Compress dry and wet cough: how to do?

Coughing is a rather unpleasant symptom that accompanies most diseases of the respiratory tract. Despite the fact that today in pharmacies there are many medications designed to relieve cough attacks, many people turn to alternative prescriptions for help - proven ways to eliminate or reduce painful symptoms. Cough compress is just such a “long-standing”, but very effective method that can be applied at almost any age. Simplicity, accessibility and effectiveness are the main advantages of coughing compresses treatment.

Cough compress treats for the evening?

Cough compress is quite versatile, so they are valued by alternative healers and representatives of traditional medicine. Such a simple treatment helps to eliminate cough with sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, colds, whooping cough and other respiratory and colds, and recovery occurs quickly - sometimes you can get rid of cough even in one evening. The main thing is the proper conduct of the procedure, taking into account all the recommendations. For example, if the compress is installed in the wrong sequence, or insufficiently pinned, then the patient will feel not cooling, but cooling. This not only does not lead to a cure, but also provokes the development of complications.

Cough compresses are distracting and warming treatments. The heat effect is usually mild, soothing: the vessels dilate, the blood flow to the inflamed area improves, the sputum is excreted and excreted. Such treatment is considered an excellent addition to all kinds of medicines and alternative medicine.

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Indications for the procedure

Cough compress is often a multi-layered dressing consisting of various components. It is these components, as well as properly laid layers together have a distracting, warming and absorbing effect. During the procedure, there is a prolonged expansion of small and large blood vessels, thereby increasing blood flow to the affected area. As a result, the site of inflammation dissolves, sputum liquefies, irritated tissues calm down, and the cough gradually disappears.

Compresses from a strong dry cough often have a vodka, honey, mustard base. You can also use drugs - for example, dimexide.

Wet cough is well eliminated by cabbage or paraffin procedures.

Cough compress at a temperature does not apply, no matter how therapeutic it may be. This should be remembered if you want to treat a cough that accompanies various viral diseases that are accompanied by fever. First you need to wait for the normalization of temperature indicators, and only after that proceed to the warming procedures.

Cough compress for bronchitis has always been considered a basic treatment procedure. In addition to bronchitis, a similar treatment is indicated:

• pharyngitis;
• in acute respiratory diseases, ARVI;
• in the larynx;
• with pneumonia;
• with uncomplicated tonsillitis;
• with a cold.

Compress from cold and cough put in the evening, closer to going to bed. It is necessary to have it in the chest, in the zone you want to warm up: this can be done from the back or chest, avoiding the projection of the heart (it should be left free). The general rules of such treatment, we give below.

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Preparation

The preparatory stage, which precedes the formulation of a cough compress, may be different, depending on the components that make up the remedy. Standard warming compress involves the following training:

• In advance, you should prepare wax paper, cotton wool, a bandage or gauze, alcohol or vodka, scissors, or other necessary tools and accessories, depending on the type of compress.
• If necessary, the patient is explained the purpose and course of the upcoming manipulations (this is especially important if the procedure is performed for children).
• The person who will install the cough compress should wash their hands beforehand.
• To avoid the appearance of irritation, the surface of the skin in the zone of the proposed formulation of the compress is smeared with baby cream, petroleum jelly or vegetable oil.

It is better to carry out procedures in the evening, before going to bed. It is proved that a compress for the night of cough helps better, because the body has all the conditions for recovery. In addition, the patient with a warm compress quickly calms down and falls asleep.

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Technique of the cough compress

Respiratory diseases are often accompanied by coughing attacks. In such a situation, the doctor may advise on setting compresses, which are able to quickly alleviate the condition and speed up the healing process.

Coughing compresses have a lot of advantages:

• practically do not cause adverse events;
• do not provoke habituation of the organism;
• suitable for the treatment of adults and children;
• cheap;
• available in everyday situations at almost any time.

