Influenza is an infectious and highly contagious disease of the viral nature. Outbreaks of influenza epidemics in adults and children are widespread throughout the world.
The causative agent of the flu is a virus. It intensively multiplies in the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract and is easily spread by airborne droplets during coughing, talking, sneezing. The source of the disease is a sick person.
Outbreaks of influenza have been taking dozens of lives almost every year in recent decades. The flu is affected by all people, regardless of age and sex. Here we will consider the symptoms of influenza and its treatment at home with folk remedies and medical antiviral drugs.
CONTENTS
Influenza symptoms
- At elevated temperature
- With a cold
- With cough
- Treatment for flu, SARS and colds: whether it is necessary to drink antibiotics or pills from the flu
- How to treat flu at home with folk methods
- Influenza: Komarovsky school
- Antiviral drugs: Doctor Komarovsky's school
- How to treat the flu in children: Dr. Komarovsky
- How to treat and how to cure a cold and flu during pregnancy
- Flu or cold: treatment in pregnancy
Symptoms of the flu
One of the first symptoms of the disease is poor health, general malaise, headache, aches andpain in the joints and muscles. Then there is a runny nose, coughing, hoarseness of voice. The temperature rises to high figures 38-40 ° C and lasts 4-6 days.
Patients complain of weakness, headache, pain in the temples, over-eyebrows, joint aches and muscle aches. The disease lasts 5-6 days.
After the flu, various complications are often observed on the kidneys, lungs, brain, etc. People say: "It's not the flu that is terrible, its complications are terrible."
Treatment of influenza: general recommendations of
Patient needs to provide bed rest, since influenza carried on his legs, often leads to complications.
It is necessary to extend night and daytime sleep, to ventilate the room more often, to conduct regular wet cleaning. Watch for the purity of the patient's body, the state of the oral cavity, the function of the intestine.
Food should be rational, high-grade, rich in vitamins. In the feverish period, milk-carbohydrate food with restriction of table salt is desirable. For detoxification, you need a lot of frequent drinking( boiled water, a decoction of dried fruits, fruit juices, fruit drinks, etc.).
Treating flu with folk remedies at home
As soon as the first signs of the disease( sore throat, runny nose), immediately take 1 teaspoon of ascorbic acid. It should be taken 2 more days - it will ease the course of the disease, help it more effectively with it. But you can not abuse this method. The body can get used to large doses of ascorbic acid and respond by weakening the immune system as soon as these doses are reduced.
With flu, it is good to drink tea with cranberries or cranberries, for the night - a rich broth of apples with honey.
At the appearance of the first symptoms of the illness, prepare a medical solution: for 1.5 liters of boiled water add 1 tbsp.spoon of large salt, juice of one lemon and 1 g ascorbic acid. Drink it for an hour and a half, taking it in the evening - wake up healthy in the morning.
After normalizing the temperature and feeling better, you can start warming up - warm( up to 50 ° C) foot and hand baths with mustard, a wool sweater on the naked body to irritate the reflex zones of the back, chest, brushes.
In the first hours of the disease( if there is no temperature), a good effect is provided by foot baths. Pour in a bucket of hot water( so that your feet can hardly stand) water, pour a tablespoon of dry mustard( or 5-7 mustard plasters) and steam your legs for 10-15 minutes. After that, drink hot tea with currants or raspberries and immediately - into bed.
White acacia flowers .1 tbsp. Spoon the flowers fill in 0.5 liters of water, boil for 3 minutes, cool, strain. Drink one third of the glass every 3-4 hours.
Tea is a "rattling mixture". Pour a cup of hot water into the mug, put a teaspoon of honey, raspberry jam, a little red pepper, a tablespoon of alcohol( or 2 tablespoons of vodka).Drink hot, warm your feet, warm up your clothes and sit by the TV.Legs will begin to "burn".The cold will pass unnoticed.
Remember the medicinal properties of potatoes. Put a potato peel in a pot of water, cook, then breathe over the steam for 10-15 minutes. The procedure is used for influenza, acute respiratory infections and colds.
