Avoiding coughing can not either adults or children, but, as it turned out, due to widespread speculation about it, getting rid of the misfortune can be very difficult. In erroneous opinions, let's understand together what is cold and other human diseases!
Cough is a disease
No, it is a symptom, a manifestation of the disease - influenza, acute respiratory infections, bronchitis, pneumonia , bronchial asthma, inhalation of foreign particles or dust. Its appearance can be considered an additional sign: the body signals a danger and tries to independently rebuff it. Each cough thrust is an attempt to expel foreign microorganisms.
By the way, fast and far. With a cold and cough, the rate of exhaled air is 20-25 times higher than the usual exhalation rate, and the bacteria scatter from sneezing and coughing to a distance of more than two meters. According to psychologists, coughing is also a sure way to attract attention, express displeasure or hide fear. Surely everyone had to watch when someone, nervous or angry, started to cough and rub the neck area.
Cough is only dry or only wet
Depending on the stage of the common cold and other human diseases, cough can go from wet to dry and vice versa. At first it is usually dry - it is almost impossible to restrain convulsive exhalations, exhausting and guaranteeing sleepless nights. The second stage is almost the completion of the process: mucus and sputum begin to flow from the bronchi and trachea, the cough becomes not so debilitating, the pain disappears in the chest, and it breathes more freely. But during the course of the disease, a coughing cough can return from the wet stage back to dry, for example, due to improper treatment or re-infection: the patient has not yet fully recovered, but has already managed to get acquainted with a new virus that returns everything on its way. Therefore, cough should be treated.
Painful, you must keep bed rest
Of course, running to work and standing in line with the temperature and runny nose, catarrh, cold and other human diseases means being an enemy to yourself and a source of infection for others. But cough is very fond of static: the posture "lying in front of the TV" makes it difficult to move away from sputum and mucus. But the frequent change of the position of the body during a cold up to the headstand, the prevailing posture of a half-sider or even a downward slope is a popular recommendation of therapists for getting rid of a cough.
Alcohol removes cough
With the opinion - supposedly spirits warm up the body and help get rid of colds and other human diseases and cough - doctors struggle for a long time and, unfortunately, so far unsuccessfully. The hot liquid to cough treatment has nothing to do, on the contrary - in a state of under-frost it is easy to overcool and get sick with flu or pneumonia. To be surprised: alcohol dilates the blood vessels, increasing the heat loss of the body. So drinking brandy or vodka with pepper in order to drive out viruses in diseases is at least useless.
During illness it is necessary to eat more
Have you noticed that often during a cold and other illnesses a person's appetite is gone? "How so?" - the uninformed "doctors" are indignant and stuff the sick man with all sorts of food, hoping with their help to the patient to add strength. In fact, there is no need to lean on food, it is an additional burden for the internal resources of the body: it will direct its efforts to digesting and assimilating food, and not to fight with a cough. After all, a decrease in appetite is nothing more than a saving of one's own strength. There are better small portions, giving preference to protein and carbohydrate foods.
The mask will help everyone
Colds and other human diseases provoke an unrestrained cough, viruses and microbes that are fond of everything around: door handles, bedding, carpets and a remote from the TV. True, in an open space, pests live only a couple of hours. But this is enough for them to settle on the mucosa of another victim. It is almost impossible to block them "going out into the light," and it's only necessary to cover up the infected person, and not close his mouth when coughing: mucus should be released freely from the respiratory tract at full exhalation. Therefore, the mask during the disease is recommended more for the household: if one of them is constantly at home, this attribute of protection should be changed every 3-4 hours. Colds and other human diseases can be prevented if you take any vitamins and ascorbic during the winter.