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A cold is an acute viral infection that can be cured if ARVI occurs in mild form, on average in 5 – 7 days. Home remedies can quickly cure a cold, but provided that treatment is started on the first day of illness, as soon as its symptoms appear.

It is not necessary to run to the pharmacy at the first manifestation of a cold. Moreover, sometimes, due to feeling unwell, I don’t have enough strength to even leave the house.

However, it is quite possible to quickly recover from a cold at home, both with the use of tablets and with the help of exclusively folk remedies.

You can speed up your recovery if:

to sleep a lot;
drink more warm medicinal drinks;
quickly eliminate inflammation - cope with a runny nose, sore throat, cough;
ensure the presence in the diet of:
- vitamins – C, B12, folic acid;
- animal protein;
- chicken broth;
humidify the air in the room to 55-65%.

You should treat yourself only after you have been convinced that the cough, runny nose and other signs of ill health are caused by a cold and not provoked by the flu, pneumonia or bacterial sore throat.

It is necessary to visit a doctor when you experience:

Sore throat without cough, runny nose with high fever - possibly with sore throat
Fever > 39 °C with dry cough, chest pain - occurs with influenza and pneumonia.

If your body temperature remains at 38–39 °C for more than 3 days, you should definitely consult a doctor. It is very difficult to quickly cure a cold with a high fever without medical help, and wasting time on self-medication increases the risk of dangerous complications.

How to treat a cold without fever

Colds subside quickly self-treatment at home, if it is started in the very first days of the illness, when the first signs of illness have just appeared, and the temperature< 37 °C.

Symptoms of an incipient cold include:

apathy;
feeling unwell;
itching in the nose, sneezing;
watery nasal discharge;
sore throat;
feeling of sand in the eyes.

Colds are often caused by hypothermia. In this case, it is necessary to warm the feet and hands well, for which you can use warm baths with the addition of mustard.

For one procedure, 1-2 tbsp is enough. spoons of dry mustard into a bowl of warm water with a capacity of 3 - 5 liters. Keeping your feet in warm water with mustard for 15 minutes is enough. After which they wipe their feet, put on warm socks and go to bed.

You can cure a cold in an adult in a steam room, the main thing is to steam yourself properly at home, then the cold will quickly recede, literally in one day.

In the absence of fever, an effective home remedy is a bath with medicinal herbs. In the steam room you can use:

pharmaceutical essential oils - eucalyptus, cedar, fir, juniper;
decoctions medicinal plants– linden flowers, chamomile, sage, currant leaves, raspberries, birch.

On initial stage colds, deep inhalation of the respiratory tract, obtained in a steam room, softens mucus, improves its elimination and is a quick and reliable method of treatment.

The temperature in the steam room should not cause discomfort. It is not overheated air that is beneficial, but warm and moist air. And you should definitely put a felt cap on your head to protect it from overheating.

A bathhouse will not hurt not only for a cold, but also for such a serious respiratory disease as bronchitis. Read how a bath can help with bronchitis on the page.

Warming baths

If it is not possible to steam in a Russian bath, then it can be replaced with initial stage colds, a warming and relaxing bath with decoctions of medicinal plants.

The following warming bath additives will help you recover quickly and get rid of a cold in a few days:

decoctions pine needles, fir;
infusions of sage, linden, chamomile, St. John's wort.

There are even special recipes for emergency recovery, the purpose of which is to cure a cold as quickly as possible.

Here is a recipe for a remedy that, in case of a cold at home, will get the patient back on his feet in one day. For the bath you need:

Grind 100 g of ginger, brew 0.25 mg of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes;
Chop 2 heads of garlic and place in gauze pad, tie tightly.

When everything is ready, fill the bath hot water, dip gauze with garlic into it and pour in ginger infusion. Then wait until the temperature in the bath drops to a comfortably warm temperature.

To warm up well and heal, take a bath for 15 minutes, then drink warm milk or chamomile tea. After warming up, you need to get a good night's sleep, then the next day there will be no trace of the cold left.

When visiting a steam room or treating with other warming procedures, be sure to take into account contraindications. The group of diseases for which visiting a bathhouse is contraindicated includes:

hearts;
hypertension;
diabetes;

Sick bronchial asthma Moderate moist heat is not contraindicated, but caution should be exercised when using medicinal plants and essential oils.

An effective replacement for a Russian bath can be warm-moist inhalations, the behavior of which is described in the section.

Thermal treatments

At respiratory infections, occurring without an increase in temperature, are useful:

rubbing the back, chest, feet with alcohol or vodka;
mustard plasters, alcohol compresses on the chest and back;
mustard plasters on calves or feet;
warming the nose with heated salt, boiled egg, boiled potatoes;
for ear pain - warming with a blue lamp.

How to treat a cold with high fever

At elevated temperatures, it is useful to drink decoctions of medicinal plants, do rubbing, warm foot baths. Must be followed bed rest, this will help to quickly cure a cold even with a high fever and severe symptoms runny nose, cough.

If the temperature< 38 °C, то можно лечить от простуды в домашних условиях medicines, quickly reducing fever, such as:

tea with forest raspberries;
decoction of berries, elderberry flowers;
infusion of viburnum with honey;
decoction of burdock roots, chicory;
red currant juice, blackberry with honey.

