Everyone knows that inhalations are an excellent remedy for colds and coughs that help the body with the help of warming up and inhaling vapors with medicines to accelerate the recovery time and reduce the likelihood of complications.
But often doctors advise to wait with inhalation, and wait until the temperature starts to decrease. Some doctors allow inhalation even at a temperature, and this puts the person before a choice - whether to start immediate treatment, or still wait for the temperature to subside, and even then inflict a cold on the damage in the form of a healing couple.
Is it possible to do inhalation at a temperature?
Many doctors who adhere to the position not to conduct inhalation at a temperature, are of the opinion that this will give the body an extra burden.
Elevated temperature is a way of fighting the body against a cold. Many bacteria and viruses are difficult to tolerate the conditions of high temperatures, and therefore at an elevated temperature their quantity decreases. But, at the same time, the immunity of many people is not strong enough, and therefore during illness the temperature rises to insignificant levels and is kept within the subfebrile. If this happens against the background of severe complications - a runny nose and a cough, then it means that the immune response is inadequate, and it needs help.
Thus, inhalation at elevated temperature is possible, but given that the patient does not maintain a high temperature.
Inhalations at a temperature of 37 can be carried out if it is done by moderately hot steam. After the inhalation, a temporary increase in temperature is possible, and this is not a side effect.
Here, when it is possible to do inhalations at low temperature:
- after the first two days of illness, when the acute phase of high fever stops, and there is a subfebrile condition;
- when there is a strong wet cough and runny nose;
- provided that the patient will not breathe cold air after the procedure.
Do inhalations at high temperature?
Inhalation at high temperature can not be carried out if hot steam is used. This will lead to an increase in temperature, and you may need hospitalization to bring down the temperature .
If you inhale during high temperatures, it will give the body an extra burden, which can lead to complications. The temperature regulation in the body takes into account a variety of factors, and if it is artificially increased during a high temperature, it will lead to a malfunction in the system.
Here, when it is possible to carry out inhalations at a temperature of 38:
- if you perform inhalation with a nebulizer, then it makes it possible to do the procedure not hot, but warm; In this case, inhalation can be carried out without fear of a temperature increase;
- in extreme cases, if cough becomes the main harmful symptom, inhalation at high temperature can be carried out in the daytime (so as not to leave the patient at night, during sleep unattended after inhalation), after lowering the temperature with medications.
If the temperature rises after inhalation 37
When the temperature rises, it means that the immune system is activated. When the temperature rises after inhalation, pay attention to the inhalation solution. Probably, this is the action of a substance by which inhalation has been carried out.
If the inhalation was carried out with hot steam, it means that the body warmed up, and therefore the temperature increased.
To lower the temperature, increased after inhalation, take one of the antipyretic drugs - Efferalgan Oops, Aspirin (not recommended for an empty stomach), mefenamic acid.
Remember that it is undesirable to lower not very high body temperature with medication, since this is a way of fighting against viruses and microbes.