How to strengthen a child's loose throat folk methods. Alternative Methods for Hardening the Throat. Contraindications for procedures

1. "Horse". Click your tongue loudly and quickly for 10-30 seconds.
2. "Crow". Say "Ka - aa - aa - ar." Take a look in the mirror at the same time. Try to raise the soft palate and small tongue as high as possible. Repeat 6-8 times. Try doing it silently.
3. "Ring". Tightly sliding the tip of the tongue across the palate, try to reach the small tongue. Do this with your mouth closed several times.
4. "Lion". Reach out with your tongue to your chin. Repeat several times.
5. "Yawning". Yawning is easy to artificially induce. So call several times in a row as gymnastics for the throat. Yawn with your mouth closed, as if hiding your yawn from others.
6. "Tube". Pull out the lips with a tube. Rotate them clockwise and counterclockwise. Reach your lips to your nose, then to your chin. Repeat 6-8 times.
7. "Laughter". While laughing, put your hand on your throat, feel how tense your muscles are. A similar tension is felt during the performance of all previous exercises. Laughter can also be caused artificially. From the point of view of muscle work, it doesn't matter if you laugh or just say "ha-ha-ha". Artificial laughter will quickly awaken high spirits, lead to natural fun.

The normal state of the vocal apparatus is when all mucous membranes are moistened. Runny nose, dry mucous membranes, inflammation of the nasopharynx often knock us out of working condition, strongly influence and change the internal sensations used by the singer, disorient these sensations.

In such states, it is impossible to work with the voice. One must be able to cope with ailments, take effective measures at the first symptoms of the disease in order to quickly return to working condition. It is even better to learn to prevent diseases with all kinds of preventive measures.

The next chapter will be a small "medical guide" of first aid.

Of course, it is necessary to be treated under the supervision of a doctor, but there are often situations that a person must be able to competently take some measures before consulting a doctor.

Very often we hear the phrase: "Catarrhal state." What is a catarrh?

Catarrh is an inflammation of the mucous membranes, accompanied by their redness, swelling, formation and release of fluid (clear, mucous, purulent).

Katarr - from the Greek katarreo - I flow. Catarrh can be catarrhal, infectious.

Catarrhs are:
1. top respiratory tract(rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, tracheitis);
2. bronchi (bronchitis).

The most common disease of the nasal mucosa is rhinitis (in popular use - a runny nose). The best remedy to prevent acute catarrhal rhinitis- hardening of the whole organism. The cause of a runny nose is a cold, cooling. This reduces the body's resistance to fighting infection.

Sometimes, with acute rhinitis, the process can go to the mucous membranes of the paranasal sinuses, which is called sinusitis. An example of sinusitis is a common inflammation of the maxillary sinus - sinusitis, and inflammation frontal sinus- frontal.

Frequently recurring runny nose can become chronic. This happens when the body's resistance to infection is weakened due to recent other diseases (for example, influenza); when a person is in conditions of a sharp change in temperature and inhales either cold or hot air; when inhaling dusty air, polluted with smoke, gas.

Often there is an atrophic rhinitis, which causes discomfort dryness and accumulation of crusts in the nose and nasopharynx, and sometimes dullness of the sense of smell and its complete loss.

This is due to malnutrition of the tissues of the nose due to improper function of the autonomic nervous system. The same reason causes hypertrophic rhinitis, in which nasal conchas grow and stuff the nose.

The treatment of a runny nose should be carried out by a doctor, since a runny nose can be the first manifestation of other common diseases (measles, influenza, and others).

First aid:
with inflammation of the nasal mucosa, a menthol pencil is very helpful. Distracting procedures are good for nasal congestion:
1. hot foot baths;
2. mustard plasters for calves, feet;
3. 1-2% solution of ephedrine, 5 drops in each nostril, after 2-3 hours;
4. 1 % menthol oil 5 drops, 3 times a day;
5. inhalation of streptocide powder through the nose.

The rule of instillation of drops into the nose: drip the medicine into the nostril and tilt your head to the shoulder in the same direction.

The rule for cleaning the nose with a runny nose: in case of acute rhinitis, especially when the nose is completely blocked, you should not blow your nose.

At this time, there are many pathogenic microbes in the nose or nasopharynx. When you blow your nose, mucus can pass from the nasopharynx into the middle ear (through the Eustachian tube), and thus cause otitis media. If the nose is not completely stuffed up, the mucus is blown out slightly, without pressure, alternating emptying of the left and right nostrils.

If healthy person there is a need to blow your nose, then at the same time you need to keep your mouth half open and carefully release first one and then the other nostril.

Inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa - pharyngitis.
With this disease, unpleasant sensations arise: scratching, burning in the throat, dry cough.
Almost always, this inflammation captures the larynx to one degree or another.
The occurrence of pharyngitis contributes to any frequently repeated irritation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx. Irritants: smoking, alcohol, too hot and spicy food, too much cold food and drinks, temperature fluctuations, dust.

First aid:
1. Systematic gargling alkaline solutions(1 teaspoon drinking soda and 1 teaspoon of glycerin per glass boiled water).
2. Alkaline-oil inhalations, but not hot, but warm (hot ones are only harmful for pharyngitis).
3. When coughing, you can take libexin, glauvent or other antitussives orally.

Angina - inflammation of the tonsils.
The disease occurs in damp, cold weather, and, as an infectious disease, is easily transmitted by communication from a sick person to a healthy one. During a sore throat, a person experiences malaise, headache, fatigue, fever. It is necessary to be treated by a doctor, since complications are not uncommon in this disease (inflammation of the middle ear, rheumatism, damage to the inner lining of the heart - endocarditis).

First aid:
1. Bed rest until the temperature drops.
2. Warm, liquid food, so as not to injure the inflamed throat, drink plenty of water ( warm tea with lemon, borjomi).
3. Warm compresses on the neck.
4. Gargle with disinfectant solutions: boric acid (1 teaspoon per glass of water), rivanol (0.1% solution), gramicidin (1 ampoule per 1 glass of boiled water), salt and iodine (1 teaspoon of soda + 2-3 drops of iodine in 1 glass of water), infusion of eucalyptus or chamomile (warm), hot St. Rinse with warm infusion.
5. Monitor the intestines so that there is no constipation (beets, prunes).
6. At a high temperature before a doctor's visit:
streptocide 0.5 g 4 times a day, antibiotics (oletethrin, tetracycline, tetramycin, biseptol).

Good advice: gargle should be without any tension, trying at these moments to pronounce melodious vowels (A, O, E, I, U). The shape of the mouth and pharynx changes for different vowels. This contributes to the washing of places in the folds of the mucosa, inaccessible with one vowel. There is an opinion that if you put an easily disinfectant liquid in your mouth (a mixture alkali salts, a weak solution of rivanol or boric acid) and leave it on little time in a completely calm state with a significantly thrown back head, then this works much better than an actively produced rinse.

I will give a few more recipes for the treatment of angina. Rinsing:

# In equal proportions (1:1:1) take chamomile, eucalyptus and calendula in 1 tablespoon of the mixture and boil for 2 minutes in 1.5 glasses of water. Then insist 30 minutes in a warm place and strain. Gargle 2 times a day (morning and evening), dividing the infusion in half. Start at 20 degrees Celsius, gradually reduce 1 degree, bringing to 16 degrees. Then rinse with an infusion of 16 degrees Celsius for a month.
# Daily chew calamus root 5-6 times a day in a small piece. Keep a piece in your mouth for 15-20 minutes. After six months - a year of such treatment, sore throats disappear forever.
# With angina (at the beginning) chew a piece of lemon with zest. After that, do not eat anything for an hour, so as not to wash off the essential oils and acid. Repeat after 3 hours.

