Often, flu and colds in children and adults are accompanied by cough, lingering and dry, wet and tearful. It is especially difficult to eliminate a dry cough that becomes chronic. It can bother for weeks, and sometimes months. To treat it, you can use various medications, capsules, tablets, dry cough syrup, and you can choose folk remedies. They have a healing effect on the respiratory system, do not give side effects and do not overload the human digestive system with unnecessary chemical elements.
With an unproductive dry cough, sputum does not separate. And it can become so frequent and intense that it will cause dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain, sleep disturbance, headache. Sensations of scratching in the throat, perspiration with pharyngitis are also caused by a painful coughing up. With tracheitis and laryngitis, it can be barking, chest, with inflammation of the vocal cords - hoarse, with chlamydial lesions of the bronchopulmonary apparatus - abrupt, with whooping cough - paroxysmal.
With such symptoms, the use of expectorant herbs, bronchodilators, mucolytics is contraindicated. Without sputum, these drugs will only increase the intensity of the cough and increase inflammation of the mucous membrane. With such painful symptoms, it is better to be treated with antitussive agents, such as dry cough syrup.
In folk medicine, there are recipes that act as antitussive preparations made by industry. So, the following dry cough syrup is very effective. To prepare, take one teaspoon of high-quality natural honey, the same amount of cocoa powder and butter, two tsp. vodka or one alcohol. All components are mixed until a homogeneous mass. The resulting syrup for dry cough is consumed 3 times for 1 tsp. half an hour before meals, as well as before bedtime.
To cure a cough, it should act on the bronchial mucosa, on the cough center. The use of medicinal plants with an expectorant effect with dry cough is contraindicated. It is believed that therapeutic raw materials collected in a different geographical area, away from the patient’s residence, are ineffective. Some drugs have limitations for their use in treating children.
Today, from official drugs, Glycodin, a cough syrup for adults and for children, is an excellent treatment. This is a safe, effective, comprehensive drug, consisting of balanced active substances of various directions. The tool is used to treat patients with dry as well as with productive cough, in which sputum is difficult to separate. The medicine has a reversible mild effect on the cough center, regulates the secretory function of the epithelium of the respiratory organs, protects the mucosa of the tracheobronchial tree. This remedy can also be used as a syrup for wet cough.
A well-known folk remedy for getting rid of dry cough is onion. This medicine is prepared as follows. In a liter of boiling water put 2 medium onions with husk and add a glass of sugar. The broth is set to simmer for an hour over low heat, then filtered and consumed in the form of heat, 100 grams four times a day.
Used to treat cough and onion juice with sugar. At night, leave the chopped onion in a container, mixing it well with two tablespoons. Sahara. The next day, this onion juice must be consumed completely during the day.
Well, everyone knows the cough remedy that has been treated for many generations - warm milk with various additives: cream, yolk, honey.
For the best effect, dry cough syrup can be combined with folk remedies, only this should be done at different intervals.