Cough Inhalation

Inhalations can be done in simple old ways: to breathe over a kettle, a saucepan or to use modern nebulizers and inhalers. But in any case, when performing inhalations with cough, it is necessary to observe the rules for their intake:
1. The procedure can be taken an hour before meals.
2. After the end of inhalation is not recommended for an hour to talk, sing, take food.
3. During inhalation with a cold, one should breathe only with the nose, and with a cough and sore throat should be inhaled through the mouth and exhaled through the nose
4. Do not combine oil and steam inhalations.
5. Session time from 5 to 15 minutes.
6. Ten treatments are recommended for treatment.
7. If you are inclined to allergic reactions, it is necessary to conduct a preliminary test for the sensitivity of essential oils and infusions on the elbow, to look at the reaction after 20 minutes and after a day.

There are several types of inhalations, such as: steam, heat and oil inhalations and aerophytotherapy, halotherapy, aeroionotherapy, which are the types of inhalations that are becoming increasingly popular.

Very useful inhalation for coughing with a nebulizer, which acts locally with aerosol from small particles of medicines that can penetrate deeply into the bronchi and lungs. Such an inhaler is convenient and easy to use, it has a mask or tip, which allows more comfortable and pleasant treatment.

With pain in the throat, steam inhalations are used. To do this, you can brew oregano, chamomile, sage, thyme, taking 1 tbsp. L herb per 1 glass of water. And you can use rapidly evaporating essential oils, such as: eucalyptus, pine oil, menthol or fir, 10 drops per half a glass of water, heat up to 55-65 degrees and conduct inhalation. Breath over boiling water is not worth it, always have to cool the broth.
At an elevated temperature, suppurative angina, or puffiness, inhalations are contraindicated.

Steam inhalations for coughing are done with the mother and stepmother, thyme, ledum, and elecampane. But it is much more effective to use warm-moisture inhalations with Borjomi mineral water, with a mixture of chamomile, sage, eucalyptus, calendula and St. John's wort or from ready-made pharmacies of calendula or chlorophyllipt to reduce cough and sputum discharge.

With a throat, hoarseness and loss of voice, oil inhalations will be effective, for 5 minutes, for 7 days. For this use peach, eucalyptus, sea-buckthorn, camphor oil, propolis with olive oil. All of them perfectly remove dryness, soften the mucous membrane and protect it from various irritations.

Teplyvazhnye inhalation for cough and runny nose is good to conduct with honey, which dissolves in warm water 1: 5. This solution can be filled with a nebulizer and sprayed into the nose and throat for 10 minutes. In the beginning, you have to inhale through the nose, and exhale through the mouth, and then vice versa. The temperature of the solution used should not be more than 38-40 degrees. Contraindications for inhalation are tuberculosis, pleurisy, acute pneumonia and severe heart disease.

Inhalation during a cough of non-allergic nature can be carried out in the form of aerophytotherapy. To do this, you can put bottles in the room with essential oils of eucalyptus, coriander, basil for antibacterial effect, you can breathe over steam with water, in which you can drip some essential oil, you can take aromatic fragrance and breathe fragrances for an hour. Contraindications to such sessions are severe heart and lung diseases, pregnancy and individual intolerance. Children are very careful with such procedures.

During pregnancy, inhalation during a cough is carried out with different herbs. So, when dry cough use sage, lime color, chamomile, and when coughing with phlegm apply a leaf of cowberry, ledum, plantain, Borjomi or soda solution.

Inhalations are carried out by compression and ultrasonic nebulizers. The latter are very convenient for children, but it must be remembered that when they are used many medications in them are destroyed by ultrasound.