Chronic tonsillitis is a chronic inflammation of the palatine tonsils, which develops as a result of frequent tonsillitis.
The course of the disease during exacerbation of chronic inflammation is accompanied by high temperature, abscesses in the throat, changes in the general condition: headache, lethargy, decreased work capacity. Treatment is carried out only by doctors.

Out of exacerbation give positive effect: lubrication of the tonsils (lugol), removal of plugs, rinsing, physiotherapy. If conservative methods of treatment are not successful, they resort to surgical intervention, which does not affect the quality of the voice.

Laryngitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx and the vocal cords themselves. The disease can be caused by hypothermia, infection, as well as overstrain of the vocal cords, excessive stress.
The inflammatory process can go to the mucous membrane of the nose and pharynx, more often vice versa.

Symptoms: perspiration, sore throat, hoarseness, loss of voice, cough (first dry, then with phlegm), malaise, headache, sometimes fever.

Prolonged course of the disease, prolonged loss of voice. Treatment is always under the supervision of a physician.

First aid:
1. Elimination external causes that caused laryngitis (cold food, drink, damp, cold, dusty air, smoking, alcohol).
2. Reduction or complete exclusion of voice load - silence.
3. Alkaline warm inhalations several times a day (warm, not hot).
4. Mustard plasters on the neck, back, legs.
5. Warm compresses on the neck.
6. Rinsing, greasing, hot mulled wine.
7. At elevated temperatures - bed rest, doctor's call.

Tracheitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea.
This disease is very common in people of "voice" professions, since excessive vocal load leads to irritation of the tracheal mucosa, which makes it more susceptible to infection, colds, temperature fluctuations, drafts.

With tracheitis, the mucous membrane swells, the voice function is disturbed with unchanged vocal cords. There is a cough with sputum, sometimes very viscous and difficult to cough up, fatigue, hoarseness, intonation inaccuracy, dryness, scratches, burning in the throat when trying to sing.

It matters which part of the trachea is inflamed. The voice function suffers especially in subglottic tracheitis. First aid is the same as for laryngitis.

In protracted cases, the doctor prescribes quartz, sollus, UHF, electrophoresis (with potassium iodide on the larynx), expectorant mixtures. Some doctors argue that in addition to infectious tracheitis, there may be tracheitis due to a sharp increase in intrabronchial pressure when forcing the voice, when screaming, breathing overload, and improper singing.

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchial mucosa. The disease is often accompanied by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract (nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea). Bronchitis can be caused by an infection, a cold, an unfavorable environmental situation (gas pollution, dustiness). The weakening of the body due to past diseases can also contribute to the occurrence of bronchitis, adverse conditions work, life and bad habits(alcoholism, smoking).

Bronchitis is often preceded by a runny nose, hoarseness, tickling in the throat, then a cough, at first dry, rough, with scanty expectoration. Soon a feeling of rawness behind the sternum joins, aggravated by coughing.

After a few days, expectoration becomes easier, sputum is copious, mucopurulent. First first aid as in laryngitis and tracheitis. Treatment is mandatory under the supervision of a physician in order to prevent the transition to chronic form and lung complications.

Flu. This disease most often affects the upper respiratory tract and incapacitates primarily "voice workers". We must be able to take precautions, especially during epidemics.
1. Of course, avoid, if possible, contact with patients. Do not use catering.
2. It is useful to rinse the mouth and throat at least 3-4 times a day with a solution of potassium permanganate (a small grain per 1 cup of boiled water) or a solution of rivanol (1: 4000), or a solution of boric acid and table salt(1/2 teaspoon per 1 cup of boiled water).
3. Special medicines and flu vaccines help prevent the disease. A good anti-flu serum is in the form of a powder that is inhaled through the nose.

Tip: Handkerchiefs of a person with the flu should first be boiled and then washed. It is better to use tissues and then throw them away. This reduces the possibility of transmission of infection. Very effective gauze bandages or lack of contact with the patient.

We have already found out that the causes of any "voice" troubles are different. They are eliminated under the supervision and with the help of a doctor, but the most important thing is the patient's thoughtful, serious attitude towards his "voice" problems. The doctor gives prescriptions for treatment, and the patient fulfills them, and success depends on his organization and conscientiousness. First, therapeutic, medical, physiotherapeutic methods of treatment are applied, and then voice reduction.

This treatment is carried out only under the supervision of a physician, but it is necessary that people suffering from voice disorders be aware of the existence of such treatment.

The basis of the reduction are classes, consisting of a number of exercises of sequential complexity for the respiratory, articulatory and vocal systems.

The purpose of phonopedic classes is to instill and consolidate the correct voice-speaking skills and restore the disturbed balance between various departments voice device. Improvement occurs after 3-4 months of classes. The system of applied exercises pursues the goal of free, easy sounding, clarity of pronunciation without breath overload.

Teeth.
bad teeth- this is not aesthetically pleasing at all, but for a person speaking to an audience - this is simply unacceptable.
Bad teeth are real opportunity the acquisition of various psychological complexes, this is bad diction.
Bad teeth mean bad digestion, as food enters the stomach unprepared, not chewed.
Bad rotten teeth- it is a source of infections for all mucous membranes oral cavity and upper respiratory tract.
It is necessary to constantly monitor the doctor and timely treatment.

Ears.
Any ear disease that has arisen among professionals (people of vocal professions) should attract the attention of phoniatrists no less than any disease of the vocal apparatus. Be sure to immediately see a doctor: any otitis media (inflammation of the middle ear) can turn into chronic if you start the disease. Otitis can also be a complication after other diseases.

What should be done for pain in the ear before showing the doctor?
1. Put a swab with boric alcohol in your ear (simple alcohol, vodka, cologne are suitable for this). The swab is not very wet so as not to burn the skin.
2. To reduce pain, especially at night, apply thermal treatments: blue light, heating pad, and in the morning - to the doctor.
3. Treat the upper respiratory tract at the same time, as this is almost always associated.
Only a doctor can remove foreign objects that accidentally get into the ear. Unskillful intrusion into the ear is unacceptable - this can lead to serious damage, hearing loss.

M. Vasilyeva in the magazine "Be Healthy" recommends 2-3 drops of warm camphor oil and fresh onion juice in a sore ear at night. At severe pain even with a high temperature, wax candles in the ear help well. For a child - 2-3 candles, for an adult 4-8 - according to the sensations. After the procedure, clean the ears with alcohol (preferably camphor). Then insert a cotton swab into the ear: moisten it with alcohol, squeeze it dry and drip 3 drops of fresh onion juice on it. Top - dry cotton wool. This reduces pain and improves hearing.

Eyes.
Huge pressure on the eyes when working with literary and musical material, strong, dazzling lighting of the stage, the constant atmosphere of the backstage, where dust from the scenery and backstage accumulates - all this makes you think about the prevention of vision and periodically check your eyesight with a doctor. Many experts recommend preventive measures. I. Vasilyeva recommends: Gymnastics for the eyes. For tired eyes, I offer you three useful rules for every day:
1. As often as possible, drive a silver spoon over the eye sockets. Can be on tired eye put a piece of foil.
2. Put a drop of sea buckthorn oil in the eye in the evening.
3. If your eyes are tired, rub your earlobe.

