With ARVI, coughing with or without sputum is a fairly characteristic variant of the course of the disease. It is more likely to notice such symptoms in the cold season, when the activity of infections increases, while the body's ability to resist them worsens. The colder it is on the street, the less often a person walks, more often forced to stay at home, use public transport. Indoors, microscopic pathological organisms spread rapidly in society.
general information
Cough with SARS in adults, children is observed if the introduction of a pathological agent has occurred. Viruses infected sputum, saliva, sprayed in the air during talking, coughing, sneezing. These particles settle on surfaces. Having penetrated the nasopharynx, they are activated, which leads to the characteristic manifestations of the disease.
SARS manifests itself with a runny nose and cough. These two main symptoms are familiar to anyone. Usually appear on the first day of illness. Such a reaction indicates the activity of the body relative to the pathological agent that has invaded the mucous membranes of the respiratory system. The virus enters the cells, where it begins to multiply actively, gradually moving towards the bronchi, trachea, where the cough receptors are located. If the infection constantly irritates these receptors, the person suffers from a severe cough.
Which happens?
With ARVI, cough in children and adults is usually divided into wet, dry. The first is known as productive. With it, sputum is released, the respiratory system removes pathological substances. In the general case, such a cough is considered a sign of recovery. Dry is more exhausting. An unpleasant symptom is noted both during wakefulness and at night. To accelerate recovery, you need to take measures to transform cough from dry to productive. This is possible if you make sputum a little thinner.
Sometimes a cough transforms into a barking one. Such a symptom is a reason to suspect something was wrong, since with a high degree of probability it indicates a complication. It can be assumed laryngitis, tracheitis. A debilitating unproductive cough in this case is observed against the background of a wheezing voice. This condition requires immediate medical attention. Self-medication is prohibited. Improper selection of the treatment course will cause the disease to become chronic.
Simple and affordable
If you ask a doctor how to treat a cough with ARVI, the doctor will probably advise first simple options for folk remedies - they are completely safe and accessible to everyone. If these do not give an effect or the condition becomes more severe, they switch to medical treatment. The treatment technique is chosen based on the symptom. In the case of a dry cough, you need to soften the mucous membranes, thin the secret produced in the respiratory system. High efficiency of plain natural milk is noted. A glass of drink is heated to a comfortable temperature, sweetened with a spoon of honey. For greater effectiveness, you can add a small spoon of soda used for cooking to the product. You can mix milk and freshly prepared carrot juice. The finished drug is used three times daily.
Radish Against Disease
Choosing how to treat a dry cough with ARVI, it is worth taking a closer look at the radish. The root crop is especially well combined with honey. Both products by nature have bactericidal qualities, stimulate the elimination of pathological sputum.
The process of making a homemade medicine is very simple. First, the upper part is removed from the root, then a third of the pulp is removed, the resulting recess is filled with honey and the root is covered with a lid. It is necessary to insist on the product for at least half a day - this time is usually enough to stand out all the juice. Ready syrup is used inside. A single dose is a large spoon. Frequency - up to six times daily.
Safe and reliable
To relieve cough with SARS, you should drink more water. According to doctors, having enough rest, a person who drinks a lot of plain water will probably recover quickly. Sputum, accumulating in the bronchi, becomes a little more fluid if the sick person actively and drinks a lot. A liquid product excreted by the glandular system of the respiratory system is easier to withdraw, the cough for the patient will not be so painful, it will pass earlier. The less a person drinks, the less fluid in the body, and this affects the performance of all internal systems and organs. Respiratory is no exception: sputum thickens, and it is very difficult to remove such a substance.
With a lack of fluid in the patient’s body, a painful cough is disturbing. Sputum from a means of removing microbes and viruses turns into a nutrient substrate for their reproduction. The risk of complications becomes more significant. There will be a greater risk of bacterial infection.
How much to drink?
To cope with cough with SARS, it is usually sufficient to drink plenty of warm water. Only this measure is enough to exclude any complications. Cough suppressants are not required. No expectorant or mucolytic. Even herbs are not needed. To understand what amounts to be considered a plentiful drink, you need to recall your norm of cups of water, tea and other drinks. During illness, you need to drink an average of four more circles of fluid per day. It is best to devote this volume to tea sweetened with honey. For the greater benefit of the drink, several slices of lemon are introduced into it. True, you first need to make sure that there is no allergy.
Natural antibiotic
To cough with ARVI faster, you need to help yourself with useful products, and honey is considered the most effective. This is a natural antibiotic that does not harm the body (if there is no allergy), is useful in any disease. In addition, honey is just delicious. One spoonful of the product is slowly absorbed shortly before bedtime. Such a tool has been tested for centuries. It has been proven that honey quickly and effectively soothes a cough, which means that the patient will be able to sleep well. True, they do not recommend giving such a sweetness to a very small child. For patients younger than one year of age, a natural antibiotic is prohibited.
Environment and breathing
Compliance with proper breathing will bring no less benefit to the sufferer. It is necessary to control the quality of the atmosphere. It is important that the air is moist, warm, clean. If the environment is too dry, there is a lot of dust in the room, stuffy, it will only harm a person. To improve air quality, you need to regularly do wet cleanings, mop floors, and avoid cluttering open spaces. It is recommended to ventilate the house three times daily. From the room in which the patient lives, you need to remove all sources of dust - carpets, toys. The patient should regularly take a warm shower (bath). The moist air that a person breathes during the procedure has a beneficial effect on the body. No less useful will be a moisturizer. This can be done with your own hands. The device allows you to save the level of humidity around 40-60%, and this is the most comfortable and beneficial for humans.
