Runny nose is undoubtedly the most common symptom of acute respiratory infections, with which thousands of people are forced to fight every day. In pharmacies, there are many drugs that promise quick recovery to customers, but most of them belong to different pharmacological groups, and therefore have different effects on the human body. How not to get confused in this variety and what to choose for yourself?
We provide an overview of most of the groups on the market that are designed to combat the common cold.
Medicinal drops
Decongensants
Most nasal drops on the market are represented by drugs, the main active ingredient of which is an alpha-adrenergic agonist (decongent), they provide a vasoconstrictor effect, thereby reducing swelling and hyperemia in the nasal mucosa. There are a large number of trade names for these drugs, you can only mention the most popular of them - naphthyzin, nazol, ximilin, nazivin, tizin, sanoril, otrivin, etc.
Among these drugs, there are quite a few that can be used as a cold medicine for children. For example, nazivin, otrivin and nazol baby.
Decongensant + H1-histamine blockers
The combination of two active substances helps to more effectively fight a runny nose. The fact is that adrenergic agonists constrict blood vessels, while H1-histamine blockers relieve edema that has appeared. These drugs include - nazol baby, vibrocil, sanoril-analergin. It is noteworthy that all of these medicines can be used to treat a baby’s cold .
Decongensants + mucolytics
In this ligament, each substance does its own thing, adrenergic agonists relieve hyperemia and edema, and mucolytics remove the accumulated mucus, thus freeing up the tunnel for breathing. This type of drug includes rinofluimucil.
You must understand that taking any vasoconstrictor, your nose gradually gets used to them, so you can not continue the course of treatment for more than one week. Otherwise, the medicine will not only stop helping, but it can also cause a runny nose, as well as a complication such as drug rhinitis.
Saline solutions
Quite popular today are drugs that contain saline solutions, these include aqua maris, marimer, saline, etc. The main effect of these drugs is to wash the nasal mucosa, due to which all foreign particles, microbes and allergens must be washed off. In addition, they can help reduce inflammation of the nasal mucosa.
The drugs of this group are not addictive and do not have any common side effects, but their frequent use can also reduce the effectiveness of treatment.
Cold tablets
Most drugs try to act locally on the outbreak, so drugs such as colds from the common cold are relatively scarce on the market. Homeopathic tablets from the common cold of Corizalia must be taken every hour on the first day of the disease, and then another 4 days, one tablet every hour.
The manufacturer claims that his cold tablets cannot cause any side effects, with the exception of individual allergic reactions, and also can not cause an overdose of this medicine.
The main thing! I hope that everyone understands that treating their health by trusting information received on the Internet is at least stupid. Please bother and read at least the first points of the annotation of the medicine that you are going to take. It is for you that all information on contraindications and possible complications is usually given on the first page of the instruction.