Cold treatment. How to quickly cure a cold with medicines and folk methods Emergency measures for a cold

I have always been interested in the question, how do some people manage not to get sick in the SARS epidemic? Don't hurt at all. Only many years later, I realized that these people get sick, but from the first symptoms of the disease they fight it, try to maintain their health and cure the “cold” as quickly as possible.

The most important thing is not to miss the onset of the disease. How many times do you have to overcome it so as not to take a sick leave at work, not to upset your loved ones and endure fever, runny nose, pain.

There are remedies that we can take from the first symptoms of the disease in order to recover faster. These are not only medicines, but massage, including acupressure, herbs, vitamins, ointments. We know all this, but we often lack the willpower to bring the disease under control.

The most common cause of malaise is a cold or SARS. There are different ARVI viruses, so the infection occurs with a different clinic. There may be a high temperature with minimal catarrhal symptoms (no runny nose and cough), on the contrary, there may be nasal congestion, sore throat, and the temperature is low.

Some people tolerate SARS without fever at all. This also applies to weakened elderly people, in whom a cold can outwardly manifest itself as lethargy, drowsiness. For such people, it is imperative to call a doctor so that he listens to the lungs, looks at the throat and, if there are signs of a viral infection, prescribes the appropriate treatment.

I had a case when I was a local therapist. One grandfather calls, and in the house call it says - a runny nose. Well, I think it's caused by a runny nose? The dispatcher must have made a mistake. I come to the call - indeed, the grandfather complains about nasal congestion, no fever, no cough. I looked at my grandfather. Has appointed or nominated from a rhinitis treatment.

And what? I hear a cough from the next room, and there my grandmother, with a temperature of 40 degrees, is lying, coughing, she has pneumonia. In the lungs everything wheezes. Has appointed or nominated treatment and to the grandmother. Here's an example. One with a runny nose calls a doctor, and the other suffers in a serious condition.

You don't have to do it either way. You need to know how to treat a runny nose and know when to seek help in order to quickly cure a cold and avoid complications.

If you want to cure a cold faster, you need prevention

Let's start with the fact that during the epidemic it is necessary to take preventive measures:

1. Flu vaccine - free of charge at the clinic at the place of attachment of the CHI or in private clinics;

2. Wearing a mask in public places, especially if you come to a clinic where there are a lot of sick people;

3. Smear in the nose with oxolin ointment for the entire period of the epidemic when you go outside;

4. Take prophylactic courses of antiviral drugs: lavomax (amiksin, tiloram), kagocel, ingavirin, arbidol, ergoferon, tamiflu. The instructions for each drug describe well how to take it prophylactically. Usually prophylactic reception from several days to several weeks. They are taken prophylactically upon contact with a sick person (someone fell ill at home) or at work that involves communicating with a large number of people, where the risk of infection increases significantly (sellers, bank operators, teachers, kindergarten teachers, etc. )

5. Wash your hands often with soap or disinfectant! Sometimes this simple action can protect us from infection. Not only wash your hands, but also disinfect doorknobs, keep your home clean.

6. During the epidemic, the apartment can be quartz. Now portable ultraviolet irradiation devices such as "Ray", "sun" are being sold. With their help, you can disinfect the apartment, can be used as an aid in the onset of the disease. If there is no quartz, you can ventilate the rooms, open windows for 15 - 20 minutes. You can ventilate and quartz at the same time.

How to get well soon if you have a cold

If you still get sick and feel chills, you need not to let the situation get out of control, but urgently take action.

1. Antiviral drugs are no longer as prevention, but as a treatment. The drugs are taken the same as for prevention, only according to a different scheme. Usually, the dosage regimen is described in detail in the instructions or on the website of the drug. Sometimes, after treatment with antiviral drugs, the initial symptoms of SARS stop and the person recovers very quickly. For pregnant women, we prescribe children's dosages of viferon or geneferon from antiviral drugs.

2. Gargling 5-6 times a day with a decoction of chamomile or calendula, chlorhexidine, furacilin. In the past, an effective, but unpleasant-tasting remedy called "sea water" was often used. We take a glass of warm water, drip 5 drops of iodine, a tablespoon of salt, a tablespoon of soda into it. A couple of rinses - and the throat is disinfected. Now iodine is not used so widely due to the increased incidence of allergies. But there were a lot of lollipops for the throat. They are convenient to use, but still it is better not to abuse them, because, unlike rinsing, they do not clean the surface of the pharynx, and some cause irritation, because they contain a lot of essential oils and preservatives.

3. Washing the nose with saline solutions. There are many ready-made hypertonic solutions for washing the nose on sale, you can make a saline solution yourself and wash your nose with it from a teapot. There is, finally, "Dolphin" - a special jar and powders for washing the nose with salt and chamomile. When washing the nose, the viruses are mechanically washed off with water and the disease does not develop. After washing, you can put turundas with aloe juice or Vitaon balm in your nose, these remedies not only relieve inflammation, but also stimulate local immunity.

4. Loading doses of vitamins. B vitamins boost immunity. Ascorbic acid helps fight the virus. Vitamins are now sold in a variety of ways, from expensive complexes to penny ascorbic acid and rosehip syrup, familiar to us since childhood.