There are many options for how to make a cough compress at home, recipes are offered for any "taste and color." However, you need to consider the type of cough in order to properly affect it:

• Dry cough is an indication for the use of compresses with mustard, honey, alcohol-based or dimexide.
• Wet cough is a reason to include paraffin, cabbage, and other vegetable components in the compress.
• Oil-based, cottage-cheese or potato-based compresses are universal and can be used to treat any type of cough.

Best Cough Compresses

Next, we present a number of the most common prescriptions, which are particularly popular with doctors, alternative healers, and the patients themselves.

• Cough compress with honey is considered particularly effective, but only if it is done correctly. Honey cough compress works easily, sparing: vodka plays the role of a warming agent, and honey, absorbed into the tissue, gives them all the available beneficial substances, acting as a kind of biostimulator. How to make such a compress? They take natural honey, smear it on the chest, bypassing the heart projection zone. Next, take a small cloth, moisten it with vodka and apply it to the chest over the honey. Next, the design is fixed with oilcloth, then with a scarf or a scarf (preferably woolen). Leave until morning, then remove, and wipe the skin with a towel dipped in warm water or vegetable infusion.
• Compress with cough dimexidum has long been used in official medicine as an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. Dimexide for compress is diluted with water (approximately 50/50). The resulting liquid is heated in a water bath (you can use a microwave) to body temperature. Weave a tissue cloth in a warm liquid, squeeze and apply to the chest area. A plastic wrap and a warm scarf are fastened over the fabric. The dressing is kept on the body for no more than an hour.
• Compress from cough potatoes is considered one of the most popular recipes, and exists in two interpretations. For treatment, you can use both boiled potatoes and raw. For example, a raw potato tinder on a grater, spread over a piece of gauze (in one layer). The patient's skin is rubbed with vinegar, a bandage is applied with a warm and moist potato mass, fixed with a warm scarf. Compress can be enhanced by adding grated black radish to potatoes. Another potato cough compress is also known: several potatoes are boiled together with the peel, pounded in mashed potatoes, the resulting mass is spread over two layers of tissue. Compress impose on the chest, fix and warmed. Remove the bandage after cooling mass.
• Compress with cough mustard is used only for adult practice, as mustard powder can cause a severe burn if it comes in contact with delicate baby skin. Take one tablespoon of dry mustard, the same amount of vegetable oil and flour. From the whole mass form a cake, distribute it over the surface of the chest, on top cover with plastic wrap and fix with a scarf or a scarf. Compress incubated for 10-20 minutes, if the patient does not experience severe discomfort in the form of burning and pain. If severe unpleasant symptoms appear, the procedure is stopped: the bandage is removed and the skin is washed with warm water. Treatment is allowed to repeat no more than a day.
• Cough compress with honey and mustard warms perfectly, contributing to the speedy recovery. Prepare it like this: melt the honey in a water bath, add mustard powder (per 100 ml of honey - 1 tsp. Of powder). A piece of fabric or gauze folded 3-4 times is put on the patient's chest, and a warm medical honey-mustard mass is distributed over it. From above cover with a film and a warm scarf, a blanket. When a strong burning sensation occurs, the procedure is stopped, the bandage is removed, and the skin of the breast is wiped with warm water.
• Cough compress with honey, flour and mustard is only allowed for adult patients. Take fresh honey, put it in a thin layer on the chest or back. Then, mustard powder and flour are mixed in equal parts, brewed with boiling water and dough is made, which is put in a bandage of an arbitrary shape. Compress is placed on top of honey, fixed on the chest. If possible, hold for several hours, but when a strong burning or reddening of the skin appears, the compress is removed.
• Cough compress with cabbage leaf is especially often used in children's practice. For the procedure, you will need large sheets of ordinary white cabbage: they are placed in boiling water for literally one minute, then allowed to cool slightly and applied to the breast on clean skin, wrapped in film and a warm scarf. If you pre-coat the skin of the breast with real honey, and only then apply warm cabbage leaves, you will get another, more effective cough compress with honey and cabbage. This procedure is allowed to be repeated twice a day, throughout the week. The first results will be visible already during the first day of applying this type of treatment. Compress from cabbage cough is best suited to enhance the excretion of mucus from the bronchi or trachea, as well as to relieve the main signs of inflammation. Patients claim that for the procedure it is better to choose not the uppermost leaves, but those that are located in the next layer. Cabbage cough compress can be used to improve the condition of women during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• Alcohol cough compress is popular because of its availability and effectiveness. Its essence is as follows: a tissue napkin or gauze towel is impregnated with alcohol and distributed evenly in the chest, avoiding the projection zone of the heart. Polyethylene or oilcloth is put on top, fixed with a bandage, then a warm towel or rug. The procedure is preferable to perform at bedtime.