And now some exercises for the ciliary muscles of the eye, which control the lens.
1. Sharply raise your eyes up, lower down, look to the right and left. At the same time, mentally say: peace (up), peace (down), goodness (to the right), love (to the left). I imagine how flows pass through me, carrying harmony and peace. The eyes only direct these streams and become clear and pure.
2. Close your eyes, focus on the tip of your nose, bring your eyes to your nose, slowly count to five... back to your nose... to your ears. Repeat nine times.
3. Close your eyes. Place the pads of your index, middle, and ring fingers, press lightly. Very careful and easy in a circular motion massage your eyeballs. Imagine how the nutrition of each cell of the eye improves, heterogeneity resolves and toxins are washed out. It is very good to lubricate the skin of the eyelids before this. sea buckthorn oil(olive, castor, burdock). At the end, blot your eyelids with a tissue. Do this before bed.
4. Position your fingers in the same way as in the previous exercise. Make circular movements with your eyes, overcoming the resistance of your hands. Nine laps one way and nine laps the other.
5. Massage the temples and knead the eyebrows (hands, clean face). Put your fingers on your temples. Press lightly, massage in circular motions for several minutes, then place four fingers on the edge of the cheekbone: the index finger near the ear, the little finger near the eye. Press with each finger, examining the bone ... Maybe one of the fingers will feel growths, uneven lumps on the border of the bone? With a vibrating movement of your fingers, as it were, wash off, remove these irregularities and imagine that the cleanest stream flows nearby, it takes the garbage away. Examine and clean the frontal bone. It is very pleasant to hold a sheet of foil on the temple for several minutes. Pay attention to the bones behind the ear. These mastoid processes temporal bone It is very important to check and clean regularly, preferably every day. Massage your eyebrows. Grab the eyebrow at the nose with your index and thumbs, knead it with effort, slowly moving along the eyebrow to the ear. Repeat several times.
6. Put index fingers on the lacrimal ossicles at the inner corners closed eyes. Press and massage the bones as if you were washing them in warm and clean water. Now move your fingers to the outer corners of the eye, press, "flush" them too.
7. Blink fast... even faster! As fast as possible! Simultaneously, you can squeeze and unclench your fingers, and click your tongue.
8. Rest after the seventh exercise. Close your eyes and tune in to a quiet evening by the big water. Don't stress. Remember the details: a stone on the shore, sand, a boat on the water, clouds in the sky. And soon, soon a sense of peace will come to you, your eyes will rest well by the water.

AT recent times There has been a lot of literature that describes preventive methods eye care, eye treatment methods. I will name some of them:

# W. Bates "Improving vision without glasses using the Bates method"
# M.D. Corbett "How to buy good vision without glasses"
# Patricia Bragg "Improving vision according to the Bragg system"
# N.I. Kudryashov "Vision: preservation, normalization, restoration". Last work is especially good, since it summarizes the experience of many doctors, schools of different peoples in improving health and preserving vision.

Hardening of the throat is aimed at strengthening the tonsils and therefore helps prevent the development of angina. Also, hardening reduces the incidence of viral infections, since the tonsils, which are the first barrier of the immune system, perform their function qualitatively. Without hardening, it is impossible to ensure the full functioning of the immune system. Therefore, the general hardening of the body without procedures that strengthen the tonsils will not give the desired result. With a hardened throat, sore throats and colds are much less threatening.

The benefits of hardening

Procedures aimed at hardening the throat and nasopharynx can prevent the occurrence of inflammatory and viral infections, as well as avoid surgery to remove the tonsils. Even when chronic pharyngitis and chronic tonsillitis are present, hardening a sore throat, it is possible to avoid exacerbations. Stuffy nose and adenoids are not a ban on hardening.

At what age can a child's throat be hardened

You can harden your throat from the age of 2 years. The immune system of the child is already quite developed, and he is already able to consciously perform certain actions. The sooner the throat strengthening procedures begin, the better, as this allows you to minimize the risk of developing diseases.

Hardening of children should begin in the warm season, when the body is less exposed to viruses and pathogenic bacteria. Additionally, during this period, the abundance of sunlight favorably affects the human body, improving the functioning of the immune system and maintaining its health. The hardening of the child, associated with the strengthening of the tonsils, is optimally organized from the end of May, so that the throat is sufficiently prepared for the beginning of the cold season.

Throat Hardening Methods

There are several ways to harden the throat at home. In order to choose the best for yourself or your child, you should focus on the sensations. Throat hardening procedures should not cause unpleasant feeling. Instructions for hardening for any method always recommend gradualness. If you have chronic diseases, you should consult your doctor. In this case, the hardening method will be chosen as correctly as possible and will certainly help to increase immunity.

With the help of water

Cold water perfectly accustoms the throat to temperature changes and trains the vessels. As a result, the susceptibility of tissues to cooling is significantly reduced, and a drop in local immunity does not occur, even when a very cold liquid is consumed, or frosty air is inhaled.

Choosing this method, you must follow a certain order. You can not abruptly start drinking cold water. Tempering begins with a liquid heated to body temperature. Then every week its temperature is lowered by 2°C until it reaches 8°C. At this temperature, you should stop, since its further decrease will not improve the effect of hardening, but will only harm the mucosa. If desired, cold water can be consumed with dissolved honey, compotes or green tea.

ice cubes

Instead of drinking cold water You can crush ice cubes. At first, ice is taken into the mouth only for 30 seconds. Every 3 days, the procedure is extended by 10 seconds until its duration reaches 2 minutes.

It is not necessary to take only water for ice. It can be replaced with decoctions of calendula or chamomile, which also have a healing effect. Compotes, juices and fruit drinks are also frozen. Usually, children are especially eager to suck up delicious ice cubes from sweet drinks.

Rinsing

The simplest hardening method. To keep the tonsils and nasopharynx constantly in good shape, it is indicated to rinse 3 times a day. Start hardening, using water at a temperature of 25 ° C. It is lowered by a degree every 4 days until 8 ° C is reached. Stop at this point. If the child is often sick, it is effective to use a decoction of eucalyptus or St. John's wort instead of water.

Children under 5 years old can rarely gargle safely and efficiently, which is why such a procedure is undesirable at this age. Up to 12 years of age, rinsing is carried out only under the supervision of an adult.

See in the video how the throat is hardened in kindergarten.

Contrast rinse

This technique of gargling for the purpose of hardening consists in alternating exposure to heat and cold on the throat. For the procedure, two glasses are taken. One is filled with water at a temperature of 50 ° C, and the other - 20 ° C. Start and finish rinsing hot water. If you dissolve 1 teaspoon of sea or table salt in a glass of water, then the procedure will become especially useful. It is best to rinse in the morning after brushing your teeth.

Ice cream

The most convenient way to harden the throat in children. Throat training begins by eating 1 tsp. goodies. After 3 days, the portion is increased by ½ spoon. Finish increasing the volume of ice cream when 4 tablespoons are eaten at a time. It is optimal to combine ice cream with hardening of the throat by other methods.

Pouring feet

The first way is a contrasting dousing of the legs from the knees. When they alternate exposure to cold and hot water - 20 seconds each. The duration of the session is 5 minutes. It is carried out 1 time per day.

The second method - cold dousing of the feet is carried out under a continuous stream of water for 5 minutes. The procedure is also carried out once a day. Redness of the skin after the procedure is normal and even obligatory.

Dad's advice on maternity leave on how to wash your baby cold water.

Throat exercises

So that the throat does not hurt, help strengthen it and special exercises for hardening. They are carried out in combination with thermal procedures.