If the temperature is > 38 °C, and folk remedies do not help, you should not test your body’s strength. You should take an antipyretic drug - Aspirin, Paracetamol, Nurofen.

Do not allow the temperature to rise to 38.5°C and above. It is much more useful to quickly take an antipyretic medicine than to try to cure a cold in an adult, relying solely on the barrier properties of the immune system.

For a runny nose, wash the nose with saline solutions Aquamaris, Aqualor, Dolphin, Humer. For severe nasal congestion, you can instill it at night. vasoconstrictors- Nazivin, Otrivin.

But you cannot use vasoconstrictor nasal drops for more than 5 days. IN otherwise It will not be possible to quickly recover from both a runny nose and nasal congestion due to a cold, and inflammation can spread to the maxillary sinuses.

For coughs and colds in adults, the following will help:

decoctions, syrups with expectorant plants - licorice, marshmallow, elecampane, anise;
medications that improve sputum discharge, containing bromhexine, ambroxol, carbocisteine.

Medicinal plants with anti-inflammatory properties and home remedies are used for gargling. The most effective rinses:

3% peroxide solution – 2 tsp. for 50 ml of water;
soda or soda + saline solution;
furatsilin;
chlorhexidine.

How to eat when you have a cold

When you have a cold, pay close attention to nutrition. A person with a cold should not starve.

Of course, you should not force feed if you have no appetite. But it must be remembered that the immune system requires amino acids, minerals, vitamins C, B6, B9, B12 to produce immunoglobulins, activate leukocytes, and complement.

The diet must include light, lean poultry or fish. Separately, we can say about chicken broth, which is not without reason called a homemade antibiotic.

Chicken bouillon:

thins mucus;
softens cough;
lowers temperature;
has an anti-inflammatory effect.

And if in chicken bouillon add a little black pepper, parsley, dill, it will have an antiseptic effect and supply vitamins.

The body needs a supply of complete animal protein containing everything essential amino acids that a person receives exclusively from food. Their consumption in the body is very high, but reserves are limited.

A diet enriched with vitamins will help cure a cold quickly. The most vitamin C needed to treat colds is found in:

citrus;
kiwi;
pears;
apples;
sauerkraut;
black currant;
carrot;
beet.

Recommended for colds daily use garlic You don't have to eat a lot of garlic. The antimicrobial substance allicin, the precursor of which alliin is found in garlic, is effective even in small quantities.

What to drink when you have a cold

Useful for colds warm drink. This may be weak tea with raspberry jam or pureed black currants, dried fruit compote, jelly, fruit drink, milk with honey or a pinch of soda.

Helpful antimicrobial agent for viral infections is ginger. It can be:

Boil 1 tablespoon. ginger + a few cumin seeds in a glass of water for 15 minutes, leave for 10 minutes;
1 tsp. l. grate, brew 1 tbsp. boiling water, leave for 15 minutes.

A good remedy for colds can be prepared by adding a little propolis infusion with water to a glass of milk. The medicine is taken at night.

Milk with the addition of soda will help cure OVRI. Some recipes recommend adding 1 tsp to a glass of warm milk. soda

This drink does not taste very pleasant, and the child can be offered milk with soda taken on the tip of a knife. Therapeutic effect there will be, but there will be no tears and crying.

The total daily volume of liquid you drink during a cold should be about 2.5 liters. It includes soups, tea, and pure water, medicinal infusions or coffee.

The drink must be warm. Hot or cold drinks irritate the throat. Cold drinking constricts the vessels of the mucous membrane, slows blood circulation, and reduces the activity of local immunity.

Hot drinks burn and irritate pain receptors, increase sore throat.

Contraindications and errors in the treatment of colds

You should not take antibiotics to treat a cold, since most often the illness is caused by viruses. Antibacterial drugs against respiratory viruses are useless in most cases.

Don't drink at your own discretion antiviral drugs. The properties of antiviral protection are poorly understood. Researching new medications on your own body with a cold without a doctor’s prescription is dangerous.

Alcohol intake

TO important rules Get well soon may include a ban on drinking alcohol. You should not make exceptions when treating a cold at home, even for small doses of alcohol, since alcohol reduces the reactivity of the immune system, which impedes recovery.

Ethanol reduces the production of inflammatory cytokines factors necessary for the development of inflammatory process, which normally should develop in response to infection.

Ethyl alcohol reduces the activity of alveolar macrophages - cells immune system responsible for local immunity pulmonary alveoli. But the pulmonary alveoli are the first line of defense of the respiratory tract in anti-infective protection.

What you cannot do quickly with a cold is to recover from the infection, but it is easy to “catch” another respiratory virus, since alcohol has a negative effect on the ciliated epithelium of the bronchi.

This occurs as a result of a decrease in secretion production by the mucous cells of the ciliated epithelium and a decrease in saliva production. These properties explain dry mouth after drinking alcohol.

In large doses, alcohol kills the liver. Because of this, vital chemical compounds do not enter the blood in the required quantities.

The benefits of drinking alcohol when you have a cold include: deep sleep after consuming, for example, such a popular home remedy like vodka with pepper. However, this folk remedy can easily be replaced with soothing tea with chamomile, motherwort or valerian.

