Than and how to gargle with a cold?

Such an unpleasant thing, like an acute respiratory disease, happens practically with everyone, and regardless of the season. In the summer, fortunately, this happens much less often than in the autumn and winter, but even in the hot season, no one is immune from a cold.

As a rule, catarrhal phenomena are first accompanied by perspiration, scratching, and then severe pain in the throat, and in order to alleviate their condition, and in some cases not to allow the further development of the disease, it is first of all necessary to address to such a simple, but very effective reception as rinsing.

The question arises - how to gargle? On sale pharmacies have ready-made preparations, for example, "Rotokan" based on chamomile, calendula and yarrow, as well as all known alcohol tincture of calendula. You can use these drugs, because with their help you can prepare a solution for rinsing your throat in a matter of seconds - a certain amount of the drug is diluted with warm water (in particular, you need to take 1 teaspoon per glass of water), and the rinse solution is ready.

It is also good to gargle with the furacilin. You need to buy in the pharmacy tablets and dissolve 2 pieces (20 grams) in a glass of water. Furacilin is an excellent antimicrobial agent, and you will have enough glass for 2-3 rinses.

All these drugs can be used if there is no allergy to the components that make up their composition.

For the treatment and prevention of nasopharyngeal diseases, you can gargle with a solution of salt and baking soda. As a rule, take a teaspoon of salt and soda (without top) in a glass of water, and it is good to add a couple of drops of iodine (you get the so-called "sea water", do not overdo it with iodine, 2-4 drops is the norm).

Also from the simple, but effective tools used for gargling, you can advise a solution of apple cider vinegar. It should be diluted 1: 1 with water or slightly weaker.

Well, if you can alternate the solutions for gargling during the day. It is also important to start these procedures as soon as possible - as soon as you feel the first signs of discomfort. Gargle should be at least 3-4 times a day.

If the throat is already aching thoroughly, then most likely you will have to see the doctor. Along with other tools that the specialist will write out, rinses will not only not need to be canceled, but you should try to do them even more often - every 2-2.5 hours. By doing this, you will significantly reduce the number of harmful microbes that accumulate in the mouth and pharynx during the inflammatory process.

You can gargle other means, for example, diluted in water with beet or carrot juice with the addition of honey. But this is a little more laborious, especially if you have already started to rise temperature and do not have the strength to do some complicated manipulations with vegetables, and without helpers it's difficult even to force yourself to get out of bed.

The rinse solution should have a comfortable temperature for the inflamed larynx - not cold and not hot, but warm. In some cases, when the solution is prepared for several procedures and, of course, it will cool down, you just need to cast the right amount and before the procedure, put the glass for several minutes in another container (with hotter water), thus warming up to a comfortable temperature.

In conclusion, we will give some tips on how to properly do the gargling, that is, how to conduct the procedure itself.

During the rinse, we throw our heads back and, as it were, chant "a, o, s," and also pronounce the abrupt syllables "aga", "ogo", "uhu" - so that the seething water is washed as carefully as possible all available sections of the larynx.

One procedure should last at least one and a half minutes (that is, 3-4 times you need to take a solution and, holding your breath for 15-20-30 seconds, try to rinse everything that accumulated in the throat).

Do not be lazy to do such simple things and be healthy!