Watch out! Drugs! As it is impossible to cure the common cold (ODS)

If you caught cold you start to drink gallons of hot milk with a bit of sugar with honey, soar up and have handfuls of aspirin, you should immediately stop. After all, so you do not lechish and maim your body

Influenza - a serious illness: does not pass at least two weeks, accompanied by fever, chills, nausea and muscle aches. Another thing - SARS: runny nose, cough, not too high temperatures - in a word, not a disease but nonsense. Why go to the doctor to take sick leave if you can eat of antiviral drugs and the next day to run to work?

Thinks so and makes most of us. Alas, we are making a serious mistake. At first glance, quite benign disease, if it is run or treated properly, can lead to unpleasant complications such as heat stroke, internal bleeding, and even heart problems.

Warning: drugs!

"All drugs that are sold without a prescription, it is absolutely safe. The more I eat pills and drink a soluble powder, the faster the cure! "With these misconceptions, people who become ill SARS, buy packs of antiviral drugs and take them beyond measure. And forget that any pill, even the most innocuous-looking - is the "chemistry" that can bring not only benefits but also harm.

Askorbinka - the cause of allergies. Vitamin C - the main fighter against viruses that cause colds. This is known to all, some even think that if they eat a loading dose of ascorbic acid, SARS will be as if by magic. As a result, homegrown healers zahlyupav little nose and a couple of times chihnuv, immediately run to the drugstore and buy a dozen bags with soluble or effervescent vitamin C. And forget about the fact that, first, the body never learns more nutrients than it is required. So it's a waste of both time and money. Secondly, against the backdrop of the raging SARS, when all body systems are weakened, an overdose of ascorbic acid can lead to allergies, liver problems and blood.

Tablets are beaten on immunity. Today, the shelves in drugstores literally inundated with all kinds of antiviral drugs. Therefore, at the first sign of a cold for most of us, no question, "what to do." We headlong rush for the medicine known to us and start taking it as instructed. If you do this, do not be surprised that SARS, rather than go through a three-day, tormenting you for a week. Miracle pills really struggling with the virus, but the problem is that these "pests" - thousands! There is no guarantee that the selected random drug aimed at the destruction of pathogens is thy SARS. However, uncontrolled taking antiviral drugs is not only pointless, but a dangerous idea. Do not forget, any tablet - even a little, but still a blow to your liver (which purifies the body from "Chemistry"). Will you hold to the medicine - risk to bring it down.

By the way, immunomodulators (pills and potions to enhance the body's defenses) is not as harmless as it seems. Now everyone is drinking all year round to prevent and treat colds. In these volumes of drugs are dangerous: they can "break" the human immune system. Doctors say that in recent years, the number of autoimmune diseases (in which the body produces the body, destroying healthy tissue) increased significantly. And this is partly to blame for immunomodulators.

Antibiotics do not work. You've got a date tomorrow, an important conversation with your boss, the plane to the Maldives (underline), and suddenly a cold gust threatens to put an end to your plans. It is not surprising that you decided to take an extreme measure - antibiotics. Not the most useful, but surely killing the tablet quickly put you on your feet! This is a terrible mistake. Antibiotics directed against the bacteria, they treat a sore throat, pneumonia, sinusitis, but not SARS, it's a viral disease. You can even eat a ton of pills, but your cold will not go anywhere. In this case an antibiotic will act as a tractor, indiscriminately killing all the beneficial bacteria living in your body. But it is fraught with dysbiosis.

Deciding to undergo treatment antibiotic, think about the fact that bacteria, like cockroaches, are very tenacious of life: they are gradually getting used to the poison, mutate, mutate, and eventually cease to react to it. Therefore, it is not necessary once again to feed your body with killer pills. Otherwise, when you really need treatment with antibiotics, they already will not work.

Not to shoot down the temperature of aspirin. Another common error associated with the treatment of SARS - manic desire to bring down the temperature. Of course, the heat - not the most pleasant thing that happened to you in life, however, until the column of the thermometer is not exceeded the mark of 38,5 º C, should be tolerated. Covered in sweat forehead - a sign that the body has mobilized its defenses, and by all means tries to destroy the virus, which killed it at high temperature. By reducing it, you'll feel better temporarily, but actually extends the course of the disease, as aspiring to "infection" will continue to live in your body.

If the temperature is still too high (39 ° C or more) you need to knock down, but in any case is not aspirin. Remember once and for all the world, doctors prescribe aspirin to thin the blood, and in Russia it is taken as an antipyretic. Apparently, this habit has remained with us since the Soviet era, when the pharmacies could not find anything except the green stuff, and aspirin. The latter, by the way, if you overdo it with the dose, can cause internal bleeding.

The powders cause vomiting. Soluble powders with a taste of raspberry, apple, honey and lemon - that is, a panacea for SARS! He drank three bags - and feel great. You can return to their usual business: go to work, run to the shops and meet with her friends at the cafe. Bear in mind, a sense of complete recovery is deceptive. These funds only relieve symptoms: paracetamol, included in their composition, the temperature decreases, phenylephrine eliminates nasal congestion, and pheniramine - pain and aching joints.