Thermal treatments

When carrying out procedures in a Russian bath, you should try to avoid dehydration. The body loses especially a lot of fluid in the steam room. You can check how dehydrated your body is by looking at the color of your urine.

If it is transparent, straw-yellow in color, then there is enough water in the tissues. When the color of urine turns bright yellow, you should take care of replenishing fluid in the body

High body temperature is a contraindication for any thermal procedures. If you have a fever above 38 °C, you should not take warm baths, warm your chest or feet with mustard plasters, do foot baths or warm-moist inhalations.

About how to properly treat a cold with mustard plasters, medical banks, inhalations, read in the section.

Colds occur suddenly and at any time of the year. A person can eat an ice cream cone, drink an iced cocktail, or get caught in a cold rain, and wake up the next morning with a headache, a stuffy nose, and a sore throat. Elevated temperature and runny nose are treated with decoctions and rinsing solutions. And the immune system is strengthened with vitamin dishes and drinks. A cold should not be neglected, because a simple and harmless disease leads to serious complications.

Rest, fresh air and disinfection

A runny nose and sore throat are a reason to take sick leave. The body, forced to fight viruses, is contraindicated in additional loads. On a bus or in an office, a person can catch an infection or sit in a draft, which will lead to a deterioration in health and increased inflammation. And the patient himself during a cold becomes a source of bacteria and viruses.

The immune system will cope with a runny nose and cough faster if the patient stays at home and spends several days under a blanket or blanket. At temperatures from 36.6 to 37.2, light morning exercises are allowed. A simple warm-up activates blood circulation and sweating. But after doing the exercises you should not take cold and hot shower, go outside or open a window. It's better to crawl under the covers and get some sleep. During rest, the body recovers, produces more energy and leukocytes to fight viruses.

The room in which the patient is constantly located is ventilated twice a day. In the warm season, windows are opened for 1–1.5 hours, in winter – for 10–20 minutes. A person leaves the bedroom or living room for the kitchen or another warm room. Returns after closing the windows. You should not sit or sleep in a draft to avoid complications.

Ventilation is sometimes supplemented quartz lamps. The room is irradiated with ultraviolet light to reduce the concentration of viruses in the air. In this case, the windows are opened after disinfection. The room will be filled with oxygen, and the excess ozone formed due to the lamp will evaporate.

A patient with cold symptoms is advised to take warm baths twice a day, wash their hands and wash their face regularly to prevent bacteria from accumulating on the skin. During illness, bed linen is changed as often as possible, and pillows and blankets are aired on the balcony.

Ginger tea and berry fruit drinks

The body cleanses itself of toxins and viruses when it sweats. The temperature drops, inflammation decreases and well-being improves. Warm temperatures can trigger the sweating process herbal infusions. When you have a cold, it is recommended to brew:

Dill seeds;
sage;
marshmallow root;
coltsfoot;
Birch buds;
chamomile inflorescences;
burdock root;
St. John's wort.

Anti-inflammatory tea is prepared from 30 g of the plant and a cup cold water. It is better to heat the broth in a water bath, but do not bring it to a boil. Remove when the drink turns brownish or yellowish tint. Infuse in a thermos or container wrapped in a terry towel. Drink with sugar, raspberry jam or honey.

Cranberry juice removes heat:

Frozen berries are poured into an enamel plate or pan and mashed with a fork.
Pour the cranberry puree into a gauze bag and separate the juice from the crushed fruit.
The cake is returned to the pan and filled with water.
Bring the mixture to a boil, cool to 60 degrees and pour in the juice.

Medicinal fruit drinks are seasoned with honey, and less often with sugar. In a similar way, vitamin drinks are prepared from blackberries, lingonberries and viburnum. Berry infusions are mixed with freshly squeezed citrus juices to increase the concentration of vitamin C. The body converts ascorbic acid into substances that strengthen the immune system and destroy the source of the inflammatory process.

Viburnum, cranberries and lingonberries are scalded with boiling water and then ground in a blender along with a few tablespoons of heated honey. Eat 5-6 tablespoons of fresh jam per day. Add 30–40 g of sea buckthorn, ground with sugar, to herbal decoctions.

Important: Honey should not be heated above 60 degrees, and berries should not be boiled for longer than 5 minutes. The products contain vitamins that, over long periods of time, heat treatment are destroyed and turn into carcinogens.

Ginger root speeds up metabolic processes and warms the body from the inside. By increasing blood circulation, the spice helps the immune system fight viruses that cause a cold. Fresh ginger is added to porridges and first courses, and is also used to prepare an anti-inflammatory agent:

A piece of root 5–6 cm long is cut into thin slices. The peel is removed before chopping.
Pour the ginger into a teapot or pan and add 2 liters of water.
The drink is brought to a boil, seasoned with 20 g of cardamom and 3 star anise. Sometimes a pinch of cinnamon is added to the broth.
The ginger medicine is removed from the stove 10 minutes after boiling. Leave for 40 minutes and filter.
Pour juice from 1 small lemon into a warm drink or simply add thin citrus slices.