5. Folk remedies in addition to the main treatment to recover faster:

• milk with honey;
• finely chop the onion and cover with sugar, drink the juice that stands out;
• warm your feet with mustard in a bowl;
• brew herbs: oregano, St. John's wort, licorice, chamomile, sage, calendula. Herbs insist on a water bath for 20 minutes, then cover with a heating pad and leave for 40 minutes, then, when it cools down, drained and stored in the refrigerator, slightly warmed up or boiled water is added. You can brew herbal preparations, you can also some one herb. Herbs are good because they have bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, and expectorant effects. That is, we get a complex effect on the body. You can add a spoonful of honey to the herbs. Of the herbs for pregnant women, chamomile and calendula are suitable;
• carry a clove of garlic around your neck on a string, put saucers with garlic gruel around the apartment;
• drink ginger tea. Ginger tea is brewed from grated or dry ginger, you can add a little honey. Ginger tea can be recommended to pregnant women for the treatment of colds.

6. Acupressure helps very well with the first symptoms of the disease. Below is a diagram. We act with thumbs or forefingers on biologically active points counterclockwise up to 21 times, for the best effect, you can do it in the morning and in the evening.

7. Balm "golden star" and similar ointments and patches with essential oils are usually applied to the area near the nostrils or on the sternum, where active points are located. These drugs relieve nasal congestion well, they also have a bactericidal effect.

6. Home physiotherapy. Now there are so many portable devices on sale that you can arrange a real physical cabinet at home. These are UFO quartz (they have already been mentioned), a magnet, denos, a nebulizer. Before using them, you need to carefully read the instructions and use only if you have no contraindications to physiotherapy.

If we overcome the disease with these means, it is very good and will allow us to cure colds much faster. But if the symptoms remain after 5 days of treatment or intensify - cough with green sputum, purulent discharge from the nose, pain and stuffy ears, general weakness, fever above 39 degrees, all this is an indication for the appointment of antibiotics.

You need a doctor to prescribe antibiotics. It is not recommended to prescribe these medicines on your own, because usually people take the drug that once helped, which means they have already taken it. This should not be done, because our microbes may be resistant to this particular antibiotic.

To prescribe such treatment, the doctor takes into account many factors: what medications have you taken recently, do you smoke, is your work related to people, do you often get sick, what is the state of your cardiovascular system, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, what time year, how you tolerate antibiotic treatment, side effects of medications.

Therefore, antibiotics are sold in pharmacies by prescription. Some unscrupulous pharmacists still sell antibiotics, but this is wrong. If it comes to taking antibiotics, it is better to get an examination by a doctor so as not to miss a complication.

I wish you and your loved ones not to get sick!

Therapist Loginova Maria Pavlovna

We are used to treating colds at home. So many natural medicines at hand. Home recipes in an instant will bring the patient to his senses. And you don’t have to go to hospitals and spend money on expensive drugs. Some pluses. Are there any downsides? Is it worth it to be so confident in the healing effect of traditional medicine and take colds so lightly? What to take for adults?

What are colds and flu

It is a mistake to consider a cold a disease. It's more of a reason for it. Although in the understanding of an ordinary resident of our country who does not have a medical education, a cold is a runny nose, and flu, and SARS, and pharyngitis, and cough. ?

Hypothermia can only provoke infectious diseases, weakening the immune system. The body becomes more susceptible to the effects of pathogens.

Specialists under the common cold understand acute nonspecific rhinitis. Cooling the body activates the activity of pathogenic microbes that cause inflammation of the mucous membranes. Treatment of vasomotor rhinitis is described in.

Colds are united not only by the cause, but also by the general symptoms:

• Runny nose.
• Weepy eyes.
• Sneezing.
• Sometimes elevated body temperature.
• Lethargy, weakness and malaise.

Treatment with folk remedies

The exclusion of "chemistry" from the diet and everyday life can be called a modern trend. An alternative to official medicine with pills, syrups and injections is no less popular - traditional medicine. But the knowledge of our ancestors has been enriched by new research. We now know that when coughing, in no case should you go to warm up and take a steam bath. We will not drip honey drops into the nose or smear honey on the throat. After all, both folk recipes activate the reproduction of bacteria.

But today we take only the best from folk, home medicine - everything that helps to strengthen the immune system.

The modern approach to home treatment means listening to your body and not interfering with the natural work of the immune system. How to do it right?

1. Do not bring down the elevated temperature if it is less than 38 degrees. An increase in temperature is a sign of the body's fight against infection.
2. Drink plenty of water to loosen mucus and improve circulation.
3. Stay in bed and get as much sleep as possible.
4. Don't force yourself to eat if you don't feel like it.
5. Use an integrated approach in the treatment of colds: drink herbal teas and decoctions, and do foot baths.
6. Start with the appearance of the first symptoms, do not start the disease.
7. Eat foods high in vitamins, which will support the immune system in the fight against disease. The leader, of course, is vitamin C.

Treatment of the disease

How to set up the body for an uncompromising fight against the disease? How to make the immune system cheer up and protect you from it? Gather an anti-cold first aid kit. Put a lot of lemons, raspberry jam, honey, ginger, cranberries, herbs in it and decorate it with a sprig of pine. It is also an important component, it has a calming, analgesic and antispasmodic effect. But seriously? What to do with such wealth? Medicines for the common cold are collected in.

