As soon as it got cold outside, everyone around them armed themselves with handkerchiefs and cough medicine. Cold reigns supreme. But you can stop it quickly. The main thing is to take action on time.
October 6 2015
When you feel that the disease is coming, take a break. Take time off from work. After sitting in the apartment for one day, you will quickly go on the mend. An important point: it is absolutely impossible to spend the cherished day on household chores – ironing and washing clothes, washing windows and cooking borscht. Go to bed with a thermos of hot lemon tea next to it. Drinking plenty of fluids will help fight off colds. Vitamin C, which is abundant in lemon, will serve as a refueling of the shattered immunity. Tea can be replaced with mineral water without gas, lingonberry, black currant or cranberry juice (these berries also contain a lot of vitamin C). Herbal tea is good for colds.
From cough a healing drink will help. Mix a teaspoon of black tea with half a teaspoon of cumin seeds, pour boiling water over and brew for five minutes. The ingredients simultaneously tone up, fight viruses and relieve mucosal inflammation.
A sore throat will reduce rinsing. Dissolve 5 drops of iodine in a glass of warm boiled water, add a teaspoon of salt and the same amount of soda. Gargle with the solution 6-10 times a day. The remedy kills bacteria and viruses and helps the immune system to cope with the infection.
For sore throat and dry cough prepare a solution for inhalation. Mix 2 teaspoons of oak bark and dried chamomile inflorescences, pour in two glasses of boiling water, sweat in a water bath for 15 minutes. Add 10-15 drops of eucalyptus tincture. Pour into a wide saucepan, cool to + 40 ° C and inhale, covering your head with a towel.
Important! It is impossible to use boiling water for the procedure, this can lead to burns of the respiratory tract.
Destroy infection and boost immunity you can use tea with ginger root. You will need 4 black peppercorns, 4 cardamom, 3 cloves, medium ginger root, and cinnamon to taste. Grind everything in a coffee grinder. Pour 300 ml of warm water into an enamel pot, add the spices, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 20 minutes. Finally, add a pinch of black tea, some milk and a teaspoon of honey.
With a runny nose prepare the composition for instillation. Dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a glass of water. Apply every hour.
Use vasoconstrictor drops. They disrupt the condition of the mucous membrane. As a result, the runny nose only intensifies and can even become chronic.
Apply drops based on onion and beetroot juice for a cold, they are very aggressive.
Take cough suppressants. This will lead to accumulation of phlegm in the bronchi.
If there are no visible improvements within two days, you cannot do without consulting a doctor. Fever, chills, persistent headache, pain in the ears, around the eyes and nose, wheezing in the chest, sensitivity to light are symptoms that indicate that a serious medical examination is required.