Patient's question:
5 months old, 4.5 years old, low-grade fever for 5 days. It's usually high fever during the day, and it starts to be low-grade fever at dusk, ranging from 38.7 to 39 degrees. It's accompanied by cough with phlegm, nasal congestion, and runny nose. What kind of help do you need: Hello, is it the flu? If it's just a common fever, what type of fever is this (is it wind-heat or wind-cold)?Doctor's answer:
The baby shows symptoms of respiratory infection such as fever, cough, and nasal congestion, which suggests a fever. There is a need to be cautious about it potentially developing into bronchitis or pneumonia.Medical Advice: Wind-cold fever is caused by the external invasion of wind-cold pathogens and the failure of lung Qi to ventilate. The symptoms include: severe chills, mild fever, no sweating, headache, body aches, nasal congestion with clear mucus, coughing up thin white phlegm, no thirst or thirst for warm drinks, and thin white coating on the tongue.
Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat pathogens invading the surface and the obstruction of lung Qi. The symptoms include: high fever, slight aversion to wind, stuffy head, sweating, red and swollen sore throat, coughing with sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion with yellow mucus, thirst with a preference for drinking, red tip and sides of the tongue, and thin white coating with slight yellowish tinge.