Vitamin fruit drinks

What to drink? The recipe can be chosen for every taste:

• From: cut the lemons into slices, pour warm water over it and add honey to taste.

Honey in hot water loses its beneficial properties.

• From cranberries or currants: crush the berries by hand or chop with a blender, fill with water and strain.
• Brew fortifying and immunostimulating teas and decoctions.
• With ginger: grate 6-7 cm of ginger root, pour 2 liters of boiling water and let it brew for 1-2 hours. You can add half a lemon and 1 tsp. cardamom.
• With raspberries or strawberries: you just need to pour hot water, if these are dried berries, then boil for 2-3 minutes and let it brew.
• With lime blossom: brew 1 tbsp. dried lime flowers 200 ml of water, close the container, wrap with a towel and let it brew.
• Dandelion: 1 tsp brew the crushed plant with 1 cup of boiling water and let it brew for half an hour.
• With viburnum or sea buckthorn: brew the berries with water (1 tablespoon per 1 cup, boil over a fire for 4-5 minutes and drink hot in small sips.

Teas have anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diaphoretic effects. You can improve its taste with honey, which is more useful to eat as a bite.

aromatherapy

For a pleasant procedure, buy an aroma lamp or an aroma pendant. It is useful to grind oils and even add to tea.

Recipes for aromatherapy:

• For inhalation: in the morning - 3 drops of eucalyptus oil, in the evening - 3 drops of lavender.
• For rubbing: add 5 drops of mint, 2 tea tree, 2 eucalyptus, 1 fir to the baby cream and rub into the chest and back.

The danger of essential oils is that they are very allergenic. Test them before use.

Warming up the legs

The most popular and effective foot bath recipe is with mustard. You just need to pour mustard powder with hot water and warm your feet.

You can warm your feet in this way only in the absence of elevated temperature.

Bed rest

The regime includes not only sleep, but also food. But what kind of food are we talking about if you don’t feel like eating at all? Chicken broth and warm milk with honey will help out. It is useful to ventilate the room, because pathogenic bacteria accumulate in the air of the room.

Treatment of symptoms at home in adults

You need to drip homemade drops 2-3 times a day, 4-5 drops in each nostril.

Nasal lavage

The traditional recipe for - saline solution: 0.5 tsp. for 1 glass of water. Stand above the pelvis, tilt your head parallel to the floor and start pouring saline into one nostril so that the water flows out of the other.

For sore throat

To get rid of a sore throat, you need antiseptic and anti-inflammatory drugs.

• Rinsing. The most common homemade recipes are warm milk with soda (1 cup and 1 tsp) or butter, a decoction of chamomile or calendula (1 tablespoon of herbs per 200 ml of water) and saline.
• Teas and decoctions. The most effective inflammation-relieving teas are chamomile, calendula, and peppermint. No less effective is oatmeal.

For stuffy ears

At home, otitis media is treated with juniper tincture. Dip a cotton swab in it and place it in the ear canal. Of course, juniper tincture is not for everyone. To relieve inflammation, heated vodka is suitable. To reduce pain - lavender oil.

• warming up. Usually, warming up the house is carried out with mustard plasters or pepper plaster. If they are not, then you should not despair. Spread fir oil on your back and chest and cover yourself with a blanket. Badger fat and grated horseradish compress warms up very well.
• Chest fees. Traditionally, the chest collection includes linden, coltsfoot, mint, plantain, pine buds, oregano, thyme, calendula and lungwort. It can be bought at a pharmacy. Helps with cough juice of birch leaves.

Recommendations and preventive procedures at the first sign of a cold

To avoid colds, you need to avoid hypothermia. Dress for the weather. During epidemics of infectious diseases, try not to visit crowded places. Wash your hands with soap upon arrival home. Feel free to wear a mask.

Cough into your elbow, so you will spread the infection less.

Medicines for the flu are no longer enough.

A cold is not a diagnosis. This is a common household name for diseases that attack us mainly in winter and autumn, when it is cold outside.

A cold is recognized by a runny nose, stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, headache, and weakness. Sometimes the temperature rises.

Where does the cold come from

The cold is not caused by the cold, as you might think based on its name. Usually a cold is a viral infection, what is abbreviated on the cards.

There are a huge number of viruses around us that cause similar symptoms. Viruses are spread through air or touch common cold in places where a lot of people gather: in transport, offices, schools. When microbes enter the body, our immune system responds to the attack and produces antibodies - protective proteins that kill the virus. It takes several days, from three to ten, and then the immune system destroys the microbe.

Viruses spread during the cold season, and it is not known exactly why this happens. There is a theory that at low temperatures, our immunity weakens and is worse at repelling virus attacks. Can Being Cold Really Make You Sick?. This means that it is not the forgotten hat that is to blame for the cold, but the unpreparedness of the body to fight germs.

By the way, the flu also belongs to the same "cold" ARVI, but it is a much more complex and dangerous virus. How to deal with it, Lifehacker already.

