Reduce 80% of Influenza Symptom
Everyone used to get a cold and all what they can do is to take tablets and wait for the cold to go by. However some solutions can shorten the time you have to suffer from influenza from one week to 1 or 2 days.
Antibiotic, a wonderful remedy of human beings, has helped curing countless of infection but it has to give up when it come to influenza. Instead of waiting for the cold to go by, you can apply methods to lessen unpleasant signs of illness such as runny nose, sore throat, coughing, and sneezing to 20% in comparison to common illnesses
Using Vitamin C
Germs and viruses: Thanks to this use, Vitamin C is considered as one of the remedies for influenza treatment. It has the ability to shorten the time of influence bearing from 7 or 8 days to 2 or 3 days.
Besides, Vitamin C also helps to reduce unpleasant felling of influenza like coughing, sneezing, nasal congestion, running nose, blue feeling and other signs of influenza.
Taking an overdose of Vitamin C does not cause harm in a few days, but doctors advise that we should provide our body with this type of vitamin by eating a lot of orange fruits, grapefruit, lemon, or fresh heavy green vegetables instead of via tablets.
Using other substances
Zinc: can shorten the illness for a few days and ease the sore or raspy throat. This substance is contained in patent medicine sold at pharmacies. It's also manufactured into throat lozenges. There's no time limitation for this type of medicine provided that you take it within an amount of 50 milligrams per day. If you take an overdose of it(more than 1000 milligrams),zinc can become a poisonous substance.
Garlic: garlic medicine sold at pharmacies and fresh garlic both have the use of anti virus and shorten the length of influenza. However, fresh garlic is more effective.
Arhat fruit: this type of fruit is sold at almost every food market under the form of a bar or dissolves fruit. Its use is to digest sputum quickly. Normally after once or twice times taking this you can get rid of unpleasant sputum in your throat (these sputum usually cause aphonic, nasal congestion, and runny nose.)
Salt water
Wash your mouth with salt water. Dissolve half a spoon of salt into half a liter of warm water. While washing your mouth, turn upward to allow salt water to get into your throat, blow air to make sound in your throat and then split out. This action helps cleaning our throat, lessen nasal congestion, kill germs, and get rid of more sputum.
Drink hot tea or soup.
You should drink while they're still hot. Be careful not to let your mouth scalded-drink every small mouthful until you finish. This helps to clean your nose.
Bath in hot water
Stand while you take a bath in about 20 minutes with hot water helps to clean your nose and moderate body's temperature. This method has the same use as Vietnamese traditional exhalation.
Do not smoke
May be you used to undergo the unpleasant feeling of having a smoke while you're catching a cold and a sore throat. Besides this harmful effect, smoke from a cigarette can lengthen your illness.
Nasal decongestant
You should take anti histamine sold at pharmacies under the names of Sudafed Plus, Contact, Dimetapp, Cholotrimeton, etc. Anti allergy medicines such as nasal congestion, runny nose, weeping, allergy, and itching..Be careful while driving because these medicines may cause drowsy.
If you have a nasal congestion and want to temporarily clean your nose, you can take nasal spray, nasal drop etc within 3 days. After 3 days your nose can swell and nasal congestion can be worse.
Nasal decongestant is sold at pharmacies. Although it takes more time than spray drops, you can take it for more than 7 days without side effects.
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