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 DEFINITION
Cold is the generic denomination of a group of frequent illnesses, caused normally by virus. They have a high contagion grade across the air (cough and sneezes) or for physical contact (handkerchiefs, silverware to eat, etc...). Taking certain precautions like wrapping up it facing sneezing or to wash his/her/its hands often they can help to prepare the illness or, rather, his transmission.
In general there are a problem of health extensively extended that turns out to be favored by the changes of temperature and by other circumstances that increase the vulnerability of the persons, such as the stress, lacking in rest or inappropriate diet.
The most usual symptoms are the nasal distillation, sneezes, tearful eyes, inconveniences of gullet, hoarseness and cough, even if headaches can exist also and muscular and light fever.
These processes are not treated by medicines. These will only do that the symptoms are less annoying. The reference is spontaneous if it is not complicated by bacterial infections. Namely the natural defenses of the organism restore the normality in less than one week.
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DOMESTIC GENERAL MEASUREMENTS
- If there is fever, rest in bed, in fresh and not very dry room, with light clothes and abundant consumption of liquids to restore the water eliminated by the sudoración.
- To avoid the physical effort.
- Semiliquid diet with a lot of milk, broths, juices of fruit and other healthy and appetizing food
- The smokers owe to abstain from smoking.
TREATMENT
There are many medicines to relieve the symptoms: headache, nasal congestion, had a runny nose, cough, etc.
He advises himself to use products with few ingredients, to face only to the symptoms that are present in every moment and individual.
Often a soft analgesic can be enough.
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IT IS NECESSARY TO CONSULT THE DOCTOR...
- If it is not improved in five days, since there can be a bacterial infection that is precise to treat.
- In case of patients especially sensitive: elders, children, chronic patients or flagging persons.
- In case of frontal pain, fever of more than 39 grades, persistent hoarseness, make difficult to breathe or repetitive, dry and painful cough.
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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