With the arrival of colds and temperature changes, our body is prone to a decrease in immunity and a different respiratory disease. As a result, a runny nose and cough appear. One of the effective measures are inhalations with cough, due to which you can significantly accelerate the recovery period.
What are inhalations?
Inhalation is the process of introducing drugs into the human body through the respiratory tract. It can be of two types:
- natural;
- artificial.
Natural inhalation is very simple and easy. To do this, add the medicines, herbs, oils to the boiling water and inhale the emerging steam with the mouth. In order to enhance the effect, it is best to cover yourself with a towel.
With artificial inhalation, special devices are used, which are called nebulizers. The medicine you pour into the machine is sprayed under pressure.
Methods for treating cough with inhalation
It's no secret that cough can be dry and wet. With a dry cough, inhalations should help to get phlegm, and in the future - its withdrawal from the body. When wet coughing is used funds that contribute to the rapid escape of sputum. You can choose a medicine for inhalation from cough, depending on your preferences. It can be oily infusions of herbs, antiseptics or herbal infusions. All of them are effective and, undoubtedly, will accelerate the process of recovery.
There are several treatment options.
Inhalations with soda on coughing
For this procedure, you need:
- Dissolve in 1 liter of water 2 tablespoons of soda.
- Inhalation of vapor is recommended within 10 minutes. Breathing should be calm, since too frequent and deep breaths can cause an attack of coughing.
This procedure is great for dry cough, and also helps to dilute and exit the sputum.
Inhalation with saline during coughing
One-percent saline solution is recommended for those people who have allergic reactions to medicines and herbs. Fizrastvor is so delicate that it can be used for the treatment of a child. If desired, you can buy it at the pharmacy, where it is prepared according to all standards, without impurities. You can cook it at home. To do this, dilute in a liter of water 100 grams of pure salt. Due to this inhalation with a wet cough, the sputum is removed faster.
Inhalation with herbs
For the treatment of cough, it is very useful to make procedures based on herbs. The main herbs for inhalation from cough:
- St. John's wort;
- thyme;
- calendula ;
- raspberries;
- mint;
- Bay leaf;
- chamomile;
- linden flowers.
You can make whole collections. For example, procedures with raspberries, peppermint and sage are very useful.
How to do inhalation for cough?
Recommendations that will help to conduct the procedure safely and effectively:
- Inhalation should be done at least an hour and a half after eating.
- Clothes should be as free as possible, especially on the neck, so that breathing is not difficult.
- The exhalations should not be too deep and intermittent, so as not to burn the airways.
- Do not under any circumstances carry out the procedure over boiling water, as this can lead to coughing and burns.
- When drawing up fees or solutions with essential oils, you should carefully observe the proportions in order to avoid overdose.
- Be sure to pay attention to the composition of the inhalation. Some components can cause allergic reactions in the patient.
- For adults, the duration of the procedure should not exceed 3 minutes, and for children - a minute. The frequency of inhalation varies from 3 to 5 per day.
- After all the actions taken, you need to lie down for half an hour and not talk.
Do not inhale people:
- with increased temperature;
- patients with heart failure;
- suffering from hypertension;
- prone to bleeding from the nose.