Ginger tea is stored in a thermos. Add a little honey, which has antiseptic properties, and 10-15 drops of echinacea to each cup of drink. Alcohol tincture strengthens the immune system, and ginger stimulates the removal of toxins from the body.

A sore throat and runny nose can be relieved with milk decoction. Finely cut into pieces ginger root weighing 25–30 g and poured into an enamel bowl. Pour in two cups of milk and send the mixture to water bath. When the drink becomes hot, add 2-3 pinches of black or allspice to it. Boil for 10–15 minutes, strain and cool to 45–50 degrees. A spoonful of honey is dissolved in a warm milk-ginger decoction.

After taking this medicine, a slight burning sensation occurs inside. This means the components are working. The drink is contraindicated when peptic ulcers, gastritis and liver problems. IN milk decoction add freshly squeezed honey along with Orange juice, which enriches the body with vitamin C.

At wet cough the citrus component is replaced with two pinches of turmeric. The spice stimulates the release of mucus and helps with bronchitis, pharyngitis and sore throat.

Pastes to strengthen the immune system

Patients with colds are advised to avoid fatty foods. Beef and pork broths, cutlets, sausage and semi-finished products are contraindicated. A weakened body does not need fats and extra calories. Meat soups are replaced with vegetables and fruits, as well as fermented milk drinks. Ryazhenka, kefir and natural yogurt restore intestinal microflora, increasing immunity.

Some patients practice one-day fasting, but this method of treatment raises doubts among doctors. The body fighting an infection should not be overloaded with food, but it is not worth giving up food completely.

Apples, oranges, peppers, cabbage, sea fish and spinach are sources of vitamins responsible for the production of leukocytes. It is these cells that destroy viruses and treat inflammation. Vegetable and fruit salads are complemented with light and nutritious pastes that improve immunity.

The first, lemon, is prepared from 1 large citrus. The yellow workpiece is dipped in hot water for 2-3 minutes to soften slightly. The fruit, cut into large pieces, is passed through a meat grinder, and then added to the sour mass 100 g butter. Milk product soften in a water bath. The workpiece is seasoned with 4–5 tbsp. l. honey Pour into a jar with a tight lid and put it in the refrigerator. Bran bread sandwiches are prepared daily with lemon paste.

Salty vitamin snack consists of 100 g of solid or processed cheese and the same amount of butter. The products are crushed, mixed and simmered in a water bath for 5–10 minutes so that they melt and turn into a homogeneous mass. The preparation is seasoned with a paste of 4 garlic cloves and 10 walnut or pine nut kernels. A bunch of finely chopped parsley and green onions are added to the pasta, which has cooled to 60 degrees. Store the snack in a glass jar for 3-4 days.

Garlic cheese paste contains vitamin C, phytoncides and amino acids, which invigorate, relieve inflammation, runny nose and cough. There is no medicine left after unpleasant odor. Parsley neutralizes it.

Rinse and bath solutions

If you have a cold, your feet should be warm. If the body temperature does not rise above 37.2, it is allowed mustard baths. They warm and increase blood circulation. 2–3 liters are poured into the basin hot water. No boiling water, your feet should be comfortable. 50 g dissolved in liquid mustard powder. The feet are lowered into the prepared bath and kept for 20 minutes, periodically adding hot water. Immediately after the procedure, woolen or thick terry socks are put on your feet. The patient is advised to lie down for 30–40 minutes and not run with steamed feet on the cold floor. Heels can be smeared with “Star”. The product warms and disinfects, removes cold symptoms in 3-4 days.

Many viruses and bacteria accumulate in the nasal passages and larynx. They cause a runny nose, inflammation of the mucous membranes and soreness. The infection is washed out with a solution that includes:

boiled water – 300 ml;
regular or sea salt– 25 g;
baking soda – 15 g;
regular or blue iodine – 3–4 drops.

Instead of saline solution, herbal infusions are used: chamomile, eucalyptus, sage or coltsfoot. After rinsing, the nasal passages and throat are lubricated sea buckthorn oil, beet juice, radish with honey or aloe.

For sore throat and runny nose, garlic and onion inhalations are performed. Vegetables are cut and poured cold water and leave covered for 5-10 minutes. Then open and inhale the released essential oils through the nose and mouth.

The maxillary sinuses are heated with boiled eggs or fabric bags filled with hot buckwheat. Applied to the throat cabbage leaf, soaked in honey, or a piece of gauze soaked in an aqueous-alcohol solution.

After rinsing, drops into the nose Kalanchoe juice. The wings and bridge of the nose are rubbed with “Star”, oxolinic ointment or "Doctor Mom".