• Cough vodka compress is softer than alcohol, and can last longer on the skin. A vodka cough compress is prepared like this: a piece of natural fabric is plentifully moistened with vodka, wrung out, laid on the skin of the chest from the back, covered with a plastic film larger than the fabric. The bandage is fixed, heat is covered.
• Cough compress with vodka and honey is prepared in this way. They take a bowl, pour into it three tablespoons of vodka and two tablespoons of real honey. The resulting solution is impregnated with gauze or cloth, applied to the chest and fixed for at least 4-5 hours. If the patient complains of a burning sensation, then the bandage is removed earlier.
• Salt cough compress is considered one of the most simple and equally effective ways to facilitate the health of the patient. Rather, it is not even a compress, but a lotion, for the preparation of which it is permitted to use rock or sea salt. To begin with, a salt solution is prepared: for one liter of hot water, 100 g of salt is required. Moisten in the resulting solution a slice of gauze or a tissue napkin, apply to the chest, heat wrapped. Hold the bandage on the body until it cools completely.
• Compress of cough cottage cheese, at first glance, it seems absurd. However, experts say that cottage cheese perfectly relieves pain, eliminates tissue swelling and, as it were, “pulls” the disease out of the body. Prepare about a pound of fresh cottage cheese, distribute it on a cloth in one layer, equal to about ½ centimeter. A compress is placed on the skin with a napkin downwards, and the top is covered with another piece of fabric. The entire dressing should be of body temperature before laying, so it can be warmed up a little (for example, on the battery). The bandage is fixed with a handkerchief and kept on the chest until the curd mass dries.
• Cough oil compresses have become popular not so long ago. Previously, they were mainly used for sore throat or laryngitis, applied to the front of the neck. An oil cough compress was no less useful for pneumonia, chronic or acute inflammation of the bronchi - but in this case it should be applied to the chest. The method of preparation is simple: a little olive oil is heated in a water bath (olive, corn, or even sunflower oil), a cloth is impregnated with warm oil, which is applied to the patient's chest. Wax paper is placed on top of the fabric and warmed with a scarf or towel. Hold on the body for several hours (for example, until the morning).
• Compress with dioxidine cough involves the use of a 1% solution of the drug. Such treatment cannot be performed to treat pregnant or lactating women, or children. A cloth is moistened in 1% dioxidine, applied to the chest, a piece of cellophane or wax paper is placed on top, fixed with a bandage and covered with a warm blanket. Hold the tool on the skin for 45-50 minutes once a day.
• Propolis cough compress is an excellent warming and sedative agent recommended for various respiratory diseases. It is enough to buy propolis tincture in a pharmacy, dilute it in half with warm water. The solution is moistened with a tissue cloth, applied to the chest, covered with polyethylene and a warm scarf (towel). Hold the compress for 30-60 minutes, subject to the absence of unpleasant sensations in the form of burning and pain.
• Only a doctor can prescribe a cough compress with dimexide and euphyllin: self-administration of this combination of medicines can be dangerous. To prepare the solution, one part of Dimexid is mixed with 4 parts of water, then ½ ampoules of aminophylline are mixed. A warm solution is moistened with a piece of gauze, applied to the chest, covered with foil and woolen cloth. The procedure is carried out at night, and its duration should not exceed 30 minutes. The course of treatment is not more than five days.
• Cough fat compress is often used to treat children. To get rid of the paroxysmal cough, the patient is rubbed with this ointment: take 50 g of fat (pork, lamb, goat, and badger), melt in a water bath, cool and mix with 2 tbsp. L vodka. To enhance the effect, you can add a few drops of essential oil of pine, fir, eucalyptus. Mass is rubbed into the chest, then put a warm scarf or shawl, cover with a blanket. Leave for the night, and in the morning - remove and warmly dress the patient.
• Cough compress with Vishnevsky ointment eliminates cough attacks, relieves wheezing in the chest, but only if the treatment was carried out at the initial stage of the inflammatory process. A wide enough piece of gauze is taken, Vishnevsky ointment is applied to it, applied to the chest area. A layer of plastic film is placed on top, covered with a warm scarf, fixed. Hold the bandage for at least 1-2 hours. Treatment may last 5-6 days in a row.

