarter tablet, and older than a year - half a tablet 3-4 times a day. A possible side effect is digestive disorders. This medicine is contraindicated in bronchospastic conditions (narrowing of the lumen of the bronchi) and in case of bronchitis with difficult expectoration of sputum.
Mukaltin acts as a thinning sputum and expectorant due to the content of Althea drug extract. Adults need to take 1 tablet 4 times a day, children from a year to three years - 0.5 tablets 3-4 times a day (you can dissolve the tablet in 70-80 ml of warm water). Among the contraindications mukaltina - hypersensitivity to the drug, as well as peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
With a strong dry cough during a cold without a temperature, the doctor may prescribe drugs that block the cough reflex, glaucine and okseladin. Glaucine is available in the form of dragees, syrup (including syrup for children) and tablets, and is prescribed for adults - 40 mg 2-3 times a day, children under 4 years old - 10 mg 2-3 times a day (after food). The drug is contraindicated in severe hypotension and myocardial infarction. Possible side effects are expressed as dizziness, weakness and nausea.
Bromhexine, lasolvan, ambroxol, acetylcysteine (ACC) are used to liquefy and contribute to the expectoration of sputum. For example, the drug Bromhexin (tablets, dragees, drops, syrup) is taken by adults and children over 14 years of age on 8-16 mg 3-4 times a day. The dosage for children under the age of 2 years is 2 mg 3 times a day, from 2 to 6 years old 4 mg, and 6-10 mg 6-8 mg a day during the day. Reception duration - no more than 4-5 days. Among the contraindications of this drug are hypersensitivity, peptic ulcer in the acute stage, pregnancy (especially the first trimester) and breastfeeding.
Among the drugs for cough, which are most often prescribed by doctors for the treatment of colds without a fever in children, are sydeses Gedelix, Prospan, Tussamag, Travisil and Eukabal.
Treatment of cold without fever means getting rid of a cold. Attorneys drops from rhinitis - naftizin, sanorin, galazolin. And in the treatment of rhinitis in children, nazivin drops are used (for babies from birth to one year), Nazol Bebi (for children over 1 year old), xymelin (0.05% for children 2-12 years old and 0.1% for children with 12 years). For pain in the throat, drugs with local anesthetic action in the form of aerosols are used - ingalipt, cameton, and camphogen. Also, pharmacies have many different dragees, lozenges, candies and lozenges that help relieve sore throat.
But paracetamol for colds without fever is obviously not worth taking. Since the pharmacological effect of this drug is analgesic and antipyretic, and it is used for: pain of weak and moderate intensity (headache, toothache, migraine, back pain, arthralgia, myalgia, neuralgia), feverish syndrome (that is, fever) for colds.
Among the contraindications to the use of paracetamol are hypersensitivity, impaired renal function and liver, alcoholism, children under 6 years of age. And in the list of side effects such blood diseases as agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia and anemia; renal colic, aseptic pyuria (pus in the urine when it is sterile), glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the kidneys with circulatory disorders in them), and allergic rashes on the skin.
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