Even if you have never used turpentine ointment, you probably know about its existence. The popularity of the facility is acquired thanks to a variety of useful properties and affordable price. Turpentine ointment has a disinfecting, irritating, analgesic and distracting effect, so the drug has a wide application.
Indications for the use of turpentine ointment
Turpentine ointment has a lot of indications for use, which at first glance seem to have been committed is not similar. First of all, the ointment is prescribed for rheumatism and radiculitis . After all, analgesic and distracting effects - this is exactly what you need to facilitate the course of the disease and for a speedy recovery in this case.
Also, the medicine is successfully used to treat arthralgia, myalgia , neuritis and neuralgia. Useful properties, which possesses turpentine ointment, are favorably influenced not by the human body, by helping other medicines that are used for treatment, to relieve the sick from the disease.
Terpentine is made from coniferous resins, most of which is raw from pine trees. Irritant and distracting action can warm up the necessary area (for example, bronchi) and distract the nervous system by entering into it two streams of irritation. Thus, turpentine ointment is successfully used and with a cold.
How does a turpentine ointment work when coughing and bronchitis?
Despite the fact that the drug's instructions state that the medicine is an effective tool for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory system diseases, ointment has gained popularity relatively recently as a cough medicine. Today, women use this inexpensive and affordable drug for the treatment of bronchitis in the whole family.
At first glance it may seem strange to apply turpentine ointment when coughing, but the beneficial properties and substances that make up the drug easily confirm this indication. Ointment is created on the basis of turpentine oil (turpentine), the advantage of which is easy penetration through the epidermis.
After rubbing with the ointment of the patient, you should thoroughly wash your hands with soap. This is necessary so that the drug does not get into the eyes, on the lips or on the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Since the ointment has a warming effect, it is worth remembering one very important rule: you can not use the drug when the patient has a temperature higher than normal, otherwise it can rise even higher.
So, for treatment it is necessary:
- Spread the chest, heels and back (area between the shoulder blades) with ointment. It must be well rubbed, since high-quality rubbing promotes the rapid heating of these areas of the body, and hence the entire body.
- After that, you should put the patient in bed and cover with a warm blanket.
- To strengthen the heating effect, you can supplement the procedure with hot tea with raspberries or lemon.
Contraindications to the use of turpentine ointment
Turpentine ointment has a number of contraindications, which should be taken into account when applied, so as not to provoke the side effects of the drug. So, the ointment can not be used in the presence of the following diseases:
- kidney pathologies;
- hepatic pathology;
- infectious and fungal skin diseases.
Also, doctors prohibit treatment with turpentine ointment for pregnant and lactating women, since aggressive substances contained in turpentine oil can adversely affect the health and development of the child.
When applying ointment for children and adolescents, you need to be careful, since the safety of the ointment is not fully investigated, and there is a risk of an unexplained side effect. Therefore, it is worth starting with small doses, and if the negative reaction of the body did not follow, then the ointment can be used to the fullest.