Chanting vowels for 10 minutes every morning.
Pronunciation of vowels without using the voice, only thanks to the wide opening of the mouth.
Humming different motives, using only "A".

Exercises are equally easy and useful for adults and children. They are held daily. Small children can perform them not in the morning, but after a nap.

Dr. Komarovsky, considering the relationship between hardening and immunity, emphasizes that hardening a child is not 100% protection against viral infections, but only the maximum strengthening of the body. His main tips for strengthening activities are:

regularity of procedures;
slow increase in exposure time of procedures and their intensity;
accounting individual features child's body.

In the video, Komarovsky tells in detail how to properly temper a child so as not to harm his health.

Contraindications for procedures

To strengthen the throat, there are certain contraindications. Compliance with them is mandatory. The restrictions are:

age up to 2 years;
diseases of the nasopharynx in the acute phase and the period of exacerbation;
low temperature;
elevated temperature;
7 days after recovery from viral infections;
general malaise.

If there was a long break in the procedures, it is resumed as for the first time, starting with a small impact.

The throat is the part of the body that is often exposed to hypothermia. In this regard, doctors recommend the use of regular hardening of the throat.

Effective and proven methods will help maintain health not only in winter, but also in summer, when the body can be exposed to sharp drafts.

If you harden the throat with chronic pharyngitis and other colds, this will avoid the development of complications and relieve the symptoms of the disease.

Chronic disease of the nasopharynx and throat in last years often found in patients. The doctor diagnoses pharyngitis, tonsillitis, tonsillitis, these diseases develop against the background of the inflammatory process of the nasopharynx and periodically provoke an exacerbation of the disease.

The decrease in the protective properties of the body is main reason occurrence of a chronic disease. When cold temperatures begin to affect the mucous membranes of the throat, inflammation immediately develops, with which the immune system is not always able to fully cope.

Also, inflammation can be provoked by the body's addiction to too warm a drink. Many patients are accustomed from childhood to heat up milk or compote before drinking it.

As a result, the mucous membranes of the throat become accustomed to warm temperatures and in the future poorly withstand any exposure to cold.

It is for this reason that chronic diseases of the throat are not often found in Europe, since people from childhood are accustomed to always drink cold drinks, which makes it possible to harden the throat from birth.

Hardening the throat is the preparation of the body for weather changes. If a person quickly catches a cold, if he walks barefoot, eats ice cream or stays in a draft for several minutes, it is necessary to harden.

There are several methods that allow you to avoid exacerbation of a cold and protect your throat from a cold.

Most in a simple way hardening of the throat with the use of water is considered. This requires rinsing the larynx three times a day with cool water, the initial temperature of which should not exceed 25 degrees.

Gradually, the temperature should drop by one to two degrees a week. The decrease in water temperature must be stopped when the water reaches 8 degrees.

In order for the procedure to have a therapeutic effect, it is recommended to add a small amount of sea salt to ordinary water. This substance will clean the nasopharynx from accumulated microbes.

It is equally useful to use herbal rinses when rinsing. healing fees. In water, you can add a decoction of chamomile, sage or St. John's wort, which is pre-cooled. Similar procedure gargle medicinal herbs avoids the development of angina or laryngitis.

Instead of water, you can use pre-prepared ice, this method is considered more radical. Initially, small ice cubes are absorbed, gradually increasing their size every week.

To make the effect more pronounced, instead of plain water you can freeze healing herbal decoctions, for example, gargle with chamomile. On the first day, ice cubes are held for 30 seconds, every three days the duration of the procedure is increased by 10 seconds.

Contrasting treatments are also effective in developing addiction to low temperatures. To this end, gargling is first carried out with warm water, and then cold liquid is used.

For the procedure, two glasses are used, hot water is poured into one, and cold water into the other. Rinsing is done alternately from one glass, then from another.

However, it is important that hot water is always the last one. To strengthen the mucous membranes, ordinary or sea salt is used at the rate of one teaspoon per glass of liquid.

Initially, the water should have a slight difference, however, every day the interval between warm and cold water should increase. If the patient experiences discomfort when using cold fluids, lowering temperatures should be done more smoothly and gradually.

It is important to understand that when hardening the throat, the regularity of the procedure is primarily important, and not a rapid decrease in temperature.

Washing the feet at the feet is one of the most effective methods of hardening the throat. This procedure is carried out every day for a year before going to bed.

Initially, the water temperature should be 25-28 degrees.
Every two to three days, the temperature should drop by one degree until the readings reach 10-15 degrees.
The hardening procedure is carried out for no more than three minutes.
After the procedure, the feet are thoroughly rubbed with a waffle towel until the skin turns red.

Contrast hardening procedures are also effective. To do this, alternate washing the feet in water of different temperatures. Water at a temperature of 35 degrees is poured into one basin, and 15 degrees into the other. Initially, the feet descend into warm water and stay there for three minutes. After the legs are lowered into cold water, after half a minute the procedure is repeated with warm water. Alternation is done two or three times.

At home, you can make a kind of stream, along which you need to walk for at least five minutes. To do this, a tap with cold water is opened in the bathroom, and the patient must be in a powerful flowing stream, standing with his feet on the bottom of the bath.

This procedure is similar to walking on damp grass after rain or dew.

Instead of water and ice, you can harden your throat with chronic pharyngitis or another disease using regular ice cream. To do this, half a teaspoon of sweets is taken into the mouth and held for several seconds without swallowing. After a week, the dosage of ice cream increases.

Similarly, hardening of the throat is done with frozen juice. It is important to increase the size of the cubes gradually, every week of the procedure.

An equally effective method for hardening the throat is the use of inhalation. As a basis, special essential oils are usually used, which have a bactericidal effect on the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx and larynx. Besides, essential oil helps a lot with coughs.

To make the effect of the procedure stronger, doctors recommend taking a short and then a long breath in and out.

To strengthen the neuromuscular apparatus of the nasopharynx, in addition to the usual hardening of the throat, special exercises are used. Gymnastics is carried out every day at least ten times a day.

The head turns to the right, while the right hand strokes the neck area, the base of the ear and the back of the head on the left side.
The palm pats the neck and upper part chest from top to bottom and back.
The patient quietly pronounces paired vowel sounds: a-i, o-e, u-yu, s-i, uh.
The same sounds are uttered only by throat breathing.
The head tilts forward, backward, left, right, while the head should strive to touch the shoulders.
The patient sings any song motive, using the lingering sound "a".

In addition to the above methods, one should refrain from excessively wrapping the throat, wearing too warm clothes. Can't drink when it's hot ice water and eat big chunks of ice cream. Breathe through your nose, trying to avoid mouth breathing. The video in this article will show you how to harden your throat with a gargle.

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How to harden the throat? This question torments many. With diseases such as tonsillitis, tonsillitis and just sore throat, a huge number of people suffer, starting with babies. By and large, these pathologies are seasonal in nature, that is, the greatest activity is observed in the winter months and hot summer days. Inhaled cold air in winter and drinking cold drinks in summer threatens to hypothermia the throat and, as a result, inflammation. So is it possible to change the situation if we turn to hardening? How to harden the throat and do it most effectively?

First of all, as with all diseases, we must remember to strengthen the immune system. All means that strengthen the immune system, strengthen the throat. It follows from this that the hardening of both children and adults is the path to good health. There are a huge number of ways to do this.

