Flu and Common Cold ⁽⁴⁾

Recently influenza A has been prevalent, especially in schools and kindergartens; my son also caught it. Because for the previous three years everyone strictly followed epidemic prevention, influenza had not spread so widely in our country for a long time, leading to reduced population immunity…

Fever clinics in Beijing, Wuhan, Hebei, and elsewhere have already seen medical crunches, with people queuing for hours to see a doctor. Hospitals and clinics everywhere are packed with people getting IV drips to break fever, so that fever-reducing drugs there are nearly exhausted, and…

Recently, possibly because of the weather, or possibly because I was struck by an influenza virus, my tonsils became red and swollen again and my nose was blocked. Swallowing brought a stabbing pain in both my throat and my ears, together with tinnitus, a ringing…

Winter colds are mostly of wind-cold nature. But if a cold drags on, or if the patient is affected by other diseases, the cold may give rise to a respiratory tract infection. At this point it can no longer be treated as wind-cold; it should…