Additional Recipes

For a sore throat, sneezing and the first signs of a runny nose, drink a glass of vodka or cognac. A pinch of red or black pepper is added to alcohol for a warming effect. After drinking alcohol, a person goes to bed, and wakes up in the morning cheerful and healthy. The method is contraindicated for ulcers, heart problems and blood pressure.
An aromatic lamp is placed in the patient’s room, to which is added essential oil. Use bergamot, rosemary, eucalyptus or mint. Oil will do tea tree or cedar. The essential component is applied to a hot battery if there is no lamp. The additive disinfects the air in the room and the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract.
Removes cold symptoms steam inhalation. A decoction for it is prepared from linden and chamomile flowers, mint sprigs, sage and eucalyptus leaves. Pour 40–50 g of the plant mixture into a kettle of hot water. The boiling broth is removed, the container is covered with a paper cone and the steam is inhaled for 5 to 10 minutes.
Sore throat and cough are relieved with cocoa butter. Into a glass warm milk add 1 tsp. grated product. The drink is consumed before bedtime. The oil is also absorbed after meals to soften the mucous membrane of the throat and relieve discomfort.
Compresses made from mustard powder and honey speed up recovery. The components are combined and kneaded into an elastic dough. Sometimes added to the mass as a thickener potato starch or flour from oatmeal. The workpiece is divided into 2–3 parts, cakes are formed and applied to chest. Do not involve the heart area. Remove after 1–1.5 hours.
The immune system is strengthened with a decoction of rose hips and vegetable salads with garlic and olive oil.
Take 1 tbsp three times a day. l. onion milk. It contains many phytoncides and anti-inflammatory components. Prepare the medicine from 3 finely chopped onions and a glass of hot milk. The components are combined and infused for 2 hours.

A cold is one of the warning signs of a weakened immune system. After recovery, a person is recommended to improve his health: eat a lot of citrus fruits and honey, exercise and take a contrast shower. And also do not smoke or abuse alcohol, which weakens protective forces body.

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If a cold is just starting, you notice its first symptoms, then read the article:

The following folk remedies will help you get back on your feet faster when you have a cold. Based on materials from the newspaper “Vestnik “ZOZH”.

How to quickly cure a cold at home - grandma’s method:

First, steam your child’s legs in plain hot water or with the addition of mustard.
Boil potato peelings with the addition of a few whole potatoes for better heat retention. Drain the water from the boiled potatoes and sprinkle a handful of baking soda evenly over the peelings. Place the child over this saucepan, covering his head with a blanket.
If the child is small, it is also advisable for the mother to crawl under the blanket. Slowly open the lid slightly to release steam. Healing vapors easily reach the throat, warming the nasopharynx.
After the procedure, put the child to bed, putting a hat or scarf on him.
After some time, change the child into dry underwear and give him not very hot tea with raspberries or honey.

The baby will get better soon! (HLS 2014, No. 21 p. 40).

Traditional treatment of colds with garlic is an effective remedy for adults.

For some people, garlic helps cure a cold overnight.

The woman caught a bad cold at the dacha, and at home she felt that she was getting sick. I took my temperature – 37.2. I decided to treat myself with garlic. She took a crust of bread, generously rubbed it with garlic and salt, ate it, chewing it thoroughly and without washing it down with anything, and she also ate a clove of garlic just like that. The temperature began to drop. When I went to bed, I already felt healthy. The next day the temperature remained normal; just in case, I ate the same sandwich again. The disease was avoided. (HLS 2014, No. 22 p. 31).
If you feel unwell, grate a clove of garlic and inhale its phytoncides for 10-15 minutes, do this several times a day. If your eyes burn, cover them with a towel. Grated onions, horseradish, radishes (sniff, hold in mouth) help cure colds.
Garlic will protect you on the street, cut into strips and attached with adhesive tape to the foot. When walking, garlic softens, the juice is absorbed into the skin, and the blood carries garlic phytoncides throughout the body, providing therapeutic effect. (HLS 2012, No. 18, p. 6).

Regular pasta will help you quickly recover from a cold! Boil pasta, add grated garlic, eat hot - a wonderful diaphoretic and disinfectant. (HLS 2004, No. 10 p. 18,).

How to cure a cold in 1 day at home.

A man has been able to cure a cold in 1 day for 50 years. When he caught a cold in his youth, he turned to doctors. As a result, the treatment turned out to be ineffective, he was broken for 10 days, lay in bed, suffered from melancholy and swallowed pills. After that, I decided to treat myself with folk remedies.
When he gets very cold and has chills, a sore throat, nasal congestion and other cold symptoms, he immediately begins to do the following:

Steams the throat hot water with the addition of salt or soda (1 tsp per glass of water), or with tincture of calendula or chamomile (20-30 drops per glass of water). Gargle for 5-6 minutes. With the same solution rinses the nose.
Soaring feet with hot water and mustard for 10-15 minutes, gradually increasing the water temperature to 40 degrees. Or accepts hot bath with mustard.
Lies under the blanket and drinks a mug of tea with raspberry jam or honey, or decoction linden color. After drinking tea, he wraps his head up. For half an hour he breathes heavily and sweats. Then he frees his head, wipes it, and wraps it in a towel. He sleeps well covered until the morning. In the morning he gets up like a cucumber, takes a shower, has breakfast and goes to work. (HLS 2004, No. 5, p. 13).

Milk with garlic and vodka is an emergency remedy.
To quickly get rid of a cough or runny nose when you have a cold, take this remedy:
Finely chop 1 clove of garlic, pour in 1 glass of milk and bring to a boil. Remove from heat, add 1 tsp. butter and 3-4 tbsp. l. vodka or cognac. Immediately drink, go to bed, covered with a warm blanket. In the morning there is no trace of the cold left. (HLS 2014, No. 23 p. 30-31).