How to treat a cold

A cold actually goes away on its own in about a week when the antibodies show up. But we can help the body to more easily endure the disease.

Stay at home and rest

Of course, we are very busy and cannot afford to relax because of a cold. But the body is also very busy: it is inundated with the fight against viruses. And his deadline is more important.

Bed rest is just what you need when you feel unwell.

In addition, respiratory viruses (those that infect the respiratory system) are highly contagious. If you have enough strength to go to work or school even if you are sick, then consider that you can pass the virus on to a weakened person. And it will not be so easy for him to cope with a cold.

Drink more liquid

This is not advice from the "drink eight glasses a day" series. Liquid is really needed for a cold. Dried fruit compote or warm tea helps to cope with unpleasant symptoms. Drink 3-5 more cups a day than when you are healthy.

When there is enough fluid in the body, it is easier for all the mucous membranes (which are most affected by the action of viruses) to work. When a person is sick and drinks a lot, phlegm from the lungs and mucus from the nose easily come out, which means that viral particles do not linger in the body.

With a fever, the body loses a lot of moisture, so a high temperature is also an occasion to drink a cup of tea.

In tea, you can add decoctions of herbs: chamomile, linden, sage. They help to alleviate the symptoms of a cold and bring at least some variety to the tea menu.

Use nose drops

Drops in the nose are different, because the runny nose is different.

1. Salt water drops. Salt solution 0.9% is a good mucosal moisturizer. It will help to gently rinse the nose and remove mucus. Some manufacturers offer sea water, but in general, you can use regular saline, which is sold in a pharmacy: it is cheaper. Salt water can also be prepared at home. To do this, a teaspoon of salt must be dissolved in one liter of water. such water can be often, every half an hour. Then you will really feel the full power of a simple remedy.
2. Oil drops. Help when the nose is not blocked. They moisturize the mucous membranes and make breathing easier.
3. Vasoconstrictor drops. They remove swelling of the nose, in which it is impossible to breathe. Such drops should be used with caution: do not use them for more than five days, so as not to be addictive, do not exceed the dosage indicated in the instructions, so as not to provoke poisoning with the active substance (this is especially important for children).

Help your throat

A sore throat is best helped by mild therapy: warm tea in small sips, warm gargles, lozenges for sucking.

It is better to gargle with something that pleases you. For example, the same decoctions of herbs: chamomile or calendula.

Do not force yourself to make elixirs from iodine, soda or aloe on kerosene.

The task of rinsing is to relieve pain and swallowing, and not to destroy all living things. The virus still cannot be washed off in this way.

Use Painkillers

When your head just breaks, do not force yourself to suffer and take ibuprofen or paracetamol-based remedies.

Let the temperature work

Shoot above 38.5°C. Before this figure, it is better not to fight the fever, because it is needed to destroy viruses. Of course, if you feel unwell, it is better to help yourself with painkillers and antipyretics.

Ventilate the rooms and walk

Draft and fresh air from the window will not cause deterioration. On the contrary, they will help. Ventilation is a way to clean the air in a room from germs, the easiest and most affordable method of disinfection.

Calm walks in the fresh air also help to feel better, but you need to walk not in a shopping center, but in a park or at least an alley where there are not so many people.

Of course, walking is a remedy when you feel more or less normal or are already recovering.

How not to treat a cold

It turns out that the cold goes away by itself and does not need to be treated. But it's hard to accept, you want to do something as soon as possible and somehow influence the body - why not sit back? But that is exactly what needs to be done. With colds, care and regimen is the treatment, do not underestimate their importance.

When hands reach for the first aid kit, remember what not to do:

1. Drink antibiotics. Antibiotics only work on bacteria and do not kill viruses. Drinking antibacterial drugs without indications is dangerous: you can collect a bunch of side effects and grow a superbug that will not respond to treatment. Lifehacker has already written about this.
2. Buy antiviral drugs and immunomodulators in a pharmacy. They do not have proven effectiveness, 100% only work to empty wallets. The same applies to homeopathy.
3. Put mustard plasters and soar legs. What grandmothers and parents love so much is too dangerous: there is a high risk of getting burned from hot water or mustard. These procedures do not destroy viruses. I’ll tell you a secret that they are held in medical colleges as part of the “Distraction Procedures” theme, so that the patient feels cared for and thinks less about the disease.
4. Drink handfuls of vitamins. Especially vitamin C. It was once thought to help with colds. This is wrong 5 Tips: Natural Products for the Flu and Colds: What Does the Science Say? but old beliefs live long.

What is dangerous cold

For a more or less healthy person, a cold is not dangerous. But if you mock yourself and do not allow the body to recover, it can lead to complications. For example, a bacterial infection will join a viral infection, which needs to be treated for a long time, or a cold will turn into. In addition, the infection can become chronic, meaning it will keep coming back.

So any cold is an occasion to take care of yourself and give yourself time to recover.

When to ask for help

Behind the mask of a cold, more serious diseases can be hidden. Be sure to seek medical attention if:

1. The symptoms have not gone away for three weeks.
2. A symptom has become very severe or causes pain.
3. It became difficult to breathe.
4. There was pain in the chest.

