Flu, treatment of influenza

Influenza is one of the most serious diseases among infectious lesions of the bronchopulmonary system, which gives a large number of serious complications. It proceeds with the phenomena of massive general intoxication and upper respiratory tract infection. Most often, the flu takes the nature of epidemics and every few decades - pandemics. The morbidity rises in the cold season. The source of the infection is a sick person.

Symptoms of influenza

The onset of the disease is usually violent: the body temperature rises to 39-40 ° C, which is accompanied by chills, pain in the forehead, temples, superciliary arches, eyeballs, photophobia, weakness, sweating, lethargy, aching muscles and joints. At patients the appetite decreases, the dream worsens, fever often develop delirium and hallucinations. With such a vivid clinical picture, the defeat of the respiratory tract is not very pronounced: dry cough, sensation of throat swelling, hoarseness, nasal congestion accompanied by scanty discharge can occur. In severe cases, nasal bleeding and subcutaneous hemorrhage of the stellate form occur, possible loss of consciousness, convulsions, often on the lips and wings of the nose appear herpetic eruptions.

It should be noted that thus the flu does not occur in all patients and the clinical symptoms in each person manifest themselves in different ways. And therefore, depending on the severity of the signs of infection, distinguish between a mild, moderate, severe and very severe form of the disease.

Everybody is sick with the flu, from babies to old people. In children and the elderly, the disease is more severe than in young and middle-aged people, due to imperfection of their defenses and more frequent complications.

Folk remedies for influenza

• Recipe: 2 egg yolks, 3 tbsp. L. Sahara.
  Yolks to grind with sugar is white.
  When you cough, take an empty stomach 2 times a day. Before each reception to prepare an agent anew.

Treatment with juices

• Recipe: 8 drops of garlic juice, 1 tbsp. L. Milk.
  Mix the milk with garlic juice and heat the product to 45-50 ° C in a water bath.
  Take overnight for 4-5 days.
• Recipe: 0.5 cups of juice of cowberry and honey.
  Juice cranberries carefully mix with honey.
  The mixture should be 1 tbsp. L. 3-4 times a day.
• Recipe: 3 cloves of garlic.
  Toothed garlic cloves, crush thoroughly and pour 0.25 cups of boiling water. Insist for 1-1.5 hours. Strain. Infusion can be stored in the refrigerator for 2 days.
  Bury 2-4 drops of infusion into each nostril 3 times a day.

Honey treatment

• Recipe: 3-4 cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp. L. Honey.
  Peeled garlic cloves grate on a fine grater and mix with honey.
  Take 1 tsp, washing with warm water, 2-3 times a day.

Phytotherapy

• Recipe: 2 tbsp. L. Kidneys of a pine ordinary.
  Kidneys pour 1 liter of boiling water and cook on a water bath for 30-35 minutes. Insist for 30 minutes, then drain.
  Take 0.5 cup 3 times daily after meals.
• Recipe: 1 tbsp. L. Seeds of anise, fruits of fennel, leaves of mallow, 2 tbsp. L. Rhizomes of the primrose.
  2 tsp. Shredded collection pour 1 cup of boiling water, simmer for 5-7 minutes, insist 45 minutes, then drain.
  Decoction to take in a hot form for 0,5 glasses 3 times a day.
• Recipe: 3 tbsp. L. Dry root of the althea.
  Crushed root of althea pour 3 cups of cold boiled water, insist 10-12 hours, then strain.
  Take infusion of 0.25 cup 3 times a day.
• Recipe: for 1 part of the herb, black currant leaves, watch leaves, mother-and-stepmother leaves, St. John's wort, chamomile flowers, dandelion flowers, 2 parts of raspberry shoots, linden flowers, oregano grass, sage leaves, honey to taste.
  20 g shredded collection pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, bring to a boil over low heat, but do not boil. Then insist in a thermos 1-1.5 h, strain. Add to taste honey.
  Take infusion warm or hot for 0.5 cup every 3 hours in the first 2 days of the disease.
• Recipe: 2 tbsp. L. Dry leaves of mother-and-stepmother, 1 tbsp. L. Honey.
  Leaves pour 1 cup of boiling water. After 2-3 minutes, infuse the filter. Add honey.
  Take 1 tbsp. L. Every 2-3 hours 2-3 days.
• The recipe: for 1 part of flowers of a guelder-rose, leaves of a birch, fruits of a raspberry, a grass of oregano, leaves of mother-and-stepmother, honey to taste.
  6 tbsp. L. Collect 2 liters of steep boiling water, put on a slow fire, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Broth to insist in the thermos for 1-1.5 hours, then strain. Add honey.
  Take hot 1 cup every 2 hours for 3-4 days.
• Recipe: 1 part of pine buds, oat straw, eucalyptus leaves, 2 pieces of heather shoots, anise fruit, honey to taste.
  3 tbsp. L. Shredded collection pour in a thermos 1 liter of boiling water. Insist 3-3.5 hours, after which the infusion filter. Add honey.
  Take in hot form for 0.5 cup every 2 hours for 3-4 days.
• Recipe: 1 tsp. Leaves of a blackberry, leaves of a raspberry, leaves of mother-and-stepmother, lime color.
  2 tsp. Collect 1 cup of boiling water. Insist 10 minutes, then drain.
  With the hoarseness of the voice, hot infusion to drink on a small throat every 2-3 hours. With a warm agent, you can gargle 3-4 times a day.
• Recipe: 2 tbsp. L. Lime color, 1 tbsp. L. Flowers mallow, 2 tsp. Inflorescences of chamomile, 1 tsp. Leaves of peppermint, honey to taste.
  1 tbsp. L. Collect 1 cup of boiling water. Insist for 10-15 minutes, then strain.
  Infusion to take in a warm form for 1 glass 3 times a day.
• Recipe: 2 tbsp. L. Herbs of common oregano, raspberry fruit, mother-and-stepmother leaves.
  2 tbsp. L. Collecting pour in a thermos 2 cups of boiling water, insist 40-60 minutes, then drain.
  Infusion take in warm form for 0.5 cup 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.