Quick treatment of colds in children and adults with milk and onions.
Recover from a cold in as soon as possible will help next remedy: finely chop a medium-sized onion, pour a glass of milk in an enamel mug and bring to a boil, remove from heat. Lean over, breathe steam over the mug, and when the contents have cooled, eat the onion pulp, add honey to the milk and drink. Do this procedure 2-3 times a day. The disease will subside. (HLS 2007, No. 24 p. 18-19).

Milk with egg.
At the first signs of a cold, you need to take 0.5 liters of warm milk, add a raw egg, 1 tsp. honey, 1 tsp. butter. The milk should be at such a temperature that the butter and honey dissolve and the egg does not curdle. The warm mixture should be drunk in small sips at night. The disease can be completely cured in 2-3 days (HLS 2012, No. 24).

Propolis.

How to get rid of colds at home using propolis.
Inhalations: melt propolis and wax in a 1:1 ratio in a water bath. When heated, steam will rise, which must be inhaled by bowing your head and covering your head with a towel. This inhalation will immediately cleanse Airways, will increase the body's overall resistance to disease.
You can simply chew propolis, How chewing gum, it is especially useful to do this before bed. With the help of propolis, you can get back on your feet in 1-2 days if you do the procedures often enough. (HLS 2014, No. 15 p. 30).
Propolis tincture with alcohol helps to get back on your feet. You can prepare it yourself or buy it at the pharmacy. Half an hour before meals, drink 1 tbsp. l. propolis tincture and immediately drink it with 1 tbsp. l. melted butter. Do it 3 times a day. This folk remedy will help you heal, and if propolis is taken in this way for 2-3 weeks, the stomach ulcer, if any, will heal. (HLS 2014, No. 20 p. 40).
If the disease has just begun, An infusion of fireweed tea with propolis tincture will help. 1 tsp. Koporsky tea (fermented willowherb leaves) pour 1 glass of hot boiled milk, leave for 40 minutes, then add 1 tsp. propolis and drink before bed. After this, go straight to bed. During the night the disease comes out along with profuse sweat. In advanced cases, treatment can be repeated every evening 3-5 times. (HLS 2014, No. 21 p. 39).
Propolis in milk Can be taken without Koporye tea. Add 1 tsp to a glass of hot milk. Propolis tincture, drink in large sips before bed. (HLS 2009, No. 20 p. 31).

Peanut butter.
Whoever can get fresh young leaves walnut(it is advisable that the leaf sticks to your hands), it has every chance of curing a cold in 1 day.
Finely chop 80 g of leaves, pour in 100 ml of vegetable oil, heated to 50-60 degrees. Place in a dark place for 30 days, shake the mixture daily. After a month, a thick black oily liquid forms in the jar; it must be strained, the leaves squeezed out, and the liquid poured into a dark bottle. The healing oil is ready.
A Healthy Lifestyle reader, at the first sign of nasal congestion, rubs the bridge of her nose with this oil so that the skin burns. Then rubs the depression on the neck, armpits, under the elbows, feet, back. All this is done before bed. At night this rubbing makes her sweat, and in the morning she gets up completely healthy. (HLS 2014, No. 17 p. 8,).

Red pepper and milk.
Red helps get rid of illness hot peppers. This recipe has been tested several times.
Place a small piece of red pepper the size of a fingernail in 1 glass of milk and boil. Throw out the pepper, drink the milk and go straight to bed. You will wake up healthy in the morning. Pepper will not only warm up the blood overnight and drive away illness, but also give strength and energy. (HLS 2011, No. 12, p. 33).

How to cure a cold in 1 day using folk remedies.

The woman woke up in the morning with chills, a temperature of 38.5, a sore head, a stuffy throat and a sore throat. That day was a day off and she and her husband had to go to visit their parents. The husband did not know what to do, go alone or treat his wife. The wife sent her husband to visit and began to treat his cold.
sucked for 20 minutes vegetable oil– 1 tbsp. l. After 20 minutes I spat it out white clot. I brushed my teeth and tongue. I drank tea with grated currants and fell asleep. An hour later I woke up, did the same procedures again and drank tea with raspberries. I decided not to eat anything that day, I just sucked on the oil every 1.5 hours and drank herbal teas with honey, sea buckthorn, raspberries, lemon, ginger, dill seeds. All this helped, by 15:00 the temperature dropped to 37 degrees. At 6 p.m., when the husband returned, there was no trace of the illness left, which he was very surprised by.
In the spring, the woman fell ill again, repeated the same treatment, and again she managed to get rid of the cold in 1 day. (HLS 2012, No. 1, p. 28,).

Quick treatment for colds with herbs.
A man came to the village on vacation to visit relatives. On the very first day I went to pick mushrooms, got caught in the rain and got sick, I started getting chills, got up heat. The man was upset that his entire vacation was gone and sent his wife to the pharmacy to get some medicine. But his relatives said that they could cure his cold themselves in 2 days. And in fact, after two days there was no trace of the disease left.
And they treated him like this: in a 700-gram jar they put 300 ml of meadowsweet flowers, 1 tbsp. l. calendula flowers, sage leaves, tricolor violet herb, poured 500 ml of vodka over it all, closed the jar with a lid and put it in a pan with hot water for 1 hour. The water was periodically heated to keep it from getting cold. Then they removed it and gave the patient 2 tsp to drink. 3 times a day before meals.
Now the man himself keeps these herbs at home. (HLS 2012, No. 6, p. 39).

