Gargling

With catarrhal diseases and angina, an excellent therapeutic effect gives the throat rinsing several times a day with various solutions. Depending on the signs of the disease, these or other drugs help. It is necessary to take into account the general condition of the patient, contraindications to the appointment of certain broths to young children and during pregnancy.

The most common solution, which is carried out by rinsing the throat, is a quickly prepared solution of ½ cup of water, ½ tsp. Tea soda, salt and 3 drops of iodine. If the throat is rinsed every hour, then the pain will disappear by the end of the first day. It is important to begin treatment with the first symptoms of the disease, then the effect of treatment will come faster and be palpable.

There are several simple rinse rules that you need to perform:

- Rinse solution better to prepare before use. If he stood for several hours, then microbes already multiplied in it. It is unlikely that such treatment will give a good result;

- The rinse water should be warm or hot, but it is impossible to burn the mucous membrane, so as not to worsen the condition;

- with angina during rinsing, you must pronounce the sound "Y". Then the liquid can reach the far corners in the tonsils where the infection is;

- a procedure lasting less than 30 seconds is simply meaningless, because the drug solution must affect the microbes.

- you need to learn to hold your breath while rinsing your throat. Do not swallow liquids in order not to harm your own stomach. After all, the solution is for external use;

- Rinse throat is most useful after eating. After the procedure, do not eat or drink, so that the drug has time to act;

- the more you gargle, the more effective the treatment will be. There is no point in doing this less than 4-6 times a day;

- Combine the gargling of the throat and nose at the same time, at least in the morning and in the evening, so as not to allow microbes to multiply rapidly. And during the day they can simply alternate to fix the effect.

To soften the mucous throat it is useful to make a decoction with ginger and honey. To kill microbes, hydrogen peroxide or citric acid is added to the solution. It is useful to suck a slice of lemon. When laryngitis is useful, rinse with a peel of onions, with eucalyptus. If you lose your voice, it helps to rinse your throat with a solution of honey, cranberry juice and lemon juice. In addition, such a healing solution can be drunk in small sips throughout the day.

In the treatment of pharyngitis use a mixture of herbs, when ½ liter of boiling water is taken on a tablespoon of sage, eucalyptus and chamomile, lime-colored or plantain. The broth should be boiled for 15 minutes. Then cool a little and add a spoonful of honey and lemon juice or a little bit of citric acid. Get a nice solution for rinsing hourly.

With angina, they help to relieve pain, inflammation such folk remedies as 1: 1 diluted apple cider vinegar, fresh beet juice, carrots, horseradish. It is very popular to rinse your throat with calendula. For this enough 2 tsp. Herbs brew in ½ cup of boiling water.

With catarrhal diseases, it is effective to rinse the throat with a solution of furacillin or chlorophyllipt, which are involved in the fight against a viral infection.

With purulent tonsillitis for the removal of deposits and purulent plugs, the most significant application of hydrogen peroxide. First, the hydroperite tablet is diluted in a glass of water to produce hydrogen peroxide. Then, by tilting the head, deeply and thoroughly rinse the throat, grasping the back wall, the tonsils and the root of the tongue. Then you can continue rinsing the throat with chamomile or a weak solution of potassium permanganate in order to wash off the peroxide.

Decoctions of chamomile for adults are prepared at the rate of 2 tbsp. L. Flowers for 2 cups of boiling water. Boil the broth for 10 minutes, then cool, strain, add a spoonful of honey and use to rinse.

For young children with a cold, it is useful to make tea from chamomile. Take a teaspoon of flowers, pour a glass of boiling water and insist 15 minutes. That the child necessarily drank it, it is possible to sweeten infusion with honey or fructose. And for older children, you can use the same infusion for rinsing and throat, and nose.