A lot of vitamin C helps a lot! The 10 biggest mistakes around the common cold
Do not pull your nose up! You need a lot of vitamin C now! Kiss prohibition !? ? As soon as you lie flat with a cold, you get wise advice on how to behave. But can you really rely on these clever tips? High time to uncover the myths surrounding the common cold.
1. Flu infection and flu are the same
"Grippaler Infekt" is another name for cold. There is often confusion with the flu, but there are some differences to the "real" ones. Flu. This is triggered by influenza and influenza viruses, behind a cold can put various pathogens. Both diseases differ especially in their onset. The real? Influenza usually starts suddenly with headache and body aches, even a sudden fever can occur. A cold slowly creeps in, knocking first with a scratchy neck, a mild cold and maybe a cough. After a week, the cold is usually gone again. The flu can stay longer.
2. A cold is triggered by cold
Not correct! Although cold weakens the defense of the body and pathogens can penetrate more easily, but there is no direct relationship between cold and cold. The common cold viruses only reach us via other persons? especially when shaking hands, we catch the evil ones? Viruses. Wet hair or too thin clothing will not cause a cold.
3. Antibiotics helps
That's not true. Antibiotic is used against bacteria and kills them or stops their multiplication. A cold is usually triggered by viruses. Antibiotics therefore have no chance: they have no effect on a cold. Even with an acute sinusitis, they can do nothing: studies showed that the duration remains the same with and without antibiotics. Antibiotics can be helpful only if bacteria trigger the disease or overlay the viruses.
4. Pulling up the nose is unhealthy
"Do not pull up your nose !? Everyone has heard this sentence from their parents or even said it to their children. It is considered bad behavior. In addition, the mucus stuck: Wrong! In fact, raising your nose is healthier than vigorous pouting. When you clean your nose, the pressure in the nose increases and the pathogens are pushed into the paranasal sinuses? If possible do not blow through both nostrils at the same time, the pressure is even higher! Pulling up occasional nose does not hurt!
5. Sneezing in the hand protects others from contagion
When sneezing and coughing should one hold the hand? that's polite, but it does not protect you from a cold. The viruses cling to the hands, so we spread them on objects and people. And even if we're healthy, every day we touch surfaces that adhere to viruses. To get rid of them and to prevent a cold, it means: wash hands regularly! And best sneeze and cough in a handkerchief or elbow!
6. Hot Grog is doing well
Unfortunately, the warm rum drink does not do any good to a cold person. The alcohol is not conducive to the disease, because the immune system is additionally weakened.
7. In the sauna you sweat out the cold
If it caught us, a sauna is just the wrong thing! The heat of the sauna and the cold shower weakens the defense of our body even more. Thus, the sauna aggravates the symptoms rather than that he improves them. Better suited is a relaxing cold bath? With essential oils (eucalyptus, for example) in the water, you can inhale and clear the respiratory tract at the same time. However, a healthy person's regular heat of the sauna helps to boost the immune system.
8. Sport makes you fit again quickly
Error! Sport also weakens our body in the event of a cold and can even lead to serious sequelae. Therefore you should protect yourself with a cold and rest. Taboo is movement but not: A walk in the fresh air is good!
9. Vitamin C prevents a cold
Not correct! Although we need vitamin C for a functioning immune system, but more vitamin C does not mean at the same time protection against a cold. The amount of vitamin we absorb daily through our food is sufficient. More can not absorb the vitamin C storage, our body excretes the vitamins unprocessed through the urine. Unfortunately, to fight the cold with tons of oranges or vitamin supplements, is not.
10. When kissing you get involved
When kissing we transfer bacteria and viruses, that's right. However, the risk of being infected is low. The pathogens reach the stomach in the saliva, where they are decomposed by the stomach acid and killed.But beware of coughing and sneezing! If you sneeze and touch your partner, the risk of infection is much higher than kissing. The fingers should therefore rather with you leave.
