How To Quickly And Effectively Get Rid Of Colds And Runny Nose

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How to get rid of a cold quickly and effectively

Content:

• 5 main rules for getting rid of a cold quickly
• An effective method for the common cold
• Folk remedies for quickly getting rid of a cold
• Why won't the flu and colds go away?

5 main rules for getting rid of a cold quickly

Treatment of the infection should be started immediately after the first symptoms of the disease appear.

Observing a few simple rules, you can quickly get rid of the disease, preventing its development:

• It is strictly forbidden to go to work. Working during an illness is not a risk of getting a raise, but rather serious complications. Therefore, if there are signs of malaise, it is worth approaching the management and taking time off home. It is important to go home and not to the clinic. After all, it is not yet known what constitutes a great danger to health - long queues at the hospital with people infected in it or working with a cold.
• At home, first of all, you need to measure the temperature. When the mark on the thermometer does not exceed 38 ° C, then no medicine should be taken. It is dangerous and harmful to bring down a low body temperature. It is worth knowing that most of the funds designed to urgently relieve the patient of a cold contain a component aimed at lowering body temperature.
• It is necessary to take a loading dose of vitamin C. This will increase the body's immune forces. To do this, you can use two lemons or oranges, or ascorbic acid.

• It is important to keep your body hydrated. You can drink everything except alcoholic beverages. Fruit drinks, teas, warm water and juice will be great helpers. However, you should refrain from drinking too hot drinks, contrary to popular belief, they are not beneficial. Such drinks will only additionally irritate an already sore throat.
• The final stage will be insulation. To do this, you should put on warm socks on your feet, and cover yourself with a blanket on top. In order to gain strength, you need to sleep well. Most likely, these measures will allow you to wake up healthy and full of energy the next day, and there will be no memory of the beginning runny nose and sore throat.

An effective method for the common cold

So, we go to the pharmacy for "penny" furacilin. For those who are not yet familiar with it, we explain: these are such yellow tablets, similar in composition to sea water. The latter in our latitudes in its pure form is not easy to get, but if you are lucky, there is no guarantee that it will be suitable for medicinal purposes.

1. To treat an uncomplicated rhinitis, you will need a couple of packs of this drug. Grind 2-3 tablets and mix the resulting mass with a glass of warm water - the solution for rinsing the nose is ready! By the way, if you really want to do without pharmacy products, replace furacilin with one teaspoon of ordinary baking soda.

   In the same place in the pharmacy you can buy a rubber bulb (it can also be called a nasal aspirator or a child's “nozzle suction”). We clean the nose, fill the pear with the prepared solution and inject it into each nostril with an intense stream. Important: at the time of the procedure, the head should be bent over the sink! Then we carefully blow our nose out - together with the poured liquid, mucus, which previously did not want to leave your nose, will go away. If the solution flows out through the other nostril, it means that an even greater therapeutic effect has been achieved - in addition to the outer parts of the nasal cavity, its internal passages are also rinsed.

   The procedure should be repeated every hour, and then by the evening of the same day you will feel significant relief or at least notice a positive trend.

2. In parallel with frequent washing, it is worth deploying an attack on viruses in other directions: drinking plenty of warm liquid (best of all, if it is freshly prepared cranberry juice or tea with lemon), in the absence of allergies, lean on honey (to heighten the effect, it can be added to the fruit drink) … If you combine these activities with food restrictions (at least harmful), then the result will not be long in coming!
3. Finally, we want to warn you: in the treatment of a cold, try not to use vasoconstrictor drugs. Of course, with severe nasal congestion, they provide quick relief, but they do not eliminate its main sources - pathogenic viruses and bacteria.

As a result of the action of such drops:

• vessels dilate
• the amount of mucus is noticeably reduced

Folk remedies for quickly getting rid of a cold

• Thanks to vitamin C, getting rid of the virus will be easy. It strengthens the immune system, stimulates the body to fight viruses. Therefore, before starting treatment with drugs, you need to change your diet. It should include rose hips, black currants, citrus fruits, cranberries, apples. You can get rid of the onset of a cold by drinking a few glasses of warm tea or warm water, with the addition of lemon juice to the drink. It is necessary to drink such a liquid in a glass every two hours. However, it is worth remembering about citrus allergies.
• Ginger root copes well with viruses. To combat colds, it is worth cutting it into pieces and pouring it with boiling water. You can drink the drink after cooling down by adding honey or sugar to it.
• You can also use aromatic oils to fight disease. Simply put them on your wrist or turn on an existing scent lamp. Lemon, cardamom, pine oil will help to cope with viruses and microbes.
• Tea with cardamom is no less useful. It allows you to get rid of colds, relieves spasm from the throat, eliminates the first signs of pharyngitis. However, you should drink such a drink after the first, even minor manifestations of a cold. To make healing tea, you will need to take 8 boxes of the plant and 1.5 liters of water. It should be boiled together with cardamom and left on the fire for another 5 minutes. When the drink has cooled down, you can drink it. You can add honey or milk to enhance the taste.
• Chamomile and lime infusions are no less useful for getting rid of colds. You can also use tea with raspberries and viburnum. They are especially useful when the body temperature rises. Such drinks are excellent at lowering it.

In the event that the body temperature is elevated, it is worth giving up mustard plasters and warming the legs for a couple. This will only worsen the symptoms of a cold.

To eliminate a runny nose without medication, you can use the following recipes:

• Rinse the nasal cavity with a solution of sea salt, this will wash out the bacteria that multiply in the mucus from the sinuses;
• Take two eggs, boil them, and, wrapped in a cloth, attach to the sinuses;
• To drip a drop of beet juice into the nose, it must first be diluted with the same amount of water.

There are also no less effective recipes to get rid of painful sensations in the throat:

• Prepare an infusion on pine buds. To do this, take 1 tablespoon of kidneys, put it in a glass container and add two glasses of boiling water. All this should stand for at least an hour. If possible, it is better to use a thermos. You need to drink a quarter of a glass, no more than three times a day.
• With the help of beetroot juice, you can get rid of not only rhinitis, but also relieve sore throat. To do this, you need to drink it, diluting it exactly half with carrot juice. If you add a spoonful of vinegar to the juice, you can gargle with it.
• Radish juice combined with honey is an excellent cough remedy. You can either add the juice squeezed from the root vegetable to honey, or the honey itself can be put in the middle of the radish. To do this, you need to make a depression in it and wait until it gives juice. The number of receptions of such a remedy must be divided by three times, the volume is 1 teaspoon.
• The most effective way to relieve sore throat is gargling. The interval between approaches should not be more than two hours. To do this, you can use herbal infusions, a solution of soda and iodine. Not many people know that egg white helps a lot. To do this, stir it with half a glass of warm water, add a teaspoon of both soda and salt there. Bring the volume to a full glass, gargle with this solution.

An important rule for all sick people is to give fresh air access. Therefore, in order to get rid of the disease, it is necessary to ventilate the room as often as possible. Clean air in combination with folk remedies helps to quickly get rid of any beginning ARVI.

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The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).