The common cold, as everyone knows, arises from hypothermia. Where it comes from in the cold months is very clear. In the summer? It’s hot outside. Why, then, is subcooling? It turns out that in the summer you can catch a cold as easily as in the winter. Therefore, before answering the question of how to recover quickly, we will try to figure out how not to get sick.
The norm of body temperature for a person is 36.6 ° C. Our body is able to support it without tension, if it is in an environment with a temperature of 27 ° C. At lower values, it enhances the metabolism, begins to reduce the smooth muscles of our blood vessels and skin, in order to somehow warm. But he can’t work in heavy duty for a long time, he gets tired and stops fighting. Then comes hypothermia. In summer, you can get sick from drafts, with prolonged water procedures, for example, in the pool, as well as with severe sweating. Sweating must necessarily change into dry clothes, because sweat helps cool the body.
It often happens that a person receives hypothermia during the day, but cough, runny nose, weakness appears only the next morning. Therefore, it is important to know how to get rid of a cold, before the appearance of its first signs. If it happened that you got wet in the rain, wet your feet in slush, just froze on the street, if you had to sit in a draft or in a very air-conditioned room, you need to take measures at home so as not to get sick. Then you don’t have to look for a way to recover quickly.
Frozen feet immediately upon arrival should be rubbed with any alcohol-containing liquid or turpentine ointment and put on woolen socks. You should also drink hot tea. Its composition can be anything - sage herbs, mint, leaves, twigs and / or berries of raspberries, natural blackcurrant, sea buckthorn, most importantly - that the drink contains honey. Instead of tea, some prefer vodka or hot red wine. They also have a good effect. Tea is preferable in that it can be drunk an unlimited amount, and in that it can be given to pregnant women and children. In the evening you need to take a hot bath, preferably with sea salt or oil of fir, pine, eucalyptus. After this, wiped dry feet can be rubbed once again or a net with iodine can be drawn on the soles and put on socks. You can also rub the chest. Then drink hot tea again and go to bed. It will be better if the bedroom is not too hot. So the body will be easier to bounce back.
If, in spite of all the measures taken, a runny nose, a sore throat, some fatigue in the body and loss of appetite appear in the morning, it means that the cold still got caught in the body. More often this happens with weakened people who have low immunity and no hardening. So both sick and healthy need to eat more vitamins and strengthen their body.
How to quickly recover from a cold that has just begun? If there is no temperature, you need to continue to take hot baths with sea salt or oils. After that, wipe dry, rub your legs, chest, back and go to bed. The bath can be replaced by steaming the legs with mustard. At the end of the procedure they should be red. They wipe them dry, put on their socks and immediately go to bed. This procedure helps with severe cough and runny nose. Drinking a lot of hot liquids (tea, milk, decoctions of herbs, rose hips) with honey is mandatory.
How to recover quickly when coughing? Of course, this phenomenon is very unpleasant and annoying both the patient and others. But coughing has a positive side - with its help mucus and sputum are removed from the bronchi. You need to know that a cough appears not only with problems with the lungs, but also with pharyngitis, laryngitis, beginning tonsillitis - with problems with the throat. Therefore, the same method of treatment is suitable for someone, but not for someone.
If it’s painful to swallow, it’s difficult to talk, a cough is dry and very painful, most likely it’s a sore throat. How to recover quickly in this case? A great way to do this is to rinse with a soda solution, in which several drops of iodine are added. Inhalations with soda and compresses help well. Better to put them at night, but you can also during the day. If the temperature rises sharply with sore throats, you need to consult a doctor who, most likely, will prescribe antibiotics. If the cough is associated only with the bronchi, it can be quickly cured by comprehensively applying compresses on the chest, inhalation, drinking hot tea with honey and expectorant herbs.
There are many ways to treat a runny nose. You can make inhalations with eucalyptus, fir, peppermint oil, or apply a few drops on a napkin and inhale during the day. You can bury the nose with the juice of onions with honey (1: 2) or beets. You can rinse your nose with salt water. You can anoint the “Vietnamese star” near the nose, which is also aromatherapy.
For the prevention of colds, garlic and onions are used. But there are more delicious medicines. So, aloe has a good effect. From a plant you need to cut a leaf at least 3 years old, let it lie in the refrigerator for a couple of days. Then grind in a mixer and mix with honey. There is a teaspoon every morning.
Another effective and tasty way is to grind in a mixer 2 lemons with peels, but without stones. Add half a glass of raisins and a glass of honey. You can add chopped walnuts here. Eat on an empty stomach every morning.
And another tasty and healthy recipe - banana puree. You need to wipe a couple of bananas, dilute the pulp with a glass of hot milk and add honey.