The common cold is often a nuisance, despite the fact that its symptoms and treatment in adults are widely known.

Sometimes there is a need to get rid of the disease in a short time. To do this, you should know how to quickly cure a cold.

To avoid complications and take action quickly, you need to understand what a cold is.

The common cold is a common disease, most often children suffer from it due to unformed immunity. The reason for the development of the disease is the ingress of viruses and microbes from contaminated surfaces into the body, a decrease in immunity and the activation of opportunistic microflora or contact with sick people.

Colds are manifested by coughing, sneezing, runny nose. The outbreak of the disease occurs mainly in the off-season due to favorable weather conditions for the reproduction of microbes and viruses.

They can enter the body with secretions: sputum, saliva, nasal mucus. If a person touches the eyes or mouth with dirty hands, they enter through the mucous membrane of these organs. The body copes with most infections. But if there are enough pathogens, this leads to the development of the disease. How long a cold lasts will also depend on the functioning of the immune system.

Causes and risk factors for developing a cold:

• constant stress;
• violation of hygiene rules;
• deficiency of vitamins and microelements;
• alcohol, smoking, chronic pathologies;
• weakened immunity;
• frequent visits to crowded places;
• hypothermia and overheating

Cold symptoms

The main symptoms of a cold in adults include:

• swelling of the nasopharyngeal mucosa, difficulty breathing;
• temperature over 37-38 degrees;
• runny nose, sneezing;
• body aches;
• redness of the throat, itching, pain, irritation, perspiration;
• chills;
• severe discharge from the nose;
• increased lacrimation;
• cough;
• headache.

If colds develop against the background of a strong weakening of the body, a significant deterioration in the condition may occur. If they are not treated on time, do not comply with bed rest, this can lead to complications.

Therefore, it is necessary to take action as soon as the first signs of a cold appear.

Treatment at the first sign of a cold

The following actions are suitable for people who understand that their deterioration in health is associated with hypothermia, and only the first symptoms of a cold have appeared.

These methods are not suitable for the treatment of children, they are not recommended for use with influenza or the development of a bacterial infection. Steps to quickly get rid of a cold:

1. If it is possible not to take sick leave, you should refrain from visiting the clinic. Standing in line in medical institutions is fraught with aggravation of the condition.
2. Do not drink antipyretic drugs at temperatures below 38.5 ° C.
3. An effective cold remedy is vitamin C, it will help fight the disease much more effectively. You can take it in the form of tablets, but it is also found in large quantities in berries (raspberries, currants).
4. The cure for a cold is accelerated by drinking more fluids.
5. Effectively, if you catch a cold, drink complex preparations intended for symptomatic treatment.
6. At the first sign of a cold, you can make warm compresses on your chest or back, use menthol ointments, jars, mustard plasters.
7. You can drink a cup of hot tea and immediately go to bed.
8. If there is no hyperthermia, short walks on the street will help speed up recovery.

Cold treatment at home

Treatment of a cold begins with bed rest. You should drink plenty of fluids, this will reduce the viscosity of mucus in the respiratory system and contribute to its easier removal.

To understand how to cure a cold at home, you need to know the intricacies of the functioning of the immune system. High temperatures should not be tolerated, it is harmful to health.

You should rest a lot, give up the computer, TV and reading. You should not try to quickly cure a cold, using as many methods of struggle as possible at once.

Medications

The best medicine is prevention. Naturally, it is impossible to completely insure against a possible cold, therefore, at the first symptoms, measures must be taken. How to treat a cold depends on the characteristics of the symptoms.

Especially often they are prescribed in the treatment of children. The World Health Organization considers that taking such drugs is inappropriate. There are no reliable data from clinical studies confirming their effectiveness.

Symptomatic therapy

From symptomatic therapy can be distinguished:

• antipyretics;
• expectorants;
• throat sprays;
• nasal drops.

Medications by point of action

The former are used to relieve swelling of the mucosa and facilitate breathing. They help prevent possible complications, including otitis media and sinusitis. Usually these are drops based on xylometazoline and oxymetazoline.

Sea water is necessary to moisturize the mucosa and remove pathogenic microorganisms from the nasopharynx. Instead, you can use a cheaper analogue - saline.

Throat sprays may contain antiseptics, anti-inflammatory drugs, pain relievers. It is important to pay attention to the indications and composition of the drug so that the active substances do not cause an allergic reaction.

The means of complex action that eliminate symptoms include drugs containing acetylsalicylic acid, paracetamol, phenylephrine and other substances. Depending on the composition, they relieve an allergic reaction, facilitate breathing through the nose, and eliminate the temperature.

The temperature for a cold does not go as low as 38.5 degrees, if it grows higher, you can use drugs with paracetamol or phenylpropionic acid derivatives.

You should not prescribe antibiotics yourself and take them if you are not sure of the bacterial origin of the disease. Before deciding what to take, you should consult a therapist.

Folk remedies

Treating a cold at home involves the use of several methods. They can be used as a symptomatic therapy or as part of a complex treatment, along with drugs.

