The autumn season for many women is associated not with the beauty of the passing summer, with crimson and gold leaf, but with a banal runny nose. Increased humidity, frequent drizzling rain and reduced air temperature predispose to colds and, consequently, nasal congestion. But it is not so difficult to defeat the runny nose - treatment at home in adults of this symptom lasts no more than 7 days. If you start therapy with the first signs of a cold, using effective means, you can facilitate breathing even faster.
Effective treatment of the common cold at home
To stop the inflammation of the mucous nasal can also without the use of vasoconstrictors and antibiotics, in most cases simple enough recipes from traditional medicine.
One of the most effective is the treatment of aloe cold in the home.
Classical remedy
Ingredients:
- pure aloe juice - 1 teaspoon;
- boiled water - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation and use
Mix the ingredients in a glass bowl. Shake the solution for 2 minutes. Bury in each nostril for 2-5 drops of liquid, up to 4 times a day.
Based on the above recipe, you can make a home solution with honey, adding the same amount of product (1 teaspoon) to the drug.
To relieve nasal breathing, to remove the inflammation of the mucous membranes and to eliminate the bacteria helps instill natural vegetable oils:
- menthol;
- fir;
- sea buckthorn.
Only 1-2 drops are enough to instantly improve your health.
Methods for treating a severe cold in the home
If the stuffiness of the nose torments for a long time and prevents sleep, and the contents of the sinuses do not leave on their own, an integrated approach is required:
- Warming. In the morning and evening, pouches with hot sea salt, rice or wheat for 10 minutes should be placed on the bridge of the nose and the area near the wings of the nose. With purulent inflammatory processes and high temperature, this technique is contraindicated.
- Flushing. The procedure helps to remove
congestion of mucus and sputum, cleanse the sinuses from bacteria, viral cells. Rinse the nose should be saline (5 g of sea salt per 500 ml of water) or antiseptic herbal solution. - Inhalations. It is recommended to use a nebulizer, but in the absence of a device, the usual technology is allowed - to breathe water vapor with the addition of essential oil of eucalyptus , tea tree, chamomile.
For instillations with a strong rhinitis in folk medicine, vegetable juices - onions, garlic, carrots, radishes are used. It is enough only 1-2 drops of freshly squeezed product per 1 tbsp. spoon of water.