Cold water as a remedy for diseases

Throat training by gargling with water - excellent remedy against susceptibility to various diseases including angina. It is impossible to start rinsing the throat with very cold water, the initial temperature should be about 26 ° C. The temperature is gradually decreasing. 2°C per day is enough. final result for rinsing with water for adults: 8-10°C, for children - 15-18°C. It is desirable to carry out the procedure after a meal.

Contrast rinses

Contrast rinses are procedures characterized by the alternate use of cold and hot water. To use this method, you need to take two glasses. Hot water is poured into one glass, and cold water is poured into the other. The throat is gargled alternately: first from one glass, then from another. The rule of this method: you need to finish the procedure with hot water. To enhance the effect, table or sea salt is added to the water. A teaspoon per glass is enough.

Throat hardening by sucking ice cubes

Another way is to use ice from water or from herbal decoctions. Ice cubes dissolve over time, that is, for the first time half a minute will be enough, then every 3-4 days the duration increases by 10 seconds. For babies, you can use frozen fruit juice, it will only be a joy for a child. It is recommended to keep ice in the mouth starting from 15 seconds, gradually increasing the time and size of the ice.

Leg hardening to boost immunity

It has been proven that hardening of the legs directly helps in the prevention of diseases such as tonsillitis and other chronic pathologies of the nasopharynx, strengthens the immune system. Feet are washed every day before going to bed. For the first time, a water temperature of 26-28 ° C will be enough. Every 2-3 days it is necessary to lower the temperature by 1°C. Bring the temperature to 11-14 °C. After the procedure, which lasts an average of 1-3 minutes, the legs must be rubbed until redness.

Next effective method is as follows: water at a temperature of 35 ° C is poured into one bucket, colder - 15 ° C - into another. You need to start the procedure by lowering your legs first into warm water, then into cold. Alternate should be 2-3 times. Moreover, it is necessary to keep your feet in a bucket of hot water for 2-3 minutes, in cold water - 30 seconds is enough. Daily performance of this contrast hardening guarantees strong immunity and healthy throat.

healthy ice cream

When interviewing citizens, many, smiling, mentioned such a method as hardening with ice cream. Of course, this is a very pleasant and tasty way, but subject to the measure and dosage. Eat small portions of this delicious treat morning and evening. For greater effect, it is better to make ice cream yourself, adding ingredients such as lemon juice, chamomile decoction, calendula decoction, eucalyptus decoction and others medicinal herbs to the taste of everyone. Here is one of the simple and delicious healthy ice cream recipes:

Homemade ice cream with the addition of lemon and decoction of chamomile petals.

You will need:

grated lemon zest (grated);
100 ml of sparkling water;
3/4 st. ordinary water;
140 ml tbsp chamomile decoction;
100 grams of sugar;
1/2 st. lemon juice.

Recipe: put zest in a metal container, pour in water and chamomile decoction, add sugar. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5-7 minutes over low heat, cool.

The resulting semi-finished product is mixed with lemon juice and sparkling water. The mixture is transferred to a container and frozen in freezer about 20 min. After that, the ice cream must be thoroughly mixed. Moreover, the intensity of stirring directly affects the taste of ice cream. Stir every 30 minutes until fully cooked.

Strengthening the throat with herbs

For those who prefer to strengthen the throat with herbs, preparations obtained from Echinacea purpurea will come to the rescue. This plant contains such medicinal substances that have immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal effects. These drugs are very effective in immunodeficiencies that are associated with respiratory tract infections. In addition, there are many other plants that can help in the prevention of throat diseases, such as ginseng, eleutherococcus, garlic, St. John's wort, chamomile, plantain, aloe, coltsfoot, licorice, nettle.

Hardening is a gradual decrease in temperature. But even a sharp application of cold gives its result if the throat is already sore. Here are a few facts about its use in angina:

The most important and most quick effect cold is that it reduces the sensation of pain. Cold drinks or ice cream act on the sore throat as anesthesia: numbness is caused, as a result of which the sensitivity of the mucous membrane decreases.
Swelling of tissues that interferes with swallowing, causing pain, can also be removed with cold, as it constricts blood vessels, making swelling less.
In heat, with an inflammatory process in the throat, pathogenic bacteria multiply more actively, prolonging a cold, increasing the risk of complications. The effect of the cold prevents them from multiplying rapidly, thus stopping this process.
A sore throat interferes with the intake of any food. Oddly enough, ice cream is an exception. Its texture is soft and cold, the creams it contains do not irritate the throat, and the protein and carbohydrates help to restore strength. At the first days of a sore throat, ice cream - excellent tool replacing heavy meals.
Incredible, but true: a cool compress increases the flow of heat to the throat. For greater effect, the compress is covered with a woolen cloth on top.

All methods are great way hardening of a weak throat. But you need to start them only when you are healthy.

Start rinsing with warm solutions of chamomile or calendula or water with the addition of sea salt every day, making them cooler, or freeze decoctions of herbs, fruit juices, using homemade healing ice cream for every taste as ice - this hardening combines pleasant with useful. The whole family will love the new flavor ranges, and a healthy throat and strengthened immunity will be a nice addition.

At chronic pharyngitis and frequent sore throats, doctors recommend hardening both the whole body as a whole and the throat in particular. How to harden the throat so as not to harm yourself or the child and at the same time get the desired result? Many people ask this question.

Hardening is a lengthy procedure and in order to get the desired result, you need to tune in to the fact that the process will drag on for 2-3 months. In principle, any type of hardening strengthens the throat, but there are also special techniques that allow local hardening. Here, the impact is carried out directly on the mucous throats, pharynx, tonsils.

It is customary to harden the throat with cold water, juice or ice. This makes the organs of the pharynx and larynx more resistant to temperature extremes, allows local immunity to more effectively fight viruses. The result of the efforts will be greater resistance to colds and pharyngitis.

Among the important ones for local hardening, denote such rules.

You need to start the procedures with comfortable temperatures (room + 25-30).
The decrease in the thermometer should be gradual. For adults, it is 1 degree after 4-5 days, and for children after 7 days. The indicator at which they stop is +7 for adults, and 15 for children.
Chronic diseases of other organs are not a contraindication for these procedures, but they are not carried out in acute stage diseases of the ENT organs.
If a cold appears after the start of the procedures, they are not stopped, however, if there is a fever (above 38.5), hardening should be stopped.
It is impossible to strengthen the throat immediately after suffering infectious diseases. It must be at least 2 weeks after recovery.
If hardening of the throat was stopped, then new cycle start over (again with room temperature).
It is better to start the procedures in the warm season: in summer or autumn, when the natural air temperature is high, and the body receives a sufficient amount of natural vitamins.
Children should be hardened throat from 2-3 years old, the baby should be able to perform the tasks of an adult.
The course of procedures is carried out 2-3 times a year for several months.

There are many methods for strengthening a weak throat, these are:

rinses;
Cold drink;
Use of ice;
Ice cream;
Foot treatments.

Most of them are based on a simple way of “accustoming” the mucous membranes of the pharynx to temperature changes, which will allow them to effectively resist colds in real time.

However, each specific method has a number of features.

Hardening with a simple rinse will be effective. For it, ordinary tap water is used, to which you can add ½ tsp. sea salt.

For rinsing, take 2 glasses of water different temperatures 25-30 and 40-45. First, gargle for 20 seconds with cold water, and then 30 seconds with warm. The procedure is repeated as long as there is water in the glasses, always ending with warmth.

After 4-5 days, warm water is made hotter by 1 degree, and cold water is reduced by the same indicator. The procedure is continued until the cold reaches +15, while the temperature of warm water should be no more than +50. Her indicator is stopped at this mark.

