At the first signs of the common cold, when there are no abundant secretions, take a hot bath, immediately after the bath, put mustard plasters on the heels for 1-2 hours or put a pepper bandage on the feet, which can be worn for a day or two. Drink tea with honey from rose hips, raspberry, lime-colored. After this, make a gruel of garlic and sniff it alternately, closing one or the other nostril. Exhalation is done through a wide mouth. But if a runny nose still intensified, so that from home without five or six handkerchiefs in your pocket and do not get out, begin to be treated. Preliminarily learn a few simple rules.
1. Before blowing the medicine in your nose, be sure to blow your nose.
2. To avoid getting used to it, do not use vasoconstrictive drops for more than 5-7 days. Galazolin, naphthysine, sanorin - they all develop dependence. Use better otrivinom - he is not in this group, or even better - plant remedies.
3. Apply phytotherapy: 3-4 times a day, bury the beet or cabbage juice, aloe juice. A powerful therapeutic effect is the vegetable oil, which is infused with garlic: a crushed garlic clove 8-10 hours insist in 1 tbsp. a spoon of oil, then squeezes through gauze into a bubble from under the drops.
4. Twice a day, rinse your nose with warm water (36-37 ° C), mineral water without gas or a solution of table salt (1 tsp 0,5 l). For rinsing, use a syringe or syringe with a thin polyethylene tubing on it. During the procedure, keep your head straight, otherwise, the solution will fall into your ear along the Eustachian tube.
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cold[/caption]5. For the night, place an additional pillow under your head: in this position, mucus leaves more easily, the flow of blood to the nasal cavity decreases and the mucous does not swell.
6. Drink the chicken broth. It contains an amino acid cysteine, which reduces mucus secretions and swelling of the mucous membrane.