A runny nose is a disease of the nasal mucosa that most often occurs as a manifestation of ARVI, as well as due to various microbes (staphylococci, streptococci, etc.) and allergies. How to treat a runny nose? For its treatment, you can use medications, as well as folk remedies. Often, drugs have a negative property - they constrict the capillaries of the nose, and despite the common cold, stagnation can occur, which in turn can cause more serious diseases, such as sinusitis. Frequent use of aerosols from the common cold can lead to overdrying of the nasal mucosa.
How to treat a runny nose? For this, various antiviral drugs are used, which are usually made from leukocytes from the blood of a donor, or they use genetic engineering methods for production. This is a powerful tool that fixes the root of the problem.
As an additional treatment, you can use moisturizing preparations that contain sea salt. They will have a beneficial effect and can be used without restrictions, since they do not contain substances that can cause side effects.
How to treat a runny nose from folk remedies?
There are a number of effective methods of traditional medicine.
- Steam inhalation will give a tangible result. To do this, boil the potatoes in their uniforms and breathe steam for 20 minutes, covered with a large towel. You can also use decoctions of chamomile, sage, calendula and eucalyptus. This method should be used no more than 2 times a day.
- Washing the nose with salt water or diluted aloe juice will also have the necessary effect.
- Drink more hot liquid: tea with a slice of lemon, rosehip or black currant.
- When the first signs of the disease appear, do foot baths. Water should be around 45 degrees. In the bath place dried needles of fir, pine or birch leaves or just add a little mustard. It is recommended to drink tea with raspberry jam after it.
- Bury the juice from garlic and onions (diluted with water and honey).
- How to treat a runny nose yet? The juice of white cabbage or raw beets will help.
- A mixture of oak bark, white willow, peppermint leaves, St. John's wort grass, linden flowers, pour a glass of boiling water for 4 hours. Add 4 drops of fir oil. Bury your nose 3 times a day.
- Warming up the nose with hot salt wrapped in tissue (morning and night).
Runny nose has a positive property. In particular, the sinuses are relieved of accumulated mucus. It must be treated at the initial stage, preferably before the appearance of discharge from the nose.
How to treat a runny nose in a child? You can use all of the above methods. A special approach is needed for infants, since they can not breathe through the mouth like adults. In addition, without nasal breathing, sucking is impossible. Due to the structural features of the nasopharynx, not only the nasal mucosa, but also the pharynx itself becomes inflamed. Infants therefore may develop middle ear inflammation (acute otitis media).
Kids can not blow their nose on their own, so they need help. Treatment of the common cold in infants has its own characteristics. Before proceeding to it, you need to free the baby’s nose from the discharge using special suction, which is sold in pharmacies, or a small rubber bulb. You need to bury the baby’s nose with a mixture of warm saline and breast milk in a ratio of 1 to 1. You can also use chamomile broth. It is unacceptable to use vasoconstrictive drops, since the risk of developing otitis media increases or a runny nose can turn into a chronic form. Before feeding, the nose must be cleaned. When the runny nose is almost gone, a lot of crusts will appear in the baby's nose. You need to clean them with a cotton swab. Before this, grease the crusts with baby oil so that they can be easily removed.