Rinsing is carried out 3-4 times a day.

Instead of water, you can use decoctions of chamomile, St. John's wort, calendula.

Before hardening the throat with a cold drink, you need to make sure that in this moment no colds, and no chronic diseases of the upper respiratory tract in remission. Cold drink is water, juices, smoothies, decoctions of herbs: hawthorn, wild rose, chamomile. To begin with, they take a glass (200 ml) of drinking at room temperature (+25), you need to drink it in very small sips with an interval of 30-40 seconds. If there are significant problems with the throat, then 5-7 sips are enough for the first time.

Then, at this temperature of the drink, they drink the whole glass, adding 3 sips every 2-3 days. Then lower the temperature by 1 degree every 5 days. They stop at +15.

The procedure is carried out 3-4 times a day.

Doctors believe that one of the causes of throat diseases is the practice of giving children warm drink. Babies are warmed up with milk, compote and even juice. Although they are more comfortable drinking cool drinks. In the US, angina among children preschool age significantly lower than in Europe. This is explained by the fact that cold drinking is practiced there even for the smallest.

A weak throat can be strengthened in more pleasant ways: ice or ice cream.

We make ice ourselves from decoctions of herbs or juices, first we dissolve a very small piece for 30 seconds. Then after 5 days we lengthen the time (we take more ice) up to 1 minute, and so on up to 5 minutes adding only 30 seconds at a time.

If you use ice cream for hardening, then you first need to eat it thawed, and no more than 5 tablespoons for an adult, and only then move on to the usual one.

The procedure of hardening with ice and ice cream is carried out 2-3 times a day.

Important! The time of any hardening procedure, the intervals for lowering the temperature are very individual and can be lengthened. But remember, the slower the hardening is, the better the result will be. When too rapid decline temperature, you can easily get the opposite result - that is, get sick.

When choosing how to harden the throat, which method to choose for an adult, you need to objectively assess your capabilities. So it is possible to carry out procedures with ice at the workplace (if there is a refrigerator), but contrast rinsing will be difficult to do.

For babies, rinsing will also be difficult, as well as drinking in small sips, but the ice cream method is very good: they can be fed with a spoon (for starters, no more than ½ tsp).

Among folk methods of hardening the throat, foot baths are well known. In fact, there are several types of such procedures:

Pour water at room temperature (35 C) into a basin and hold your feet in it for 5-7 minutes. In the future, reduce the temperature of the water in the basin by 1 degree weekly to +15. The procedure is done in the evening. After it, the feet should be rubbed to redness with a hard towel.
Stand with your feet under a stream of cold water for 5 minutes, and then turn on warm water and keep your feet under it for 10 minutes. Gradually reduce the temperature of the cold jet to 7-10 C. Always finish the procedure with comfort water. Do in the morning and in the evening.
To harden the throat, traditional medicine recommends walking in the dew in the morning with bare feet. Or just barefoot on the ground for 1-2 hours a day.

Gymnastics also has a good strengthening result. They promote blood flow to the organs of the pharynx and throat, which activates the immune system.

This set of simple exercises will help to harden the throat for both a child and an adult.

Parents should decide how to harden a child's throat together with a pediatrician. This will help you choose the most acceptable option and not harm the baby.

For older children, almost all the methods described above are suitable. For babies, it is better to use rinses and the ice cream method. Babies can also be given ice cubes, but they should be very small (just 20 seconds of resorption).

It is very important to carry out all procedures in a warm room and not take the baby out into the cold after them for 1 hour.

Any hardening procedure should end with breathing exercises through the mouth - this will allow the nasopharynx to warm up.

Dress your baby for the weather.
Do not give children cold ice cream and drink in the cold outside.
The baby should always breathe through the nose.
Do not start hardening immediately after suffering pharyngitis, SARS, rhinitis.
Do not let babies drink from the refrigerator intense heat. The drink should be cool, but not icy.

In general, how to strengthen a throat prone to frequent pharyngitis or even angina, everyone should decide for himself. In this case, one should take into account not only the comfort of the procedure, but also the condition of the throat, the possibility of carrying out procedures and the patience of the patient.

Heal and be healthy!

Colds, various acute respiratory viral infections, tonsillitis are very unpleasant not only because they worsen general well-being person, but also the destruction of the normal routine of life of each person, and sometimes even a family or a team.

For example, mom has to stay at home with a cold child, and dad has to work an extra shift for a colleague who is in the hospital because of an infectious sore throat.

At first glance, nothing can be done with this, but it is not. There are a number of very effective measures to improve local and general immunity, hardening the body.

Prevention of angina in children and adults with a responsible and systematic approach gives very good results, really reduces the frequency and severity of diseases.

General strengthening of the body

The state of the organism as a whole plays a decisive role in morbidity respiratory infections. That is why it is so important to pay attention proper nutrition, daily routine, reasonable alternation of work with rest. With overwork, stress, nutrition with a low content of vitamins, the overall immunity weakens, and the likelihood of getting sick becomes higher.

For the treatment and prevention of tonsillitis, SARS and influenza in children and adults, Elena Malysheva recommends effective drug Immunity from Russian scientists. Due to its unique, and most importantly 100% natural composition, the drug is extremely effective in the treatment of sore throats, colds and strengthening immunity.

Playing sports is an excellent prevention of SARS and tonsillitis. Any outdoor sports will help strengthen the body, increase its resistance to disease. A good alternative to sports is morning or evening exercise, which can be done even at home. However, it is required to have self-discipline and a high degree of self-organization in order to perform the exercises systematically, regularly, because only then will they have an effect.

Daily walks in the fresh air in the park is another option to increase the protective capabilities of the human body. You need to walk at least an hour a day. If possible, it is optimal to conduct gymnastic exercises in nature. Will help strengthen the throat exercises that train the muscles of the neck, vocal cords(singing vowel sounds).

Everything that increases general immunity necessarily strengthens the throat, so hardening adults and children is considered a direct path to good health.

There are a lot of options and methods of hardening, you can increase the resistance of the body with cold water, sun and air baths. Let us dwell in more detail on how to temper the body with water. Gentle and accessible to all methods are:

Washing face, neck, chest, hands with cold water;
Cool foot baths;
Contrasting foot douches alternately with cold and hot water;
General contrast shower;
Dousing with cold water;
Wiping with a cool wet towel.

If hardening of children and adults is carried out using contrast douches or soul, you need to follow a simple rule: you need to start with a small temperature difference, gradually increasing it.

A great way to harden a child is to allow them to constantly run barefoot around the house. The cold effect on the feet, paradoxically, trains the vessels of the throat, improves their work, and increases local immunity.

It should also be remembered that dry and warm air contributes to the drying of the mucous membrane, which at the same time becomes an easy prey for viruses and bacteria. For throat health, it is important to monitor air parameters, especially during the heating season.

Hardening procedures for the throat

Many are interested in the question of how to strengthen the throat through hardening. Here, too, there are many methods. You can strengthen the throat of adults and babies with:

Rinsing with cold water
contrast rinses,
Regular consumption of cold drinks
Resorption in the oral cavity of ice cubes,
Eating ice cream.

Training the vessels of the pharynx and pharynx through rinsing with cold water in the morning and evening is an excellent prevention of various diseases, including tonsillitis. They begin to rinse the throat with water at a temperature of 36-38 degrees, gradually reducing it. In the end, you can bring the rinse temperature for adults to 8-10 degrees, for children - up to 15-18 degrees.