Among the folk methods intended for the treatment of the common cold, the following can be distinguished:

• washing the nasal mucosa with saline. You can prepare it like this: in 1 liter of water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sea salt;
• instillation of freshly squeezed Kalanchoe juice;
• drops from beets, potatoes or aloe. They must be diluted with water in a ratio of one to two;
• drops of honey and onion. Grate the onion and mix with 50 ml of water and 0.5 tsp. honey. Bury in each nostril 2 drops every 6 hours;
• if nasal breathing is difficult for crusts, vegetable oil (sea buckthorn, burdock or olive) can be used to soften them. A few drops are injected into each nasal passage;
• potato inhalations. Helps to ease breathing and speed up recovery. Potatoes must be boiled in their uniforms, mashed, and then breathe in its steam for about a quarter of an hour;
• onion inhalation. The onion is chopped and placed for 30 minutes in a closed container. After opening the container, it is necessary to take 2-3 breaths through the nose. Garlic also has antiseptic properties, you can use it instead of onions;
• garlic can be used in another way - take a clove and insert it into the nose as deeply as possible. You may feel a slight burning sensation, this is normal. The effect of this method appears quickly, the main thing is not to overdo it, so as not to damage the mucous membrane.

We defeat cough

Cough quickly passes if timely measures are taken to eliminate it. They include the use of medicinal decoctions, warming and inhalation.

One of the effective ways to relieve the symptoms of a cold is rubbing. In this case, it is necessary to apply a medicinal substance to the chest area and rub it. You can use the following folk remedies:

1. Castor oil. Warm up 2 tbsp. l. and stir with 1 tbsp. l. turpentine. Rub into the skin of the chest, bypassing the heart.
2. Honey. Rub the chest, preheating to body temperature. Wrap and leave to cool.
3. Camphor oil. Promotes the expansion of blood vessels, warms. It is necessary to rub the area of ​​​​the back and chest with oil.
4. You can also make a compress of apple cider vinegar: mix in a ratio of 3 to 1 with water, moisten a cloth and apply to your chest for 15 minutes. Can be applied to the neck to relieve discomfort in the throat.

Cough can be eliminated using the following drinks.

1. A decoction of medicinal herbs: mint, coltsfoot, sweet clover, oregano. 1 st. l. pour 1 tbsp. boiling water and leave for an hour in a warm place.
2. Lime tea. To prepare a drink, you need to brew a few flowers of the plant in a cup of boiling water. To improve the effect, add lemon with honey to the finished tea.
3. Black radish juice. The medicine is used fresh. Peel and chop the root crop. Add honey and put in a warm place, covered with a lid. Infuse for at least 5 hours, then drink the resulting syrup 1 tbsp. l. every 8 hours.
4. Mint. 1 st. l. plants brew 1 tbsp. boiling water and boil for 5-10 minutes. Add 1 tsp. honey and lemon. Drink before bed, preheated.
5. Herbal decoction. Has a mucolytic effect. To prepare it in equal proportions, take licorice, sage and pine buds. 1 st. l. mix pour 1 tbsp. boiling water and leave to infuse for 3 hours. After that, filter and drink 2 tbsp. l. every 4 hours until you feel better.
6. 1 st. l. heat the sugar over a fire until it turns brown. After that, cool and add milk. After hardening, a lozenge is obtained, which must be kept in the mouth until dissolved, it helps to make the cough more productive.
7. Brew 1 tbsp. l. sage in 1 tbsp. boiling water, strain and drink in the evening.
8. 1 st. l. red clover brew in 1 tbsp. boiling water. After 30 minutes of infusion, add honey and drink. Helps to treat cough and bring down the temperature.
9. Brew tea from acacia and lilac. Drink a cup 3-4 times a day.

Inhalations

Inhalations are steam and with the use of a nebulizer. They should not be made at elevated temperatures. Means for inhalation:

• aroma oils (juniper, pine, tea tree). A few drops are added to a container with boiling water and steam is inhaled for 15 minutes;
• infusions of chamomile, cranberries. The grass is poured with hot water and left for 30 minutes in a thermos. After that, the liquid is used for inhalation.

Healing the throat

If there is a sore throat, it is necessary to quickly begin treatment for a cold, because it is most often one of the first signs of the disease. Rinsing will help with this.

Rinses with decoctions of herbs help well, use chamomile or sage. 1 st. l. raw materials pour 1 tbsp. water and boil for 15 minutes. Do not use hot solution to avoid burns.

In 1 st. water pour 1 tsp. salt, you can also take baking soda and 10 drops of iodine. The mixture helps to quickly relieve symptoms, reduce inflammation and discomfort.

If necessary, alternative methods can help relieve fever. For this, table vinegar of 6-9% concentration is used. Take 1 tbsp. water and heat it to 37-38 degrees, then dilute half with acetic acid. In the resulting solution, wet and wring out a cloth and wipe the feet, palms, armpits. Next, cover yourself with a sheet and lie down for 15 minutes. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

Other Methods

The following measures help to quickly cure a cold and runny nose:

1. Take sick leave and stay at home, wrap up well, put on warm socks and pour mustard powder into them. During rest, the body recovers better, and the energy necessary to fight the disease is produced.
2. At a temperature of 36.6-37.2 degrees, you can do light exercises, take a contrast shower - this will stimulate sweating.
3. If the temperature does not rise above 37.5, you can go outside.
4. It is necessary to ventilate the room 2 times a day. Being in a draft is not recommended, so as not to cause complications.
5. Sometimes ventilation is supplemented by quartzing. Irradiation with ultraviolet light reduces the number of viruses in the room. After disinfection, the windows are opened, the room is filled with oxygen, and the ozone is vented.

