With them should be cautious.
Psyllium to the knee, herbal tea for liver, potato inhalation for colds — traditional treatments there are for literally every disease.
Pharmacies many medications, but some people the old fashioned way of trying to treat people’s methods, believing that they are more useful than pharmaceutical chemistry. A particular effect in home remedies, of course, there are contraindications too much, warn doctors.
Potatoes to help
Traditional treatment for colds potato is considered to be inhalation. Older people will remember this “family fun” to sit around over a pan with boiled potatoes, which does “floats”, covered with a blanket, and breathe like that for about 15 minutes.
The meaning of the procedures are simple: first, it is inhalation, and secondly, potato steam contains a lot of valuable substances, and they enter through the respiratory tract into the body.
Doctors, however, this optimism is not shared. They believe that this method may be faster to broncho – or laryngospasm, and burns to respiratory tract and mucous membranes of the nasopharynx, and even the eye area. Often in response to such aggressive action edema of the larynx, and spasm occur. Especially these phenomena susceptible children. If the patient has a high temperature, he may even faint. But if people are sick of infectious disorders, tracheitis, bronchitis, sore throat, sinusitis etc., can further aggravate the situation. This procedure is contraindicated or dry cough — because the reason it might not have a cold.
You should consider that inhalation of various kinds only appoint a doctor. And it needs to recommend the means by which it should be done, duration, and periodicity. In addition, today is homemade inhalation of hot steam almost nobody uses, because there are a huge number of nebulizers and inhalers, which give a softer pairs.
With the arrival of cold weather and the first frost of infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract begin to activate. Acute respiratory infections with the arrival of autumn frosts are showing significant activity, increasing…
Oil burn
When you burn the first tool that is recommended by many, to smear the affected area with oil. And this popular recipe can lead to serious consequences.
Indeed, in such a situation the most important thing you can do in the first minutes, to reduce the degree of damage, which you need to cool the whole of the injured surface. The less deep will the affected area, the easier it will be to cure. But the use of oil as the time increases the injured area. Oil covers the wound film and enhances the effect of heat, creating a greenhouse effect, and also prevents the skin penetration of drugs intended for rapid healing of wounds.
The way first aid is not so complicated — the burn should be placed under cold water. To keep it in for 10 minutes, thus reducing the degree of damage. If there was an open wound, it needs to be treated with antiseptic.
The effect of soda
Soda today was literally the panacea for everything. With its help “lose weight”, “output” parasites “cure” the cancer. But the most you can often hear the recommendation to save soda for heartburn. However, many rely on the chemical properties of baking soda neutralize the acid in the stomach. And when it is received is formed in the stomach a chemical reaction, which is similar to the procedure for quenching of soda in cooking. By itself, the method is quite effective — the heartburn passes. However, it should be remembered that this method of treatment leads to serious complications. For example, the main problem is the level of acid in the stomach. After taking the soda level decreases, but then it begins to produce in large quantities. And if you apply the baking soda over and over again, produces dependence. In addition, excess acid corrodes the mucous membrane of the stomach, they become inflamed. And this is the easiest and fastest way to gastritis and more serious diseases of the digestive system.
The best option deal with heartburn will be everything that has a shielding effect, — oatmeal-gruel, jelly, and the necessary drugs from the treatment of heartburn.
Strong drinks
That it is necessary to drink tea with raspberries or you can use honey and lemon for colds. And this is one of the most popular tools. And indeed, some of the benefits of such a recommendation is. But only in cases if it is not too active. For example, to drink tea with raspberries all day is not recommended. Although it can really help fight a fever because raspberries includes salicylic acid, a kind of “natural aspirin”. But in combination with a hot drink this acid puts a lot of stress on the cardiovascular system.
As for the honey and lemon, the main danger of them is that they are the strongest allergens. In addition, the use of honey may have a negative impact on the health of people with diabetes.
