How to cure a throat quickly and effectively?

A sore throat causes a lot of trouble: it is difficult to talk, swallow food. Perspiration, burning, pain in the nasopharynx can even lead to loss of voice. How to quickly cure a throat at home without the use of medications is of interest to many patients. This is our article.

The throat can hurt with various diseases. It can be not only tonsillitis or tonsillitis. Pharyngitis, laryngitis, mononucleosis cause pain and irritation of the larynx, and scarlet fever or measles can cause trouble for the child.

The use of improper treatment can give a complication to the kidneys, liver, heart, joints. To avoid this, you need to pay attention to your condition, if other signs of the disease have appeared: rash, fever and cough. If you notice symptoms of other diseases in yourself or your children, call the doctor at home.

But it also happens that a sore throat is a sign of normal hypothermia, as a result of which you caught a little cold, because the season of colds will not end in any way.

It is easier to catch an infection and a temperature in the midst of spring than in winter. At positive temperatures, viruses are activated, infecting the body, which by spring experiences beriberi and a decrease in immunity. In order for the methods of treating the throat in this case to be effective, a whole range of measures is needed.

What measures should we take to alleviate the condition at home?

  1. Observe bed rest;
  2. Strengthen immunity with vitamins;
  3. Drink as much liquid as possible per day (at least 2 liters);
  4. Use rinses;
  5. Apply inhalation;
  6. Make compresses;
  7. Use aromatherapy methods.

If the throat is tickling, following all measures helps to get rid of the disease in 1 day.


Why bed rest is important

Banal colds, acute respiratory infections, acute respiratory viral infections, flu, runny nose and red throat with improper treatment can lead to serious complications. The virus is attacking the muscles of the heart, nervous tissue, almost all organs, because together with the blood, microorganisms are carried throughout the body. An infection that has not been fully cured can lurk in any tissue.

To avoid complications such as myocarditis, pneumonia, bronchitis, otitis, myositis, arthritis, it is important to lie in bed during colds. On the first day, you can even refuse to eat. The body should spend its energy on fighting viruses, not on digesting food. For the same reason, we must abandon any load during movement.

If you have a sore throat, spend at least a couple of days in bed. No need to go, do household chores, and even more so go to work. Call for help relatives, your relatives, friends, girlfriends to help look after the children and take care of you. In this case, you will quickly get rid of unpleasant symptoms.

We activate immunity

You can get a cold or an annual virus not only in spring and winter, almost all 365 days a year we can be attacked by microorganisms and the speed of recovery depends on the state of our immunity. How to raise immunity folk remedies?

This requires vitamins that are found in vegetables, fruits, herbs, root crops, but since it hurts to swallow, we use the following recipes:

  1. Vitamin C - it is useful for the immune system, in addition, with a sore throat, ascorbic acid kills the infection in the nasopharynx. You can simply chew the lemon along with the peel, sprinkling it with a little sugar or dipping it in honey;
  2. Ginger root - if the throat hurts, ginger can be chewed in the same way as lemon along with honey or sugar;
  3. Brew lemon with ginger with boiling water, insist, add honey or sugar, then drink in small sips all day;
  4. Rosehip - you need to cook it in a thermos, make an infusion of rosehips and take it during the day;
  5. Freshly squeezed juices - can be made from any fruits, vegetables. Juice not only from fruits and berries is useful for immunity. You can use carrots and apples or carrots and beets.


Herbal preparations are also easy to boost immunity and help your body cope with the disease quickly and effectively. To do this, we use mint, lemon balm, echinacea, basil, anise, ginseng root, ginger.

We take herbs and root crops in arbitrary proportions, prepare an infusion or decoction from them, you can use a thermos. If you add honey to the finished tea, it will only be more useful.

We drink more liquid

It should be clear to everyone here that drinking plenty of water helps to remove the viruses that we are fighting and their waste products, that is, toxins, from the body.

To make teas, we use all the herbs and berries that we harvested in summer and autumn: St. John's wort, Ivan tea, tarragon, thyme, lime blossom. Dried and frozen raspberries and strawberries can be added to tea. In addition, plant leaves are also used.

Few people know that the leaves of raspberries, black currants, cherries, strawberries are no less beneficial than the berries of these plants. For vitamin teas, even dried carrot tops, which are usually thrown away, can be used. The use of a green pharmacy will help in the treatment and enrich the body with vitamins.

What else to drink if your throat hurts

  • milk - it is desirable to drink this product hot, add honey, ginger, butter to milk, which can be replaced with cocoa butter or natural coconut oil. When a child has a sore throat, this product becomes indispensable;
  • cranberries - you can make a fruit drink from berries. To do this, knead them with a blender, squeeze the juice. Boil the squeezed berries together with water for 5 minutes, adding sugar. After that, the broth is mixed with the previously squeezed juice. We drink the resulting fruit drink in small sips several times a day.

