Pour the mustard into the socks with mustard for colds - a common folk method of treatment. Is it effective? What do doctors think about this? Does the mustard harm children? Let's try to understand.
Distracting procedure or real treatment?
It has been known for a long time that almost every ARVI lasts an average of 5 to 7 days. This is due to biological processes, as a result of which antibodies are produced in the body and interferon is formed. Prove that it is poured dry to the children in socks dry mustard helped get rid of cough or a cold, it is impossible! However, its inefficiency is difficult to prove. And that's why.
Mustard, acting as an irritant, warms the legs of the baby, that is, there is a thermal effect on the feet. From heat, the blood vessels expand, the blood circulation becomes more active. The feet are reflexogenic zones, so the cold leads to nasal congestion, and the heat, respectively, to the restoration of breathing with the nose. But! The body temperature with ARVI rises and without mustard, because the body is struggling with inflammatory processes. That is why at elevated temperature the use of mustard, poured into socks by a baby or an older child is contraindicated! Otherwise, you risk aggravating the inflammatory process.
When you notice that the disease has begun to recede and recovery is just around the corner, you need to use mustard and you need it. Strengthening blood circulation will have a positive effect, speeding up recovery and healing of inflamed tissues.
Contraindications
You can not use reflexology (and dry mustard in socks refers to them) for acute infectious diseases and for the treatment of children who have not yet turned a year old. In the first case, mustard can cause dangerous complications, and in the second, its effect is unpredictable. The fact is that reflexes in babies can not be called stable. The standard procedure, known to our great-grandmothers, may not have the same effect on the children's organism as expected.
Do not use mustard powder in the presence of the following diseases or their symptoms:
- increased body temperature;
- rash allergic and of any other origin;
- dermatitis.
If to sum up, the use of mustard powder is a method that does not bring any harm, nor special benefit. If you can not just observe the completely regular and physiological course of colds in your baby, then distract yourself from negative thoughts with this simple procedure.