If you know that the flu epidemic has already begun somewhere, and you often get sick, drink for 10 days Dibasol ( a weak pressure medicine) on one quarter of the whole pill 2 times a day. This medicine( as recently discovered in experiments at the Ural plants) is a good biostimulator. After such a course of preventive treatment, you will have a minimum risk of getting the flu, and even if you get sick, you will endure the disease very easily.
The decoction of fruits of viburnum with honey helps with catarrhal diseases. It has a diaphoretic and expectorant effect. Spread a tablespoon of flowers or fruits with a glass of boiling water. Boil 5-6 minutes, cool, strain. Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
During epidemics of influenza, it is useful to chew twigs and leaves of eleutherococcus, garlic, onions to prevent disease.
With influenza it is useful to take an alcoholic tincture of eucalyptus. 20 g of dry crushed leaves pour 100 g of alcohol. Close tightly and press for 10 days. Strain and wring out the remainder. Take 25 drops 3 times a day with water.
5-7 teeth of garlic finely shred and dilute in a glass of milk. Boil and allow to cool. Take with diseases of the upper respiratory tract 3-4 times a day for 1 teaspoonful. You can use the onion.
The Siberian elder. Tablespoon of dried leaves and flowers fill with a glass of boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain. Take one fourth cup 3-4 times a day, preferably with honey.
Infusion of dry raspberry fruit . Pour a tablespoon of fruit in a glass of boiling water. Insist 30 minutes. Drink a glass of hot infusion 2-3 times a day.
Fresh garlic is useful to eat on the 1 denticle 2-3 times a day to prevent the flu.
Gathering 1 :
- raspberry fruit - 1 piece;
- linden flowers - 1 part.
A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, strain. Drink a glass of hot infusion 2-3 times a day.
Pour dry or hot mustard powder in stockings and put them on the patient. To go in such stockings( or socks) it is necessary some days.
Soak woolen cloth with mixture of vinegar, olive oil and camphor. Apply to the breast at night in a gauze pouch. At the back of the neck, attach a compress of grated horseradish.
When flu epidemic, it is useful to wear "garlic necklace" on the neck ( 3-4 cloves with skin are threaded onto the nylon thread, so that the denticles are on the sternum).
Anti-influenza tea. Willow bark, chamomile flowers, lime blossom, rose hips. All take in equal parts and pour 300 ml of boiling water. Insist 10 minutes, strain, wring out. Drink one third of the glass 3 times a day in a warm form.
Raspberry sprigs fill with water, boil for 20 minutes, let it brew and drink like tea warm or hot several times a day with honey.
At an elevated temperature
With a solution of weak vinegar or semi-alcohol , moisten the waffle towel and vigorously rub the skin. Surface vessels expand, and the temperature after 3-5 minutes of light massage is reduced to normal. This procedure can be repeated several times.
Well reduces the temperature of the composition of the following juices: orange( 100 ml) + lemon( 100 ml) + or apple( 100 ml) + tomato( 75 ml) + beet( 25 ml).
Also the body temperature well reduces the tincture from pine buds or of young fir branches: 1 kg of young shoots of fir or pine buds and 0.5 kg raspberry roots grind, lay in layers in a glass jar, putting between them sugar and honey(1 kg of sugar and 0.5 kg of honey).Add 200 ml of boiling water. Infuse for a day, then simmer on a water bath for 6-8 hours. Again, insist two days. Form a bright raspberry juice drain and store in a dark cool place. Adults take juice for 1 tbsp.spoon 4-5 times a day before meals.
With a cold
Rinse the nose with saline solutions or seawater. To prepare saline solution for a glass of warm water, add 2-3 drops of iodine and a teaspoon of salt. Stir.
The healing effect of the cold is provided by freshly prepared juice of Kalanchoe or white cabbage. It causes mild irritation of the mucous membrane, sneezing and as a result - the release of the nose from mucus. Some people are good at helping fresh aloe juice. It is administered in both halves of the nose for 5 drops 2-3 consecutive days every two hours. In case of a severe runny nose:
- , place a wet cloth on the wings of the nose. Put a small amount of grated onion on the napkin. Lie down with such a compress 10 minutes. Breathing will become much easier. The head will cease to hurt;
- grind the chive clove and pound it into the nasal passages. Suffer a burning sensation, let tears flow, pierce from the heart - the rhinitis will stop in three hours;
- is much softer when burying garlic oil in your nose: fill one tablespoon of vegetable oil with one tablespoon of vegetable oil a night, filter it and bury it in your nose 3-4 times a day, after removing the mucus from it.