You can add a little salt to the water, it is also allowed to use decoctions of medicinal herbs (chamomile, sage).

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Throat diseases, namely tonsillitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis cause a lot of trouble for adults and children. These pathological conditions bother both in cold weather and off-season, and in summer. In some situations, even a short stay in a draft, ice cream in the heat or a glass soft drink may cause unpleasant pain in the throat area. Hardening procedures will help to cope with this problem. They are, not surgical intervention or treatment with antibiotics and antiseptics, can give a really effective and sustainable preventive result. Parents of frequently ill children should definitely know how to harden the throat.

Throat hardening can be performed on children from the age of two and adults. It is clear that the sooner throat strengthening is started, the more effective such prevention will be. Of course, a frequently ill adult should also pay attention to these manipulations. After a series of procedures, both children and adults will catch a cold much less often.

In order not to harm health and harden the throat of a child and an adult with chronic tonsillitis, pharyngitis must adhere to the following rules:

You should refrain from hardening the throat in children if a negative reaction occurs, that is, the child is categorically opposed to the procedure.
All manipulations are contraindicated in case of exacerbation of diseases of the nasopharynx.
Events should be started in the warm season, when there is no epidemic situation for viral infections.
The regularity of the procedures is necessary.

Hardening the throat is, in principle, a simple procedure. It does not even require material investments. The most important thing is perseverance and perseverance.

How to carry out the procedure?

No need to immediately expect miracles and instant healing. A stable result will be visible in a few months.

It is important to know how to harden the throat correctly. After correct procedures, the mucosa becomes resistant to adverse factors by increasing local immunity. As a result, children and adults get sick much less frequently. If the disease nevertheless develops, then it proceeds in a mild form, and its terms are reduced.

Some procedures help to increase not only local, but also general immunity. It also improves performance and reduces fatigue.

Drinking cold water

It is important for parents to know about how to harden a child’s throat, what rules should be followed first of all. After all, almost every child suffers from inflammation of the mucous throat. And one of the methods that gives good result- Drinking cold water.

Often, parents, in order to protect their child from diseases, give him only warm water to drink. As a result, it gives a very delicate and vulnerable mucosa. The slightest hypothermia leads to diseases.

In order to temper a child from childhood, it is necessary to accustom him to drinking cool water. This process is as follows:

You need to start hardening gradually - at first the water temperature should be no lower than 25 degrees. You need to drink only in small sips, and be sure to hold the liquid in your mouth for a while.
After 2 days, you can lower the temperature by one degree, then this should be done daily.
The minimum water temperature for a child should be 15 degrees, and for an adult it can be reduced to 8-10 degrees.

Instead of ordinary water, you can use infusions of medicinal herbs: chamomile, St. John's wort, sage. Cold drinks are also perfect: compotes, fruit juices, fruit drinks. They contain useful vitamins in large quantities, which is an additional factor in increasing the body's resistance to infections.

You do not need to use cold carbonated drinks, as they are harmful for both a child and an adult - they can provoke not only colds, but also other pathologies (for example, the gastrointestinal tract).

rinses

Very effective throat gargle. For this purpose, it is also preferable to use cool water. The temperature decreases gradually, according to the same principle as for drinking. For amplification therapeutic effect you can add sea salt to the water or use infusions of medicinal herbs: chamomile, sage, calendula.

Contrasting rinses are also effective. This requires two glasses of water. The temperature of the first glass should be about 50 degrees, and the temperature of the second glass should be 25–20 degrees. Gradually, the water in the second glass can be made even cooler (up to 15 degrees). Procedures must be alternated, and the latter must necessarily be with slightly hot water (not boiling water).

Ice hardening

For those who are interested in how to harden a child's throat in a more radical way, ice cubes can be used. They need to dissolve in the mouth for no more than two minutes. For freezing it is necessary to use filtered water or infusion of medicinal herbs.

Ice cream

How is a child's throat hardened in the most pleasant way for him? Of course, with the help of ice cream. Naturally, you can not be allowed to eat your favorite delicacy without measure. Permissible dose should be 50 grams per day, and it should be divided into two doses. You need to eat ice cream slowly, without swallowing large pieces. This must be done not on the street, but at home. Don't let your child freeze.

There will be much more benefit if you give your child not a store-bought product with an incomprehensible composition, but prepare ice cream at home. You can also use frozen juice or fruit puree. You can experiment with flavors and choose what your child prefers.

Exercise as a preventive measure

The following exercises help prevent sore throats:

Chanting paired vowels (a-y, y-o, i-a, e-a).
Singing your favorite motive "ah-ah-ah."
Shaking the head in different directions.
Massaging the behind-the-ear area and the back of the head while tilting the head to each side.
Patting and tapping with the palm of the hand on the front of the neck.

Such exercises must be performed daily 6 times each for 15 minutes. The recommended course is at least 2 months. Exercises with the pronunciation of sounds must first be performed in a quiet voice, and then in a whisper.

Pouring feet

In order not only to harden the throat, but also to increase the overall resistance to infectious diseases, it is necessary to pour cool water over the feet every day before going to bed. You need to start hardening with water at room temperature, gradually bringing the indicator to 10-12 degrees. After dousing, rub your feet dry with a hard towel.

When a child or adult gets used to such procedures, you can try to apply even more effective method"cold stream" To do this, you need to walk, counting steps to a hundred, in a bathtub filled to the ankles with cold water. It is desirable that water runs from an open tap. After the feet, you also need to dry it with a towel.

Cold and hot shower

Acceptance will also help strengthen the throat. contrast shower. According to many, it is the most effective hardening procedure. To perform it, you should stand alternately for a minute, first under a warm and then under a cool shower. At the very beginning of hardening, the temperature difference should be minimal. Over time, the contrast can be enhanced. At the same time, for an adult, temperatures should be in the range from 45 to 12 degrees. For a child, the temperature range should be from 36 to 16-18 degrees. To achieve this difference, the hardening time should be at least two months.

Healthy indoor climate

Many pediatricians rightly believe that the exacerbation of throat diseases in the cold season is directly related to the dry air in the room. This situation occurs due to heating. In order for the air to be humidified, it is necessary to regularly carry out wet cleaning, put vessels with water on heating batteries. If possible, use humidifiers and ionizers. Also try to keep the air temperature in the room does not exceed 22-23 degrees during the day and 18-19 degrees at night.

Many parents often try to dress their children warmer in winter. This can lead to the fact that the child sweats, which can subsequently provoke hypothermia. Try not to wrap the child, but dress in comfortable clothes.

Rooms must be regularly ventilated (several times a day for 10-15 minutes). Doctors also insist that in the warm season, the vents and windows should be open all the time.

walking barefoot

Promotes hardening of the body and walking barefoot. This increases both general and local immunity of the nasopharynx. It is necessary to start this procedure in the warm season. Walking on a sandy and pebble beach, as well as on dew, is very useful.

After several months of such hardening in the warm season, allow the child to walk barefoot around the apartment. At a comfortable air temperature, this will contribute to the production of protective antibodies in the body and strengthen the throat mucosa.

Hardening and lifestyle

Hardening procedures will have a positive effect on the child's body only if his lifestyle is properly organized. For this you need:

Sufficient time outdoors.
Physical activity.
It is necessary to walk in any weather (frost, snow, rain).
At least the child should be in the open air for 1 hour. This time should be extended if possible.
On weekends, preference should be given to outdoor recreation and outdoor games.
It is necessary to reduce the child's stay at the computer, smartphone, TV. Strictly control the passion for computer games.
Try not to overload your child extra classes and preparation of home school assignments.