However, the virus does not affect powders. They are good for emergencies when you need a couple of hours to recover and be in the form of, for example, if you urgently summoned the head, it is necessary to meet the mother of a train or take the child out of kindergarten. But they can not be treated. First, eliminating the symptoms, these drugs deprive the body of the opportunity to fight the virus on its own. Secondly, drink in the bag more - and you can get a bunch of nasty side effects: allergic reaction, nausea, abdominal pain, dizziness, increased pressure and urinary retention.

Drops of dried mucous. Stuffy nose is perhaps the most troublesome symptom of SARS. No one wants to toss and turn without sleeping, unable to breathe, to catch for breath, and Snuffles, so colds people abused in full vasoconstrictor drops. And for good reason. Runny nose, as well as temperature - a protective reaction: with nasty mucus flowing from the nose, the body free from viruses. A drop of this process is stopped. However, this is not the only danger. There is a high risk of addiction to such drugs. If this happens suddenly, you have every chance to get a chronic runny nose. And the abuse is fraught with decongestants atrophy of the nasal mucosa. Drops desiccate it, and thereby reduce the protective functions. Osobodivshis from tormenting you in the moment of infection, you're right there to pick up some new virus: they are known to be transmitted by airborne droplets. If you do not want to hurt all year, do not get carried away by drops.

Do not listen to grandma

You are deeply mistaken if you think that herbal inhalation, mustard, tea with honey and other popular treatments for SARS, unlike pills are completely safe, because in them one vegetable ingredients and not an ounce of "chemistry." Grandma's recipes, too, can worsen the disease.

Do not drink alcohol. Do not listen to her lover, exhorts you to "My dear, a glass of vodka with pepper or a glass of hot mulled wine - the best remedy for a cold!" Of course, some people a small amount of alcohol helps to cope with the disease. After all, alcohol has disinfectant, antiseptic effect. But that does not mean that the medicine degree from the fit, and you. Not only that weaken the immune system strong drinks, alcohol is also not the best effect on sore throat: he is irritating and, therefore, after a coughing fit your glasses of vodka is guaranteed!

But if you are not at hand will be antipyretic, you can dilute the vodka mixed with water and wipe the body with this solution. After the procedure, expand blood vessels and increase blood flow - increase heat transfer. And then you sobesh temperature.

Forget the milk. Three cups of hot milk with honey and four cups of tea with raspberry jam - the body was covered with perspiration, heaviness in the stomach, but you're happy, like a boa constrictor: "Tomorrow I will be fine! Drink plenty of water helps to cope with the disease because the body of poisonous toxins leave the body through sweat and urine! "You'd hardly began to torture yourself like this, if I knew that burning more drinks hurt a sore throat.

Drinking should be warm but not hot. In addition, many people lack the enzyme in the body responsible for the processing of milk. If you think about it, do not hesitate, as a bonus to the SARS get indigestion and diarrhea. As for the honey and jam, they are not as good as it sounds. A large number of triggers sudden sweet release of insulin in the blood, which is inevitably follows, as doctors say, a failure. It is characterized by drowsiness and loss of strength. But these symptoms are raging against the disease would only worsen the state of health.

In order to recover as quickly as possible, you need to drink plenty of warm aerated water. Average amount of fluid needed daily for a healthy person, calculated on the basis of body weight - 30 ml per kilogram. It turns out that a woman weighing 70 kg requires 2 liters a day. If she is unwell, you should add another 500 ml.

No sweat. Some ailing comrades think that monstrously hot sweet drinks are not enough. In order to heal at a phenomenal rate, they are quite radical: having drunk scalding milk, immediately put on wool socks, sweaters and wrapped in blankets. Fans covered with perspiration governed by the rule: the more sweat, the sooner you get up on their feet. On the one hand, this assumption is correct, but on the other hand - wrapped in a "cocoon" of heat transfer processes are being violated. And it contributes to a sharp deterioration in health, until he lost consciousness! Therefore, you should not dress like the North Pole. When the temperature of the body must do everything to ensure that the organism was able to lose heat: Clothing should be loose and easy.

And as often as possible should ventilate the room to clear it from their "own" viruses. The optimum temperature in the room - 20-22 ° C.

Treatment according to the rules

Stay at home for three days. Fully recover from SARS you will not before next week. If you can not afford to spend all this time at home in bed, at least try not to go out the first three days. This period is considered the peak of the disease, especially when the body is weak, because all of his strength goes to fight the virus.

Will be worn on the streets - run the risk of complications to make a bouquet. Shoot down the temperature of paracetamol. Reduce the heat too much you can with paracetamol or preparations based on it. Unlike aspirin, it does not dilute the blood.

Call the doctor. Only a doctor can determine exactly which virus caused your disease and find the right agent, who quickly put on his feet. Without a prescription can be taken only liquid interferon pre-diluted in water. For the rest of the body it is safer antiviral agents.

Make inhalation. At the 3-5th day after the onset of the disease proceed to a steam inhalation to ease coughing and expectoration of sputum. Series of Eucalyptus and soda: the first is well loosen mucus, the latter - soften the throat, writes Newsland.

Drip into his nose. Eliminate nasal drops to help you in an oil base, which, unlike the others do not dry mucous membranes. Ideal - alternate between these drugs with a completely safe and non-addictive salt solutions.

Eat foods with vitamins. Take vitamin C, not exceeding a daily dose - 60-70 mg. By the way, is not useful to get askorbinku of the tablets, and of products: fresh juices, diluted with water (1 cup per day), sauerkraut (400 g), pepper (1 large fruit).