Colds, runny nose, cough, acute respiratory infections and even ARVI can be caught at any time. But wherever you are, treatment should be started immediately. And advice from Wday.ru will help with this.
Morning
If you meet the morning with redness in your throat and a stuffy nose, be sure to gargle to remove plaque.
Half an hour before meals, take a solution of propolis tincture and water (1 tablespoon of infusion for 5 tablespoons of water).
Flush your nose with saline.
For breakfast, have lemon tea and a tablespoon of rosehip syrup.
From drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs will come to the rescue. Put drops into your nose before leaving the house.
Food for colds
Carrot. And also spinach, bell peppers and persimmons to replenish carotene.
Meat. Pork or beef liver, Camembert cheese, fish oil will replenish the body with Omega-3 acids and vitamin A.
Black currant. And also kiwi, orange, sauerkraut, rose hips will make up for the loss of vitamin C.
Oysters. Or wheat germ and veal liver will help restore zinc.
If the malaise began right during the working day, do not wait for the evening, start to be treated immediately.
First aid will be provided by ascorbic acid. But do not use pills, but a powder that quickly penetrates the bloodstream and is not harmful if taken on an empty stomach. During treatment, you will need 1 g of ascorbic acid: pour it into a teaspoon, eat it and wash it down with tea, maybe with lemon.
If gargling at work is not possible, an inhalation spray, for example, based on iodine with menthol, will come in handy.
Evening
In the evening, you can not restrain yourself and drive out the cold by any available methods.
Remember powder aspirin.
Offer yourself a rich selection of healing drinks based on rose hips, black currants, sea buckthorn, honey and lemon.
Important: no hot baths, for colds, only dry heat is shown. Moisture contributes to the multiplication of bacteria, and our task is to reduce their number as much as possible. But, you can make a mustard foot bath. Dissolve 2 tbsp in hot water. l. dry mustard, lower your feet and hold for 15-20 minutes, from time to time gently adding hot water. After the procedure, rub your feet vigorously with a towel and put on dry woolen socks.
Before bedtime Chop a few cloves of garlic, a head of onion in a bowl and place next to the bed.
Cold medicines
Ascorbic acid. The use of ascorbic acid 2-4 g per day (1-2 g in the morning and at lunchtime) for 5 days promotes recovery.
Spray and drops for the common cold. Use preparations based on sea water or oils. Rinsing the nose will reduce inflammation, runny nose, and improve nasal breathing. Drops on herbal preparations will help with acute rhinitis. It can be applied from a week to a month.
Expert Tips
– Today there is not a single antiviral “cold medicine” with proven effectiveness. The production of antibodies and the elimination of the virus from the body takes a certain time, the duration of which also does not depend on the amount of pepper, garlic, lemon and other “miracle foods” eaten. Therefore, the well-known aphorism that “a cold is treated with drugs for 7 days, and without drugs for a week” remains true today!
For effective treatment of acute respiratory infections, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for the body for a speedy recovery, the so-called therapeutic and protective regime. It consists in following simple rules:
adequate sleep;
balanced diet;
adequate drinking regime;
frequent ventilation of the room;
the use of symptomatic drugs if necessary.
Yana Tank, Daria Vertinskaya