Patients with cold symptoms are advised to take hot baths, wash their face more often to clear the skin of bacteria. It is necessary to change the bed as often as possible and air it on the balcony.

Abundant sweating helps to cleanse the body of the waste products of viruses. It also lowers the temperature. Herbs are used to stimulate the perspiration process. They recommend a decoction of birch, burdock, sage, dill, chamomile flowers, marshmallow root. The decoction is prepared as follows: 1 tbsp. l. vegetable raw materials pour 1 tbsp. cold water, the broth is heated in a water bath and insisted. Favor the reduction of heat and cranberry fruit drinks, lingonberry broth, viburnum and raspberry tea.

Bed rest helps treat a cold.

Treatment of colds in children

If the child has a cold, the parent needs to know how to quickly cure it. When treating children, certain precautions must be observed.

For babies, the boundary temperature to which antipyretics should not be given is not 38.5, but 38. In children, hyperthermia can cause dangerous febrile convulsions. They should not be given decoctions of berries that can cause allergies; honey is used with caution.

The basic rule is do no harm. You should not get carried away with pharmaceuticals, you need to call a doctor. Many of the treatments that are used for adults are unacceptable in this case. It is not recommended to soar the child's legs to avoid burns.

Children under 5 years of age are contraindicated in the use of iodine and products based on it, they can cause burns. If the child is very small and most of the time lies down (under the age of one), he needs to remove mucus from the nose with a special nasal aspirator.

It is not recommended to do inhalations, especially steam ones, at temperatures above 37.5 degrees. In no case should analgin and aspirin be used for children as antipyretics, the latter has a high hepatotoxic effect. Do not wrap a small child in the presence of a temperature, this can seriously worsen his condition.

It is necessary that the air in the room is cool and humid, then it will be easier for him to breathe. In the absence of temperature, it is recommended to be on the street, do inhalations with a nebulizer, and humidify the air in the room. Doctors remind that it is necessary to treat a cold in children with the use of vasoconstrictor drops from the common cold to prevent the development of otitis media.

When not to treat a cold at home

If after 3-5 days it does not get better, you need to call a doctor. The basic rule is that on the 3rd day it gets better, on the 5th only residual symptoms remain. The following signs should be alert:

• for more than 3 days the temperature is kept within 39 degrees or more;
• severe cough accompanied by wheezing and lack of sputum;
• respiratory disorders;
• very severe headaches that do not go away;
• pain in the face, especially around the nose and eyes;
• sputum with blood or pus;
• inability to eat due to severe swelling of the throat.

These signs indicate that it is no longer a cold and treatment should begin immediately. In severe cases, hospitalization will help avoid serious health consequences. Then every second can be precious.

One of the effective methods is hardening. Hardening consists in preparing the body for changes in external conditions.

This will help you avoid getting sick. If the immune system is weak, there are additional methods of protection:

1. Avoid crowded places.
2. Dress for the weather.
3. To wash hands. A good remedy for the prevention of infections that cause colds.
4. Take vitamins. Deficiency of vitamins leads to a deterioration in immunity.
5. Follow the rules of a healthy lifestyle.

During the period of the greatest prevalence of the disease, you can wear a mask. The effectiveness of protection is increased if such a mask is worn by the patient.

With proper treatment of a cold, you can achieve improvement in a short time. It is important not to forget about bed rest and avoid stress.

What to do if you have an important meeting or event in the coming days, and you feel symptoms that signal the onset of a cold? In this article, we will look at several effective ways that will allow you to cure a cold in 1 day and restore your health.

1 way to cure a cold in 1 day

You can cure a cold in 1 day using a time-tested, fast-acting remedy. One of the most effective methods is a special cocktail that contains the following ingredients:

Mix vodka and freshly squeezed onion juice in a ratio of 1:1;

Add juice from 1/3 lemon;

Add a tablespoon of honey;

If the patient's weight is from 40 to 75 kilograms, then it is recommended to drink half a glass of a cocktail, and with a body weight of 75 kilograms - 1 glass. The mixture should be drunk in small sips, and then covered with a warm blanket and sleep for at least 8-10 hours. It should be borne in mind that this method of treatment is suitable for those who do not have gastrointestinal diseases or allergies to the above components.

Additional Steps to Cure a Cold

In addition, to cure a cold, you can add a pinch of soda, honey and butter to a glass of hot milk. The mixture should be taken before going to bed, covered with several blankets to sweat well. After this procedure, you will notice that the next day your health will improve significantly.

Another effective way to help increase the body's resistance to disease is to eat two lemons with honey or dragees, which contain the required amount of vitamin C. If desired, several citrus fruits can be boiled in a container filled with three liters of water, adding honey or sugar to it. However, it should be borne in mind that this option is recommended only for those who do not have gastric diseases.

Mustard is another remedy that will help cure a cold. You can put it in warm woolen socks and put it on before bed or take a hot foot bath with it.