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Adult cough compress

For adults, treatment with alternative methods, in particular, the use of compresses, often becomes a substitute for visiting a doctor. This is fundamentally wrong, because it is important to first determine the cause and nature of cough, and only then consider the possibility of using thermal procedures. We should not forget that compresses are contraindicated in tuberculosis, tumor processes, and serious heart diseases. To exclude these pathologies, it is necessary to undergo a comprehensive diagnosis by a doctor.

You should also keep in mind the following cautions:

• if dimexide is part of the compress, then such treatment cannot be performed with heart problems or insufficient kidney function;
• Before starting the procedures, it is necessary to take into account all possible allergic reactions in order not to cause the development of a complication;
• any coughing coughing chests are applied around the projection area of the heart (warming the heart area may adversely affect the functioning of the vital organ).

The choice of the area of application of a compress depends on the characteristics of the cough and on which part of the respiratory tract is affected by the inflammatory process. With the defeat of the bronchi, trachea, lungs, heating is carried out throughout the chest (front and rear, except for the projection area of the heart). Cough compress on the throat can be applied with superficial cough associated with laryngitis, pharyngitis, uncomplicated sore throat. In such a situation, coughing (mainly coughing) is only of a reflex nature, since it occurs as a result of inflammatory irritation of the upper respiratory tract. After stopping the inflammatory process, such a cough goes away after a while.

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Coughing compresses during pregnancy

Any disease, including a slight cold cough, against the background of low immunity can result in various complications. This is what often happens during pregnancy. Therefore, it is very important to take measures at the first painful symptoms and fight against any ailment. However, the difficulty lies in the fact that pregnant women are introduced "taboo" for most medicines. How can cough be affected? Compresses come to the rescue. Although we should not forget that they are only entitled to appoint a doctor.

With the permission of the doctor, compresses based on potatoes and paraffin are allowed. It is believed that procedures based on the action of vodka, alcohol or vinegar should not be used by pregnant patients. Therefore, preference should be given to dry heat.

In the absence of hypersensitivity to apiculture products, it is possible to use honey cough compresses - however, infrequently and with great care.

General rules for setting compresses during pregnancy are no different. It is necessary to avoid components of the compress on the abdomen and do not self-medicate. It is also unacceptable to allow coughing to "run dry": severe coughing attacks can cause placental abruption, increased uterine tone and other serious complications.

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Cough compress baby

Eliminating cough in children is not an easy task, especially when it comes to babies. However, according to experts, cough compresses are acceptable for use for the treatment of patients of any age. Of course, subject to the consideration of all contraindications and compliance with the nuances of the procedure.

Cough compress for up to a year is put extremely carefully: its base should not be alcohol or vodka, and should not be hot. It is allowed to apply dry heat for a short time, as well as oil compresses (for example, camphor oil).

Procedures are not carried out at high body temperature, with skin rash, prickly heat, allergic rashes, with cardiac pathologies, as well as against the background of treatment with strong antibiotics.

