What my grandmother and mother advised us in childhood is not always helpful for treatment.

Do you remember what your grandmother and mother advised in your childhood when you started coughing, sneezing, you saw a temperature above 37 on the thermometer? Hot milk with honey, tea with lemon and sugar - and drink sooner, until it gets cold, otherwise it will not be good! And you drank. Burnt. You were thrown into the sweat. A short while helped. But after a while you started coughing even harder, feeling even worse.

First of all, never drink scalding beverages. They only irritate the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, but in no way help to recover better. To drink it is necessary, abundant drink actively removes toxic substances that are formed in the course of vital activity of bacteria and viruses. The recommended daily volume is up to three liters of liquid: it can be just warm water, a decoction of herbs, a slightly cooled broth.

Secondly, remember: tea or milk, in which you dissolve honey, destroy its medicinal properties. Wash honey with a hot drink is also pointless - both in terms of benefits, and in terms of the taste of the product.

Third, forget about lemons and other citrus fruits for the time of illness - they contain a healthy vitamin C in a huge amount, but this vitamin is only digested by a healthy body. Acid, which is also plenty of citrus fruits, are the breeding ground for viruses, as well as the sugar coating of sweet tea, settling in the mouth and throat - we need it?.

The therapeutic effect of previously recognized useful remedies, such as milk or raspberries, is also in doubt. Plus milk is its diuretic action, in its warm form it can reduce the sensation of perspiration in the throat and replenish the lack of potassium. Too fat milk gives us unnecessary calories and a nutrient medium for bacteria, and does not destroy them. As for raspberries, it is better not to use berries, but the leaves of this shrub, adding them to the decoction of herbs or brewing separately. Drink warm!.

Paradox, but melted ice cream with angina, as studies show, can have a curative effect, tempering the tonsils. But everything is good in moderation: checking the effectiveness of this method, do not eat ice cream with hard ice pieces in large quantities and at high temperature.

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