You feel the first signs of a cold, and tomorrow you have an important meeting that cannot be missed.. What are the shock ways to deal with the disease? What is a cold?

A cold is a disease that occurs when the body is cooled.. For example, if you got your feet wet in the September puddles, froze while standing at a bus stop, when it got colder outside, or drank a cold drink, and as a result you got sick.

A cold develops with weak local immunity, so the body needs to be tempered. With weak local immunity, foci of chronic infection are formed in the nasopharynx, and the most frequent consequences of hypothermia are exacerbations, such as tonsillitis, rhinitis, sinusitis, bronchitis.

If you do not have foci of chronic infections, but simply overcooled, then symptoms such as sore throat, cough, sneezing, runny nose, headache, weakness, chills, fever.

The cold will go away on its own, but proven folk methods work to eliminate individual symptoms and to calm yourself. So, what to do at the first symptoms of a cold.

Alla Protasova General practitioner:.

" The body signals an impending illness. Drink 2 g of vitamin C, this is a loading dose for colds. Drink 2 g more after 12 hours so you can stop a cold. If you want to be healthy and go to work, then this is the easiest preventive measure.. Do not wait for the symptoms of the disease to play out in full, drink vitamin C. Then you can take 1 tablet once a day..

SORE THROAT For a sore throat, the most effective remedy is gargling, gargle every hour or at least 3 times a day.

Gargle with a solution:.

a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of warm boiled water,.

you can add a couple of drops of iodine if you do not have allergic reactions.

During the period of illness, you must definitely give up smoking..

NASMIC (RHINITIS) Better to use nasal sprays with salt water.

Or rinse your nose with a solution:.

1 teaspoon of sea salt in half a liter of warm boiled water (make sure the salt is unflavored). Flush your nose with a syringe.

If the nose is blocked, vasodilators and antibiotics are very effective.. Inhalation with eucalyptus essential oil also helps. Inhalation can be inhaled from any container (not boiling), do not forget to cover your head with a towel.

COUGH The most effective folk remedy for cough is a glass of warm milk with the addition of a teaspoon of butter and a teaspoon of honey. Another way to fight cough is mustard plasters.. Put a mustard plaster overnight, and you will sleep well, so that the mustard plasters do not burn and bake too much, put a thin towel on your body. If you are already doing inhalation, then they are also very effective for coughing, it is especially effective to breathe over boiled potatoes..

WEAKNESS AND AWEENING It is quite difficult to get rid of weakness and chills, but vitamin C will help alleviate the condition. Buy vitamin C from the pharmacy in the form of tablets, or in the form of a liquid in an ampoule (you can just drink the contents). You can replenish the reserves of vitamin C in the body with the help of fruits, eat as many citrus fruits, apples, cranberries as possible.

HEAT AND HEADACHES For fever and headaches, use aspirin and paracetamol as needed. Drink plenty of warm liquid, preferably lemon or raspberry tea. After sleeping and sweating profusely, the ailment is likely to go away..

If you get your feet wet, the first thing to do when you come home is to take a warming foot bath and wear warm socks.. You can stick pepper plaster on your feet, hold as long as you can endure.

As a prophylaxis for weakening immunity, take multivitamins, especially in autumn and spring, when immunity is weakened..

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