Candy or medicine?
To quickly eliminate the cough with ARVI, it is worth taking a look at a variety of pharmacy sweets designed specifically to combat the cough reflex. However, simple store candies, especially those containing mint, eucalyptus, menthol, are also useful. When coughing, the throat is irritated, which, in turn, provokes a new wave of coughing. More often it occurs dry, no sputum is excreted. If a person absorbs candy, at the same time he swallows small volumes of saliva, moisturizing the mucous membranes. This weakens the cough and makes it less severe.
Runny nose and cough: everything is interconnected
The mucus generated by a runny nose can irritate the throat, causing a cough. If the nose is blocked, breathing is impossible, you cannot blow your nose, you can try narrowing the vessels of the drop. These are made using xylo-, oxymetazolinoa, phenylephrine.
Sometimes salted water is useful - saline. For its preparation in a liter of pure warm water, a small spoonful of salt is bred. The liquid is instilled into the nose. The medicine is considered the most affordable and simple. It allows you to quickly get rid of a cold, after which a cough usually passes soon.
Medications: what are they?
If the treatment of cough with ARVI with simple methods does not work, you can try medicinal products. The responsible doctor must choose the right course. If you do not consult a specialist in time, serious complications are possible.
Doctors often prescribe Derinat. This is an antiviral medication that effectively eliminates the pathogen, modulating immunity at the humoral level and in the cells. The product has inherent reparative qualities. Its reception allows you to normalize the state of the nasopharyngeal mucosa. This reduces the risk of penetration of the infectious agent deeper, therefore, the risk of complications is reduced.
To treat or not?
If you ask the doctor how long the cough for ARVI lasts, the doctor will say that on average - no more than three weeks. This duration is considered normal, reflects the body's response to viral invasion. Do not suppress the symptom with pills, because at first it can be harmful. As soon as the body copes with the introduced virus, the cough itself will pass. However, sometimes it happens that the cold has almost completely disappeared, there is neither heat nor a cold, and the cough is still worrying. If cough persists after ARVI for a long time, you should consult a doctor.
Doctor: what will recommend?
The doctor at the reception can prescribe effervescent tablets “ACC”. This tool stimulates the activity of the respiratory system, so the secret moves more actively along the paths. In some cases, antitussive drugs are shown that inhibit the brain center responsible for reflex. In the composition of medicines, dextromethorphan, codeine, butamirate are found. Such pharmaceutical products are indicated for dry cough.
To dilute sputum, mucolytics can be prescribed. The use of such products improves the secretion process of the glands of the respiratory system. As can be seen in the instructions for the use of Mukaltin tablets, medicinal herbs, which became the basis of such a product, have similar qualities. In addition to plant components, mucolytics are bromhexine, acetylcysteine. Sometimes the doctor is considered the most reasonable to prescribe drugs containing ambroxol. Such drugs are indicated if the cough is wet, but it is not possible to qualitatively cough up the phlegm released inside.
About popular in more detail: "Mukaltin"
This tool is made with the use of rhizomes of Althea. As you can learn from the instructions for use of tablets "Mukaltin", a herbal medicine. Rhizomes of the plant are enriched with special mucus - it accounts for about a third of the product. The preparation contains starch and pectins, betaine, asparagine. This multicomponent product has emollient qualities, envelops mucous membranes, suppresses the activity of inflammatory foci and stimulates expectoration. Plant mucus creates a thin surface layer on human tissues, and is stored here for a long time, protecting areas from irritation.
The use of the drug can reduce inflammation and make tissue restoration more naturally, easier. In addition, the drug affects the gastric mucous membranes, where the protective effect is observed for a sufficiently long time. It is all the more, the more significant the acidity. If you need a strong expectorant effect, it is recommended to combine Mukaltin and sodium bicarbonate.
About popular in more detail: “ACC”
This remedy belongs to the class of mucolytics. Effervescent tablets “ACC” belong to the category of cysteine derivatives. At their expense, the sputum volume becomes larger, a direct effect on the rheological quality of the substance facilitates the removal of secretions from the body. Sulhydryl groups of acetylcysteine break disulfide mucopolysaccharide bonds, due to which mucoproteins lose their polarization, the viscosity of the substance generated by the glands of the respiratory system becomes less. “ACC” tablets are effective even in the case of purulent sputum.
Under shedding the active ingredients of the drug, the generation of sialomucins becomes more pronounced. Processes take place in goblet cells. Bacterial adhesion to epithelial cells is weakened. The drug increases the activity of mucous cells, a derivative of which lyses fibrin. A similar effect is observed relative to the secretion generated by the cells at the foci of inflammation in the ENT organs. An antioxidant effect is observed associated with the activity of sulfhydryl groups: these elements are able to react with radicals, thereby neutralizing them.
Is it worth it to be treated yourself?
Despite the popularity of a number of products and their reliability, you should not choose the right treatment for yourself. Doctors note: many of our compatriots are not inherently serious about coughing. Some believe that when dry, you need to drink an antitussive medicine, when wet, take a mucolytic and do not think about anything else. In fact, as special studies have shown, high-quality air and abundantly consumed fluids are no less effective than drugs, but they do not provoke risks of excessive use or side effects, therefore medications should only be used when safer methods do not help. Be sure to consult a doctor first.