Effective remedy for the common cold is obtained if honey add to the juice of raw red beet : for 1 teaspoon of honey 2.5 teaspoons of beet juice. Bury 5-6 drops in each nasal passage 4-5 times a day.
Especially helps such treatment for children with enlarged adenoids in the nasopharynx - significantly improves nasal breathing, temporarily stops the allocation of mucus from the nose. This remedy replaces the use of any vasoconstrictive drops in the nose.
With cough
Good cough remedy - lemon juice with honey: a small lemon fill with water and boil on low heat for no more than 10 minutes, cool, cut in half and squeeze the juice into a 200 gram glass. To the lemon juice add two tablespoons of glycerin for internal use, to the edges of the glass, pour the honey and mix everything thoroughly.
With a strong and frequent cough, take 2 teaspoons of the mixture 3 times before meals, and overnight. If the cough is strong, but rare and dry, take a teaspoon of the mixture before and after breakfast, lunch, dinner and always before bedtime. Such syrup is also enjoyed with pleasure by small children: from year on, they can be given a teaspoon of a mixture before meals 3 times a day and at night.
For infants, this way of getting rid of cough is suggested: add 2 tablespoons of anise seeds( they are in pharmacies) and a pinch of table salt to a teaspoon of honey. All this pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, strain. Give the child a teaspoon every two hours. As the cough subsides, reduce the dose of the mixture.
Do not give the mixture to children with diathesis.
Very effective when coughing honey massage. He can lower the body temperature and replace the mustard seeds with a teaspoon of honey. Melt at 40 ° C and with the pads of the three fingers of his hand, start to "beat" it into the skin in the sternum or in the spine between the shoulder blades on the back. Massage for 1-2 minutes. Repeat the procedure for 2-3 days.
Drugs for influenza: drugs, tablets, ointment
Specific treatment of influenza( as well as adenovirus infections) is carried out by gamma globulin containing antibodies against a number of respiratory viruses. At present, immune gamma globulin, obtained from donors immunized against influenza and adenoviral infections, has been developed. The drug is administered in a dose of 2-5 ml intramuscularly( depending on the age).
From medicinal antiviral drugs are recommended:
Browse a useful article where antiviral drugs that can and should be used to treat influenza at home are well described: Anaferon, Arbidol, Kagocel, Remantadin, Cycloferon, Vetom.
Rimantadine. Locks the ionic tubules of the virus. The virus loses the ability to penetrate into the cell and release the ribonucleoprotein.
Arbidol. This drug stimulates the activity of phagocytic cells, which contributes to the death of the virus.
Drugs such as oxolin ointment ( for lubricating the nasal mucosa) and Florenal and Interferon ( in the form of nasal drops) are widely used in medical practice.
If the patient has complications in the form of neurotoxicosis, cardiovascular disorders, asthmatic syndrome, croup, requiring urgent and complex treatment methods, it is necessary to send to a hospital for constant medical supervision.
For mild and moderate forms, symptomatic therapy is performed - antipyretic, hypnotics, coughs, drops in the nose, rinses of the oropharynx with decoctions of herbs, etc.
All this will be prescribed by a doctor called at home.
Antibiotics only should be used for strict indications:
- for severe and moderate forms of influenza in young children to suppress bacterial flora that can cause complications;
- in the presence of complications due to the attachment of a bacterial infection( pneumonia, otitis, pyelitis, etc.);
- patients with chronic diseases of bacterial nature( chronic pneumonia, tonsillitis, sinusitis, chronic kidney damage, etc.).
At present, official medicine emphasizes its actions on methods of therapy and prevention of diseases by sparing methods( general immunological protection of the population, especially children).Therefore, it is not necessary to hurry to the pharmacy for drops and tablets. They will help for a while, but you need to stimulate natural immunity, otherwise the flu and other colds will pester you more and more often.
In the treatment of influenza, attention should be paid to folk remedies that enhance the body's immune defenses against pathogens and viruses.
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