Proper Flu Treatment

At a time when people are sick with the flu, the number of those sent to hospitals increases more than 5 times. The biggest risk groups are the elderly, who can easily get the flu and find it harder to cure everyone, because their immune systems are significantly weakened. How to properly treat for flu and what kind of flu treatment to get sick as little as possible?

See also: Treatment of colds

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If not treated for the flu right?

In the first few days, after getting sick with the flu, a person must observe bed rest and drink plenty of warm liquid in order to relieve intoxication. Otherwise (due to intoxication, which occurs due to harmful decomposition of viral proteins), the whole body becomes weakened, all human systems function poorly. And then it can be fatal due to blood flow to the brain, complications of lung function, heart failure and vascular problems.

Among the list of fatal complications that can give influenza - Reine syndrome, encephalitis and meningitis (infectious diseases of the brain). Sinusitis, rhinitis, otitis media, bronchitis, bacterial infections - all this is also on the list of complications due to the flu. Besides the fact that the organs and systems of the body are weakened, this condition is also joined by a bacterial infection, which can be of hemophilic, pneumococcal and staphylococcal nature.

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What is recommended for flu?

Flu treatment should begin with isolation. First of all, you need to retire to a separate room away from everyone, especially from children, so as not to infect them with a viral infection. Adults can protect themselves from a sick person with a cotton-gauze bandage, which you can do yourself or buy at a pharmacy. It is necessary to change the bandage every three hours, because from the means of protection it will become a source of infection, if you keep it longer. Harmful viruses and bacteria that accumulate on the bandage will infect a person if the bandage is worn for more than three hours.

Vitamins to support immunity

To cope with the flu faster (this is good and as a means of prevention) you need to take ascorbic and vitamin complex, this will enable the immune system to work more powerfully.

Vitamin C (about which it is written rather contradictory, whether it helps with the flu or not) is found in abundance in lemons, rowan berries, cranberries, sauerkraut, grapefruits, and oranges. It can be taken for overall body tone and in order to help the immune system.

Natural phytoncides

It is very good if a person with the flu eats enough garlic - up to 3 teeth per day. No longer needed, because garlic not only kills bacteria and flu viruses, but can irritate the gastrointestinal tract, especially if it is weakened or affected by a chronic disease.

But the oral cavity can be cleaned with garlic fairly from bacteria. The same effect can have onions.

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Rinsing and rinsing

A person who has the flu should not rely only on the strength of his body and chemical preparations from the pharmacy. Since the treatment of influenza should be combined with the basic methods of personal hygiene, which will help to cope with the disease faster. It is enough to wash the nasal passages at least 2 times a day (a lot of pathogenic bacteria and mucus accumulate in them). To make the effect stronger, you can use soap for this purpose.

In addition to soap, in order not to irritate the nasal mucosa, it is very good to combine the infusion of onion with honey and bury the nose with a pipette. Juice is squeezed out of 3 tablespoons of chopped onion, it can be made with marlechka, then this juice is mixed with half a teaspoon of honey, add half a teaspoon of water, leave for half an hour. And here it is, ready bactericidal and drying agent for the flu for the nasal sinuses.

See also:  Nasal washing at home

How to gargle with flu?

With a strong congestion of the throat and dryness of the larynx mucosa, you can rinse it every hour throughout the day. To do this, dilute the solution of potassium permanganate or furatsilina or make a chamomile extract, or simply dilute the salt or soda with water. And deep throat, not swallowing, but spitting out water. Gargling kills bacteria and freshens the mouth.

In parallel, you can drink broth hips, raspberry tea (not store, but with real raspberry jam, because raspberry is a natural antibiotic). Tea with honey is very good (boiling water kills nutrients in honey if dissolved there) and tea with lemon. Such teas are especially good for a dehydrated body if a person suffers from high-temperature flu.

Warm foot baths with mustard (5 - 10 min.) Help very much, after which the feet are rubbed with a warming ointment.

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Foot baths

If a person does not have high fever, flu treatment can be combined with foot baths. They can be diluted with dry mustard - it not only helps to cope with a cold, but also lowers the pressure in hypertensive patients. Headache with the use of such baths they quickly passes.

After the bath it is good to wear warm knitted socks on your feet. In them, too, must be put a mustard plaster for warming the feet and leave it for the whole night. Only between the mustard plaster and the foot must be a layer of fabric, otherwise the mustard will burn the skin. This layer can be the second sock, but not knitted, but natural, from flax.

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Flu Cures

In case of flu, only a doctor should prescribe medications, because, firstly, it is important not to confuse a viral infection with a bacterial infection ( antibiotics against viruses do not work ) and secondly, it is important to use certain drugs for each disease. Usually, flu is taken with such drugs as panadol, coldrex, paracetamol - to reduce fever. To facilitate breathing, buy vasoconstrictor agents (drops or sprays).

In order to cough well off sputum, take mukaltin, medicines with licorice root, tinctures of medicinal herbs, for example, with eucalyptus or althea, bought at a pharmacy.

Treatment of influenza should be aimed at alleviating the condition when you cough, so you need to take a chest collection, bronholitin, pertussin, bromhexin. And to eliminate or alleviate allergic reactions to viruses and bacteria, they take antihistamine medicines, for example, suprastin or tavegil.

All these drugs work best against the background of receiving interferon or aflobin, which support the immune system well. The person recovers faster - according to reviews, much faster.

Flu treatment is not difficult, but it takes time, effort and certain skills. Therefore, if you have questions about how and what to treat for flu, it is better to consult your doctor than to make decisions yourself.