During a cold, it is very important to remove all harmful toxins from the body. For this purpose, you can prepare compote from any dried fruits. A dried apricot drink contains amino acids and iron, allowing the patient to recuperate, and prunes and raisin compote is rich in fructose and glucose, and in addition, this composition has a positive effect on the state of the stomach. It is recommended to drink the drink warm and preferably lying under a blanket in order to sweat properly. In order for the positive effect to be noticeable the next day, it is recommended to drink compote in large enough quantities.

2 way to cure a cold in 1 day

In order to effectively get rid of a cold or SARS in 1 day, you can apply a comprehensive treatment, thanks to which you can quickly restore your health without using any medications or antibiotics.

1. Visiting a bath or sauna

Is it possible to cure a cold in 1 day? Yes, you can. But the main thing is to catch the moment, to feel chills, body aches, sore throat and other symptoms.

The first and most effective thing to do is to go to the sauna or bath, and with essential oils, which will immediately provide you with inhalation. It will be enough for 2 hours to steam well. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids during and after the procedure! You can prepare yourself water with lemon, citrus juice (diluted with water 1 to 1),. Of course, ordinary water can also work, the main thing is that you drink a lot! After that, return home and go to bed. The next day you will be healthy.

Of course, you can warm up the body just by taking a warm bath. However, do not expect the same effect as from a bath or sauna. While taking water procedures, it is advisable to observe the measure and not lie down in too hot water, since if you find yourself steamed after a bath in bed, the disease can become even more active. The optimum water temperature should be 38C - 40C heat, and it should be in it for no longer than 30 minutes.

If you play sports, then you can resort to the "sports" method, how to cure a cold in 1 day. To do this, you need to dress in sportswear, but in such that you are very warm, and run along the street (provided that the weather is warm outside). The goal of running is to sweat as well as possible from the inside. After running, drink plenty of fluids, take a shower, and go to bed. By morning, the virus should be defeated.

2. Cleansing the sinuses

For this purpose, you need to fill the kettle with water at a temperature of approximately 37C, add a teaspoon of salt to it and stir. The nose is washed in the following way: the body should be tilted forward, leaving the back and knees straight, turn it to the right by 50 ° C, raise the head up and pour water into the right nostril, and it should flow out of the left. Perhaps at first, due to nasal congestion, you will not be able to do everything right, so you need to apply perseverance when clearing it, and everything will definitely work out. Then you should repeat the procedure for the left side, and so twice.

Salt dosage:

For adults: 1 teaspoon per 0.5 liters of warm boiled water.

For children: 1 teaspoon per 1 liter of warm boiled water.

For advanced: 1 teaspoon per 0.5 liters of warm boiled water. Here we add 1/4 teaspoon of soda and 1-2 drops of iodine.

Inhalations with onion and garlic. To perform the procedure, they are crushed and added to a pre-prepared solution for inhalation.

Sea salt inhalation. To prepare it, you need a liter of water and 3 tablespoons of salt. If desired, a teaspoon of soda is added to this solution.

You can also add essential oils, but only if you are not allergic to them. Pine oil, eucalyptus oil, Altai cedar oil, juniper oil, thuja oil, lavender oil, tea tree oil are used. To create a concentrated solution that will produce a healing effect, you will need no more than 5 drops of any oil per glass of water.

In addition, there are special devices for inhalation, which are called. This is a modern tool for performing home inhalations. Moreover, the pharmacy has a lot of ready-made solutions for nebulizers, which will speed up your recovery several times.

A mandatory item in the treatment is a warm drink, for example, green tea with currant jam and lemon. The volume of liquid you drink in the first days of a cold should be several times higher than the physiological need, up to 5 liters or more!

The most effective tea that will help you cure a cold in 1 day is described below:

Grated fresh ginger root - 1 tablespoon;

Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;

Pureed fresh or frozen cranberries - 2 teaspoons;

Boiling water - 0.5 liters.

Tea is brewed for 20 minutes. Drink 1 glass as often as possible.

Important advice - do not bring down the temperature, this can only harm the body. Try to watch TV less often and listen to music, in order for the immune system to recover, you need complete rest. A mild form of a cold with this treatment will disappear after six hours, in more difficult cases it can last about 12 hours, and serious viral diseases can be eliminated in this way in two days.

During this period, it is not recommended to eat food of animal origin. If you want to recover as soon as possible and avoid the recurrence of a cold, eat fresh fruits, which contain many beneficial vitamins and minerals.

How to cure a cold in 1 day with medicines?

Here we have listed the most effective remedies that you can buy at the pharmacy. Using them, you can quickly recover from a cold.

First of all, you need to take - amixin, which stimulates the production of interferon. In addition, it is compatible with all drugs used in the treatment of acute respiratory diseases and influenza.

At the same time, drink the natural immunomodulator Doppelherz immunotonic (Germany) to strengthen the immune system.

In case of severe cough with phlegm, buy Bromhexine in tablet form. Facilitates breathing, dilutes sputum, promotes secretion. If you have a cough without sputum, then it will be more effective to take the homeopathic remedy Stodal Syrup, which has no contraindications and side effects.