Quick help with cold
Strengthen defenses
Contrast showers: Get your circulation going - with interchangeable showers. First warm, then cold shower, that strengthens the immune system.
Sauna: Studies show that regular sauna visits, about once a week, protect against colds. Best all year round. If you do not feel like sweating in the sauna during the summer, you should start at the latest by the beginning of autumn and before the first cold wave.
To eat fruit: Provide your body with enough vitamins.
Proper clothes: Hat and scarf keep warm.
Avoid infection
Infection with cold viruses occurs through droplet infection. So you can reduce the risk of getting yourself:
Shake hands if possible, do without greetings.
Thoroughly hand washing after personal contacts.
Avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyesto prevent transmission of the viruses.
Ventilate regularly and keep the room air moist. Heating air dries out the nasal mucosa, making it susceptible to infection.
Help with cold
Fresh air Dress warmly and if possible walk for an hour a day. When lying down, breathing is shallow. In order to be able to exhale pathogens from the deeper areas of the lungs, you have to get some air. And best through the nose. At home, damp towels help with heating - and plenty of drinks.
Steam bath for the nose A steam bath intensively hydrates the respiratory tract. In addition, the damp heat dissolves even tight mucus and bark. The recipe is simple: fill a bowl with hot water and breathe in steam under a towel. Pure steam is enough, but if you like, you can also add essential oils, herbs such as chamomile and lime blossom or thermal salt. If the nose is completely closed, take ten minutes before the steam bath decongestant nose drops - so the steam has free rein.
Rising foot bath The heating goes up to five, you wear three pairs of thick stockings, and yet you shiver? This foot bath helps: fill a bucket ankle-high with pleasantly warm water, put feet in and slowly add hot water. After ten minutes, the water should be around 40 degrees and reach to the calves. Dry off your feet, put on warm socks and, ideally, straight to bed.
chicken soup Even if you can hardly taste it: A hot soup is good for a cold. And that's not just a feeling - the medicinal effectiveness of chicken soup has been proven. The hot, salted liquid also supports the circulation and promotes sweating.
Wadenwickel 38.5 degrees, possibly despite tablet? The classic calf wrap can lower fever. Moisten two cotton towels with cool water, wring out and place around the lower legs. Wrap with dry towels. Cover the patient well while the damp cloths absorb the fever heat. If necessary, change the reel every 10 minutes.
Wrap yourself healthy
Have you ever made wraps with onions, mustard flour or lavender oil? No? Try it, every addition has its strengths. The wraps help, for example, with earache, cough or bronchitis or ensure good mood.
onion compress When cooking we get to feel it: Onions are essential oils that spread very well in the room. That's why they also come from onion wraps to the ear, where they develop their circulation-promoting effect. If the pressure of the wrap on the ear is not unpleasant, onion wraps are therefore a good help for mild pain (severe earache is basically a case for the doctor). Preparation: cut an onion into thin slices and place on a soft cotton cloth. Turn the cloth over so that the slices are covered. Tap the wrap a little flat and put it on the ear. Even more intense acts a warm wrap with chopped onions, which have been briefly heated in a pan without fat.
Mustard flour wrap Too much mustard for bratwurst can burn quite nicely. Because mustard seeds contain sharp essential oils, which promote blood circulation. For coughs and bronchitis is desired, the heat facilitates coughing and well. With a chest wrap, it works directly in the right place. For this, spread a cotton cloth in the middle of the knife back thick with mustard flour (for example from the health food store) and fold it so that the flour is covered by two layers of fabric. Dip the resulting compress in lukewarm water, express and lay on the chest. Cover with a dry cloth and put on a woolen shirt.Attention: leave this wrap for a maximum of eight minutes. If you have sensitive skin, you better do without it.
Breast wrap with lavender The cough shakes them, it's cold and wet outside, and the mood could be better ... time for a feel-good wrap. Drizzle a warmed cotton cloth with a few drops of ten percent lavender oil and place on the chest; Cover with a woolen cloth or cover a woolen shirt. The scent of lavender oil is good and soothing.