Older children compresses set in the evening and held for several hours (or all night). For children up to 3-4 years, this approach is unacceptable: the procedure is carried out in the evening, but after 30-120 minutes the product is removed, and the skin is rubbed with a warm, damp cloth. Next, the baby is well wrapped and sent to sleep.

Preparing for this type of treatment for children, you need to remember: in no case should a child complain of any discomfort. If the baby cries, indicates a burning sensation, tingling, or simply shows obvious signs of anxiety, the treatment should be stopped by switching to other benign procedures.

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Contraindications to the procedure

Cough compress will only have a positive effect if the procedures are carried out competently and combined with other alternative and traditional therapies. In general, compresses are among the most benign therapeutic effects that are not able to adversely affect the patient's body: they can be used to eliminate cough, including the elderly, children, and women who are awaiting the birth of a child. However, one should not forget about the contraindications for this type of treatment:

• high body temperature, fever;
• visible injuries and breaches of the integrity of the skin in the area of the proposed installation of a compress (meaning scratches, ulcers, scuffs, insect bites, cracks, rashes, wounds, burns);
• heart disease (if the compress is supposed to put on the chest);
• high blood pressure, hypertension;
• tumor processes;
• allergic reactions, hypersensitivity to any of the components that are used to prepare a cough compress;
• tuberculosis.

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Consequences after the procedure

If the cough compress is installed illiterately, with errors and violations, then it may well appear complications after the procedure in the form of skin irritations and even burns.

In order to avoid negative manifestations, you must follow these rules:

• integuments need to be pre-treated with petroleum jelly or baby cream;
• do not apply the product if the skin has any damage or dermatological problems;
• manipulation is carried out only on dry clean skin;
• Do not install the agent if iodine is applied to the skin.

Properly installed compress does not cause burning, itching, tightness, pain. The patient should be comfortable, warm, calm. If unpleasant sensations appear in the form of tingling, burning, deterioration of health, difficulty breathing, then you need to remove the bandage as soon as possible. With a properly installed compress, the skin should have a smooth pink tint, but not a red spot (it indicates a possible burn).

The appearance of obvious redness, swelling and rashes indicates the development of an allergic reaction to the ingredients used to prepare a cough compress.

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Care after the procedure

Coughing compresses are usually put on overnight, as they must be applied for six or eight hours. If the allotted time has already passed (for example, in the morning), then the product is removed, the skin is wiped dry and well warmed (with a scarf, blanket, scarf). It is better if after the procedure the patient lies under a blanket for another hour, or more.

After removing the compress is not recommended:

• engage in active physical activity;
• scream, talk loudly;
• run, jump, go out;
• take a shower.

Also, you should not immediately impose a new compress: the skin and the body as a whole should fully recover after the treatment. It is optimal to apply a remedy once a day for the night, unless the doctor has appointed otherwise. Preferably, between the procedures will be maintained for 4-6 hours.

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Reviews

Medical practice indicates that coughing coughs can be effective for treating many respiratory diseases: warming up in a short time improves the condition of patients, copes with the inflammatory process, and therefore becomes an excellent addition to the prescribed medical treatment.

It is necessary to do the procedures with caution, or not to do them at all, if the patient has complaints about the work of the heart, or there are suspicions of oncology. Doctors rush to remind you that a compress cannot become a panacea for all diseases associated with coughing, even despite its effectiveness.

The patients themselves overwhelmingly leave only good reviews about the conduct of such procedures to combat cough. Basic recipes for setting compresses are affordable, do not require large financial costs, and against this background, no less effective. Often, patients can significantly alleviate their condition and even get rid of cough when there are problems with obtaining medical advice (for example, during rest or travel).

In general, a cough compress can be called a universal remedy for most respiratory diseases: if you strictly follow the rules of the procedure, then the risk of adverse events is reduced to zero, and the effect can be felt already during the first day.