To teach a child to proper routine day and contact with nature, try to make this way of life habitual for yourself. This will improve both your health and your child's.

Hardening events should be chosen depending on preference. It is advisable to stop at two or three procedures you like. The time spent at the same time will pay off handsomely, since as a result you will get not only a decrease in the incidence, but also a new quality of life. You will be able to fully enjoy with your child the frosty winter weather, the beauty of rainy autumn and spring with its temperature changes and unstable weather.

The body's reactivity plays important role in morbidity infectious pathologies. A decrease in local and general immunity greatly increases the risk of uncontrolled reproduction. conditionally pathogenic microorganisms in the mucous membranes of the ENT organs.

How to harden the throat to prevent inflammation?

An integrated approach to solving the issue increases the chances of increasing the body's resistance. Local activities associated with the use of drugs systemic action, allow you to increase the resistance of the immune system to respiratory diseases.

Timely strengthening of immunity not only prevents the development of infection, but also reduces the likelihood of recurrence of chronic pathologies.

Immunity - what is it?

Immunity is the ability of the immune system to resist genetically foreign molecules, the development of which leads to respiratory diseases. Multilevel immunity provides homeostasis, i.e. stability of the organism at the molecular and tissue levels. In the event of a collision with pathogenic agents, defense mechanisms are activated that not only recognize antigens, but also destroy them through specialized cells.

Pathogenic microorganisms that have immunogenic properties (bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses) are potentially capable of causing mutations in the cells of the body and thereby provoke inflammatory and allergic processes. To prevent the destruction of healthy tissues, immunocompetent cells quickly respond to an epitope or antigenic determinants - a part of the pathogen molecule that is identified by the immune system as foreign.

Strengthening the immune system means restoring normal functions organs that produce immunocompetent cells:

thymus gland (thymus);
red bone marrow;
spleen;
lymphadenoid tissues (tonsils);
The lymph nodes.

Protector cells, which include T- and B-lymphocytes, neutrophils, basophils, monocytes, macrophages, etc., are involved in the initiation of acquired immunity. The functions of immunocompetent cells differ, but include phagocytosis, regulation of inflammatory processes, control of repair, regulation of the synthesis of specific cells and blood coagulation processes.

Types of Immunity

How to improve immunity? The immune system is a complex mechanism, the performance of which depends on the resistance of the whole organism. It is possible to prevent malfunctions in the functioning of individual parts of the system through immunostimulating drugs, vaccinations, normalization of the diet and local measures (water procedures).

Conventionally, immunity can be divided into two types:

non-specific (innate) - the ability to identify pathogenic cells according to general characteristics and the range of evolutionary relationship;
specific (acquired) - the ability to identify and destroy antigens that multiply clonally.

There are active (occurs after an infectious disease) and passive (appears as a result of the introduction of serum) acquired immunity. In a sense, transfer respiratory disease increases the body's resistance. Immunological memory allows the body to enhance a specific response in case of repeated penetration of "familiar" pathogens into the ENT organs. It is for this reason that an adult gets sick much less often than a child who has a specific active immunity practically absent.

Warning infectious diseases should start with strengthening immune protection. In most cases, the development of pathologies is preceded by a decrease in the body's resistance, which becomes an impulse for the activation of conditionally pathogenic microorganisms. Their reproduction leads to intoxication and a deterioration in the patient's well-being, as a result of which symptoms characteristic of a particular disease occur: hyperthermia, swelling of the throat, cough, lacrimation, redness of the mucous membranes of the oropharynx, etc. To increase the immunity of the throat, you need to know what exactly caused the malfunctioning of the immune system.

If the cause of the decrease in immunity is not eliminated, the implementation preventive measures will be ineffective.

Poor nutrition and non-compliance drinking regime leads to a decrease in the amount of useful (vitamins, minerals) and an increase in toxic (drug components, pathogen metabolites) substances in the body. An increase in the concentration of poisons in the blood leads to dysbacteriosis and, accordingly, a decrease in overall immunity, which increases the risk of developing infectious diseases.

Preventive actions

What should be the prevention of infectious diseases? The weakened state of the body creates all the prerequisites for the activation of pathogens in the ENT organs and the development of respiratory diseases. In order not to catch a cold, or at least reduce the likelihood of infection to a minimum, you must:

In the presence of secondary immunodeficiency caused by infectious pathologies, immunostimulating agents should be taken. General strengthening measures can increase the body's immune response and, accordingly, reduce the likelihood of the development of pathogenic flora in the throat mucosa. To achieve the desired therapeutic results, you can use:

general and local hardening procedures;
immunostimulating drugs;
decoctions and infusions based on medicinal herbs.

Prevention of respiratory pathologies with the systematic implementation of general recommendations can reduce the likelihood of infection of the body, and in case of illness, prevent severe course inflammatory processes.

Hardening procedures

Hardening is an effective way to increase immunity resistance to adverse exogenous factors. Wellness treatments allow you to accelerate the adaptation of the body to environmental conditions: cold, dampness, heat, etc. A hardened person is less susceptible to the negative effects of temperature changes, which prevents the occurrence of malfunctions in the immune system. How to strengthen the throat? Hardening with water is one of the most effective methods of increasing not only general, but also local immunity. Local exposure to cold and hot water on certain parts of the body activates immune resources, which reduces the likelihood of developing infectious diseases. Hardening of the throat involves the following procedures:

irrigation of the oropharynx;
gargling;
washing the face and neck with cold water;
wiping with a damp towel;
taking a contrast shower.

Tempering the throat must follow a simple rule: pouring and rinsing is done with water at room temperature, gradually reducing it to 9-10 degrees.

The systematic use of cold drinks and contrasting rinsing of the oropharynx with warm and cold water contribute to an increase in tissue reactivity and elasticity of blood vessels. Regular hardening throat can reduce the risk of developing an infectious disease by 2-3 times.

In order not to catch a cold in the midst seasonal diseases, you need to use immunostimulating agents.

They contain components that stimulate the production of interferon or the activity of the organs of the immune system. In pharmacology, there are several main types of immunostimulating drugs:

vegetable("Immunal", "Echinacea tincture") - do not contain synthetic components that negatively affect the work of detoxification organs; increase the body's resistance by replenishing the deficiency useful substances(trace elements, minerals, vitamins, organic acids);
bacterial("Bronchomunal", "Imudon") - increase the concentration of protective cells in the throat mucosa and increase phagocytic activity;
biostimulants("FiBS", "Plasmol") - prevent the occurrence allergic reactions and synthesis of inflammatory mediators;
interferon("Viferon", "Cycloferon") - induce the synthesis of endogenous interferon, which contributes to the production of granulocytes in the body;
combined("Leukogen", "Pentoxyl") - stimulate the biosynthesis of leukocytes in the body, which helps to increase the phagocytic activity of protective cells;
thymus preparations("Taktivin", "Vilozen") - stimulate the proliferation of T-lymphocytes and suppress hypersensitivity to endogenous and exogenous allergens;
based on nucleic acid("Thiophosphamide", "Derinat") - activate the humoral and cellular immunities, which is due to the ability of immunostimulants to activate B-lymphocytes and T-helpers.

Preventive medical examinations can reduce the likelihood of developing infectious diseases. Violation of the performance of a separate system or organ affects the state and resistance of the whole organism. Worm infestations and dysbacteriosis can become an impulse for the activation of pathogens in the ENT organs and, accordingly, the development of a cold.