Traditional means of treating influenza

REMEMBER: it is necessary to treat the flu , as this is a very insidious disease that can not only affect the respiratory system, but also give serious complications to the heart, kidneys, abdominal organs.

Light and medium-sized forms are treated at home. The main principle of therapy: strict bed rest and a plentiful drink to relieve symptoms of intoxication.

• The patient must be isolated from the surrounding in a separate room, and if impossible, separate the bed with a screen. Isolation is carried out before the body temperature decreases and the clinical symptoms of the disease subsided. The room should be ventilated at least 2 times a day and daily wet cleaning. This helps reduce the content of viruses in the air.
  Also, the patient should provide a separate dish, bedding, hygiene products (handkerchiefs, towels). After eating, the dishes must be boiled without fail.
  Those who care for the patient should use gauze dressings to avoid infection.
• Recommended diet , including digestible dishes, abundant warm (not hot!) Drinking, completely excluded from the diet of salty and spicy foods.
• From medicamentous preparations prescribe Remantadin, possessing antiviral activity. With a mild flu, it is taken at 0.05 g 3 times daily for the first 2 days from the onset of the disease. In moderate and severe cases, the drug is prescribed 0.3 g in the first day (the first dose - 0.2 g, the second - 0.1 g) and 0.05 g 3 times a day for the next 2 days. A good therapeutic and preventive effect has a 0.25% oxolin ointment, which should be placed in the nasal passages 2-3 times a day. You can also use leukocyte interferon. The dry substance is dissolved with slightly warm boiled water until the label is put on the ampoule and buried 3 drops in the nose every 3-4 hours for 2-3 days. The drug is also available in the form of ready-made inhalers. If the nasal congestion before ointment or the use of interferon should be dripped vasodilator drug (ephedrine, naphthyzine, sanorin, galazolin). But remember that these drugs are contraindicated with high blood pressure, pronounced atherosclerosis and rapid heart rate (tachycardia).
• Aspirin, paracetamol, analgin, etc. are used from antipyretic and analgesic medications. There are complex medicines combining several active substances in one tablet (for example, antigrippin, which includes aspirin, ascorbic acid, rutin, dimedrol, calcium lactate, phenalgin, Combining analgin, amidopyrine, phenacetin).
• Treatment of patients with severe disease is performed in the hospital, where they are first introduced gamma globulin, used as a protection against the negative influenza virus, complex therapy is carried out, including detoxification (administration of physiological solution, hemo-desa, polyglucin, reopolyglucin in combination with diuretics Drugs to avoid pulmonary edema), antiviral (antigrippin), anti-inflammatory and pro-tivotoxic (prednisolone or hydrocortisone for 1-2 days), as well as symptomatic.
• In the absence of the effect of the therapy after 5-7 days after the onset of the disease, antibacterial therapy is started.
• When developing influenza croup well help hot compresses, inhalation, warm drink. From medications prescribe sedatives and sedatives (under the supervision of a doctor). If these measures are ineffective, resort to extreme measures - tracheotomy (opening the trachea to ensure air intake), continuing treatment.