Is heatstroke a type of wind-heat感冒 (common cold)?
Disease description:
My father not only has a low fever after heatstroke, but also now has a mild cold. I would like to ask if heatstroke is considered a wind-heat type of common cold?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Heatstroke is not the same as a wind-heat cold. There are significant differences between the two in terms of causes, symptoms, and treatment.
1. **Causes**: Heatstroke is caused by dysfunction of the body's temperature regulation center, failure of sweat gland function, and excessive loss of water and electrolytes in high temperature and humidity environments. Wind-heat cold, on the other hand, is caused by external invasion of wind-heat pathogenic factors into the body.
2. **Symptoms**: The typical symptoms of heatstroke include high fever, heavy sweating, muscle cramps, fatigue, and fainting. In contrast, wind-heat cold mainly presents with fever, headache, cough, sticky yellow phlegm, and a sore throat.
3. **Treatment**: The treatment for heatstroke focuses on rapid cooling, and replenishing fluids and electrolytes, while wind-heat cold requires treatment methods such as clearing heat, relieving exterior symptoms, detoxification, and soothing the throat.
Although the two conditions share some similar symptoms, heatstroke and wind-heat cold are two distinct diseases.