How to lower your temperature when you have a cold.
The reader has a reliable, proven own experience recipe when the temperature is high.
Soak your feet in hot water overnight baking soda or mustard. Then moisten apple cider vinegar two pieces of cotton wool and place them on both heels, put a plastic bag and a sock on each foot. In the evening he goes to bed with a temperature of 39, and in the morning he wakes up like a cucumber with a temperature of 36.5.
Very effective way to relieve fever. (HLS 2009, No. 17, p. 32).

Instructions

In order to expel the virus from the body, you need rest and peace. Therefore, try to arrange sick leave at least for a couple of days. At this time you must be in bed constantly, you must have good sleep. Limit contacts with the outside world: do not turn on the TV and the Internet, as this is very tiring. When it starts, warm your feet in a basin of very hot water. After this, rub your feet with cream and put on warm woolen socks. If you have a severe runny nose, be sure to bury vasoconstrictor drops into the nasal passages, previously washed with warm boiled water.

Ventilate your child's room several times a day. Fresh air cleanses it pathogens and, in addition, has a beneficial effect on breathing. During the cold season, take the baby to another room for ventilation. In warm weather, keep the window open all the time.

The outcome of any disease largely depends on care. Therefore, provide your baby not only symptomatic treatment, but also psychologically encourage him while he is awake - tell fairy tales, read books, sing songs, talk more. Nothing boosts immunity like positive emotions. Of course, this requires a lot of time and effort, but your physical and emotional costs will be compensated by the baby’s health.

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If in addition typical signs colds, symptoms such as photophobia, sudden and persistent fever, rash on the body and dyspeptic disorders- Call a doctor. IN in this case we may be talking about a more serious illness.

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A cold is manifested by general malaise, cough, runny nose, and often fever. Symptoms do not appear immediately and do not go away immediately. So a cough or runny nose can last for quite a long time. It is very important to take action at the first sign of a cold.

You will need

- bed rest;
- “Arbidol”, “Antigrippin”;
- tinctures of lemongrass, eleutherococcus, ginseng, leuzea, rhodiola;
- “Paracetamol”, “Analgin”;
- vitamin drinks, fruits, vegetables, chicken broth;
- milk, honey, butter;
- onions, sugar, St. John's wort, oregano, thyme, chamomile and linden flowers, elecampane root, peppermint, lavender.

Instructions

If, upon waking up in the morning, you feel a heavy runny nose, you should not leave the house. By resting for the first two days, you will prevent possible complications colds. Stock up on the necessary medications and get your body in order.

Start by taking Arbidol, which according to the instructions should be taken every 2 hours for 2-3 days. Prevention is facilitated by homeopathic “Antigrippin”, which is recommended to be dissolved every 2 hours, 5 granules.

At the same time, it is necessary to invigorate the body by taking tinctures of adaptogen plants. Perfect fit pharmacy tinctures Schisandra, Eleutherococcus, ginseng, Leuzea safflower, Rhodiola rosea, etc. Take 25-30 drops dissolved in 40-50 ml boiled water, any of the listed tinctures 3-4 times a day on an empty stomach. Do not take it later than 5 pm, otherwise you may have problems falling asleep.

Take at least 2-2.5 liters vitamin drinks. Berry juice, a mixture of lemon drink with honey, tea with honey and lemon, ginger tea, tea with cinnamon. Eat more fruits, salads, bell pepper, tomatoes. Broth with homemade chicken.

Before going to bed, prepare and take the following remedy. Heat 300 ml of milk to 40 degrees Celsius, add a teaspoon of honey and butter to it. A raw egg Break up the chickens and, after shaking them well, pour them into the milk. Drink the prepared mixture at night. The runny nose and malaise will pass by the morning.

An effective remedy when strong is the following composition. Grind 1 kg onions, pour in a liter of water and, bringing to a boil, cook for an hour over low heat. Then add a glass of sugar and cook for another hour.

A cold is not a diagnosis. This is a common everyday name for diseases that attack us mainly in winter and autumn, when it is cold outside.

A cold is recognized by a runny nose, stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, headache and weakness. Sometimes the temperature rises.

Where does a cold come from?

A cold is not caused by cold, as its name might suggest. Usually a cold is a viral infection, something that is abbreviated in the cards.

exists around us great amount viruses that cause similar symptoms. Viruses spread through air or touch Common cold in places where many people gather: in transport, offices, schools. When germs enter the body, our immune system responds to the attack and produces antibodies - protective proteins that kill the virus. This takes several days, from three to ten, and then the immune system destroys the microbe.

Viruses spread during the cold season, and it is not known exactly why this happens. There is a theory that when low temperatures our immunity weakens and is less able to ward off virus attacks Can Being Cold Really Make You Sick?. This means that it is not the forgotten hat that is to blame for a cold, but the body’s unpreparedness to fight germs.

