6 mistakes when treating colds and flu

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The arrival of winter means that you are more likely to catch a cold with uncomfortable feelings such as coughing, sneezing and sore throat even though you are equipped with warm clothes. However, not everyone knows how to properly treat colds and flu.

Here are 6 common mistakes when treating the flu:

1. Abstain from eating fats like eggs and milk when you have a cold

After having a cold, the body will lose its appetite, symptoms such as runny nose, cough, fever all increase energy consumption, if you don't increase nutrition and get enough energy, the longer the illness will heal. than.

Therefore, after having a cold, you must eat a lot of easily digested foods, the taste should be frugal, it is best to eat a lot of protein, vitamins and trace elements such as lean meat, eggs, vegetables, and fruits. helps to recover quickly.

2. Close the door, cover your head to sleep to sweat

This is an illusion, because after sweating the body seems to be lighter, but this cannot cure the disease.

When you have a cold, you will eat less, you will be physically weak, if you sweat a lot, it will easily cause dehydration and exhaustion, leading to a decrease in resistance, more serious illness.

3. A common cold does not need to be treated

The common cold is the main general health problem of people, but people ignore the treatment of the common cold, every year adults get 2-4 colds, the common manifestation is a sore throat. , stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing, watery eyes, fever, cough, headache, body aches...

If you have a cold, you should treat it properly

With these symptoms, it is necessary to actively and promptly treat, if not handled well, it can lead to some serious complications for the cardiovascular system such as myocarditis, pericarditis, respiratory, acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, acute glomerulonephritis, ENT, otitis media, sinusitis, pharyngitis...

These diseases can seriously affect your daily life, even life-threatening. Therefore, the flu should be promptly treated properly.

4. The flu is just a minor illness that doesn't need rest.

Medical practice proves, when you sleep less, work too hard, catch a cold, your resistance drops, bacteria and viruses will take advantage of this condition to invade the body, leading to disease.

Especially after a cold, if you don't pay attention to rest, pathogens are easy to penetrate into other parts, causing body infections such as purulent tonsillitis, purulent sinusitis, bronchitis caused by bacteria, disease. Patients also have more serious diseases such as pneumonia, myocarditis, nephritis...

5. The more you take cold medicine, the faster it will heal

Most people have the opinion that, after having a cold, using many drugs at the same time as antibiotics, pain relievers, fever reducers, vitamins, the disease will heal faster.

But this is a misconception because most common colds are caused by influenza viruses, antibiotics not only have no effect on viruses, but can also cause adverse reactions due to drug abuse.

6. When treating a cold, you can use a cold medicine at will

In fact, cold medicines are widely sold in the market, most of which are compound ingredients and different dosages, with different ingredients to treat different cold symptoms.

For different cold symptoms, you should choose a cold medicine corresponding to the active ingredients, not arbitrarily take one, nor arbitrarily increase the dose and duration of cold medicine.

Medicines for colds and flu all contain pain relievers and fever reducers, if taken together, can lead to an overdose.

The correct method when treating colds and flu

- When you have a cold, you must drink a lot of water, to accelerate the excretion of harmful substances out of the body and promptly replenish the lost water, which can improve the condition of the disease.

- Eat more fruits, increase vitamins to improve resistance.

- People with flu must pay attention to keeping warm while paying attention to air circulation in the room.

Sleep and rest are effective methods to restore health and shorten healing time.

According to the Internet