Combining useful ingredients in different ways, you will get teas of a unique taste that you will never get tired of. Fans of this drink can cook herbal teas all winter and drink for, as well as to strengthen immunity.


rinses

Why do you need to gargle with viral infections? With such a simple procedure, we moisturize the nasopharyngeal area and get rid of mucus. The main thing in this method is the effect of the liquid, it does not matter at all what you add to the water, any rinse will help to improve the condition.

  1. The classic way to irrigate the nasopharynx and tonsils is with a solution that is close in composition to sea water. To prepare it, you need to take a teaspoon of salt, soda, add 250 ml of water and drop 2 drops of ordinary iodine tincture into the solution, with which we lubricate wounds;
  2. You can rinse the nasopharynx with decoctions of chamomile, coltsfoot, eucalyptus, elder flowers, sage, calendula;
  3. Use a decoction of onion peel - prepare a concentrated burgundy solution and gargle with it several times a day;
  4. Solutions with vitamins are well suited for rinsing, you can make such a solution from lemon, cranberries, blackcurrants: brew with hot water, insist, add a teaspoon of soda for alkalization.

Do not forget that rinsing with inflammatory diseases of the nasopharynx and larynx (pharyngitis, laryngitis) does not have a therapeutic effect. They only help to alleviate the condition, relieve pain when swallowing. And one more rule of rinsing: before lunch, the nasopharynx is irrigated every half hour, and after lunch, before bedtime, every hour.

Inhalations and compresses

These procedures should not be used at elevated body temperature, which occurs with inflammation of the respiratory tract. Bacteria cause inflammation and are treated with antibiotics. Thermal methods are used only after the inflammatory process is suppressed, the temperature is reduced.

  1. We do inhalations for the larynx using a water container and a large towel or blanket, you can use it. If your throat hurts, inhalation with potato peels will help;
  2. An adult can make a vodka or semi-alcohol compress: for this, we moisten a piece of cloth with vodka, apply it to the neck area, put cellophane or parchment paper on top, then cotton wool. Each subsequent layer should be larger than the previous one, we fix the compress with a bandage, you need to keep it all night.

It is better not to do alcohol compresses for a child of one year and children under 12 years old, as their skin is very delicate. In order not to get a burn, such methods should be abandoned. If the child is 2 years old, you can make an oil compress from any kind of oil (eucalyptus, fir, olive). Apply such a warm compress on the neck and keep for 15-20 minutes.


Other Methods

To alleviate the condition with a viral infection, aroma therapy will help. To do this, use onion, garlic, eucalyptus, fir or pine oil. The phytoncides contained in these plants are useful to inhale for colds, sore throats and runny noses.

Onions and garlic are chopped with a knife, put in a room on a plate. Their aromas have a beneficial effect on the nasopharyngeal mucosa. They do the same with oils, they are dripped into the water and the container is left open in the room where the sick person is.

bitter radish

When the symptoms of the disease appeared in a pregnant woman, she can be helped by infusion of radish with honey. To do this, you need to take a black radish, wash it, put it steadily on a saucer, cut out the middle from it without removing the peel. Then fill the cut space with honey, leave to infuse.

Very soon you will see that the radish is mixed with honey, a syrup has formed. It should be taken in a teaspoon 3-4 times a day. As you take the syrup by a teaspoon, new juice will stand out in the radish, honey can be added.

If during pregnancy you need to quickly get rid of the symptoms of a sick nasopharynx, then rub the radish on a grater, squeeze out the juice, then mix it with honey. This miraculous method can also be applied to children. If the child is 3 years old, you can give radish juice infused with honey several times a day. In addition, the method relieves children from coughing.


Horseradish, onion, mustard

How else can you treat the larynx in order to save yourself or your child from discomfort, perspiration and sore throat in a day?

  1. Grate the peeled horseradish root, add a glass of water, a teaspoon of honey, a little cloves or cinnamon. Drink the drink in small sips at a time;
  2. Onion syrup - finely chop the onion, add honey, leave for 3-4 hours. Then squeeze the juice through gauze or a sieve, add lemon juice, take it 3 times a day;
  3. If the child is 4 years old, you can use the bow in a different way. Cut the vegetable into half rings, put the onion in thin socks, put on the child, warm socks on top, it is good to do the procedure at night, but you can do it during the day;
  4. Dry mustard - it can also be put in socks for children and adults, you can use dry mustard plasters for this.

In addition, this remedy is well suited for soaring legs. Pour the mustard into a bowl of hot water or put a few mustard plasters there, soak your feet for 15-20 minutes, adding hot water when it cools (do not use the method at elevated temperatures).

Drawing conclusions

At home, you can quickly and effectively get rid of pain, perspiration in the larynx, if the disease is caused by common seasonal viruses. When a bacterial infection joins, inflammation of the tonsils, larynx, and nasopharynx appears. Home treatment will not be effective and may even be harmful.

You should not figure it out on your own: you have a viral or bacterial infection, it is better to contact specialists. And do not forget, please, that with an increase in body temperature, no warming procedures can be done.

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