By the way, influenza also belongs to the “cold” ARVI, but it is much more complex and dangerous virus. How to deal with it, Lifehacker already.

How to treat a cold

Colds actually go away on their own in about a week once antibodies appear. But we can help the body cope with the disease more easily.

Stay home and relax

Of course, we are very busy and cannot afford to relax because of a runny nose. But the body is also very busy: it is overwhelmed with the fight against viruses. And his deadline is more important.

Bed rest is just what you need when you feel unwell.

In addition, respiratory viruses (those that infect respiratory system) are highly contagious. If you have the strength to go to work or study even when sick, then think that you can transmit the virus to a weakened person. And it will not be so easy for him to cope with a cold.

Drink more fluids

This is not “drink eight glasses a day” advice. Liquids are really needed when you have a cold. Dried fruit compote or warm tea helps cope with unpleasant symptoms. You should drink 3-5 cups more per day than when you are healthy.

When there is enough fluid in the body, it is easier for all mucous membranes (which suffer most from the effects of viruses) to work. When a person is sick and drinks a lot, he easily produces phlegm from his lungs and mucus from his nose, which means that viral particles do not linger in the body.

When you have a fever, the body loses a lot of moisture, so a high temperature is also a reason to drink a cup of tea.

You can add herbal decoctions to tea: chamomile, linden, sage. They help alleviate cold symptoms and bring at least some variety to the tea menu.

Use nasal drops

Nasal drops are different, because a runny nose is different.

Salt water drops. Saline solution 0,9% - good remedy to moisturize the mucous membrane. It will help to gently rinse your nose and remove mucus. Some manufacturers offer sea water, but in general you can use regular saline solution, which is sold at the pharmacy: it is cheaper. Salt water You can cook it at home too. To do this, a teaspoon of salt must be dissolved in one liter of water. You can drink this water often, every half hour. Then you will really feel the full power of a simple remedy.
Oil drops. They help when the nose is not stuffy. They moisturize the mucous membranes and make breathing easier.
Vasoconstrictor drops. They remove swelling of the nose, which makes it impossible to breathe. Such drops should be used with caution: do not use them for more than five days, so as not to cause addiction, do not exceed the dosage specified in the instructions, so as not to provoke poisoning active substance(this is especially important for children).

Help your throat

Best help for a sore throat soft therapy: warm tea in small sips, warm rinse, lozenges.

Gargle the better that pleases you. For example, the same herbal decoctions: chamomile or calendula.

Do not force yourself to make elixirs from iodine, soda or aloe with kerosene.

The purpose of rinsing is to relieve pain and swallowing, and not to destroy all living things. The virus still cannot be washed off this way.

Use painkillers

When you just have a headache, don’t force yourself to suffer and take ibuprofen or paracetamol based remedies.

Let the temperature work

Keep it above 38.5°C. Before this figure, it is better not to fight fever, because it is needed to destroy viruses. Of course, if you feel unwell, it is better to help yourself with painkillers and antipyretics.

Ventilate your rooms and take a walk

A draft and fresh air from a window will not cause deterioration. On the contrary, they will help. Ventilation is a way to clean the air in a room from germs, the simplest and most available method disinfection.

Calm walks on fresh air also help you feel better, but you don’t need to go for a walk mall, but in a park or at least an alley, where there are not many people.

Of course, walking is a remedy for when you feel more or less normal or are already recovering.

How not to treat a cold

It turns out that the cold goes away on its own and there is no need to treat it. But it’s hard to accept, you want to do something as quickly as possible and somehow influence the body - shouldn’t you sit idly by? But this is exactly what needs to be done. At colds care and regimen are the treatment; their importance should not be underestimated.

When your hands reach for the first aid kit, remember what not to do:

Drink antibiotics. Antibiotics only act on bacteria and do not kill viruses. Drink antibacterial drugs without indications it is dangerous: you can collect a bouquet side effects and grow a superbug on yourself that will not respond to treatment. Lifehacker already wrote about this.
Buy antiviral drugs and immunomodulators at the pharmacy. They have no proven effectiveness, 100% only work to empty wallets. The same applies to homeopathy.
Put mustard plasters and soar your feet. What grandmothers and parents love so much is too dangerous: there is a high risk of getting burned by hot water or mustard. These procedures do not destroy viruses. I’ll tell you a secret that in medical colleges they are held within the framework of the topic “Distractive procedures” so that the patient feels cared for and thinks less about the disease.
Drink vitamins by the handful. Especially vitamin C. It was once thought to help with colds. This is wrong 5 Tips: Natural Products for the Flu and Colds: What Does the Science Say?, but old beliefs live long.

Why is a cold dangerous?

For more or less healthy person a cold is not dangerous. But if you abuse yourself and don’t allow your body to heal, it can lead to complications. For example, a viral infection will be joined by a bacterial one, which needs to be treated for a long time, or a cold will turn into a cold. In addition, the infection can become chronic, meaning it keeps coming back.

So any cold is a reason to take care of yourself and give yourself time to recover.

When to ask for help

Behind the mask of a cold there may be more serious illnesses. Be sure to seek medical help if:

The symptoms have not gone away for three weeks.
Some symptom has become very strong or causes pain.
It became difficult to breathe.
There was pain in the chest.