Medical Salt Expert: Instructions for the use of physiological saline to support the treatment of colds

1. What is a cold?

Cold is a common disease in Vietnam, especially during the changing seasons, weather changes, or large temperature differences at different times of the day. Colds are common in all subjects, but children and the elderly are the two most likely to get sick.

Colds are common respiratory viral infections. Colds and flu are often confused due to having relatively similar symptoms. However, colds are milder than flu but still cause fatigue, reduce work efficiency, reduce energy, and affect daily life.

For adults and people with good resistance, colds do not cause serious effects, but this disease has a great impact on children. Children with weak respiratory systems, immature immune systems if they encounter adverse factors such as viruses, they will seriously affect respiratory organs such as lungs, bronchi

This is a common disease and hardly causes serious effects on the health of adults, but it does have a great impact on children if they have it. The reason is because young children have an immature immune system, if they encounter adverse conditions, they can affect respiratory organs such as lungs and bronchi.

 2. Common causes and symptoms of a cold

2.1. Causes

·     Colds are caused viruses, the most common of which are viruses of the Rhinovirus strain, or Enterovirus. The virus enters the human body mainly through the eyes, nose, mouth, or also through airborne droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

·      Cases of viral infections caused by contact with objects containing the virus when touching or sharing items with sick people have been rarely recorded.

 

2.2 Common symptoms 

After the body is infected with the pathogenic virus for about 2-3 days, the patient will have manifestations of the disease acting on the sinus, nose, throat organs, lasting from 3-7 days. The first 3 days or so are the most likely to cross-infect others.

The common cold will only show mild symptoms, the disease can resolve on its own after 1 week of symptoms. Symptoms can vary from person to person depending on the body's immune system, here are some of the most common symptoms:

• Nasal congestion, shortness of breath.
• Excessive nasal discharge, tearfulness.
• Cough.
• Sore throat, sore throat.
• Headaches, body aches.
• Sneeze.
• Slight fever.
• Feeling tired in person.

Some sufferers may experience loss of taste, swollen lymph nodes. Besides, you often feel pressure in your ears and face when you have a cold.

Although the disease can go away on its own in a few days, there are also some cases that are not treated in time, the cold will cause a number of complications for the body, such as asthma, otitis media, acute sinusitis or other secondary infections.

3.     3. Signs of needing to go to the hospital.

When an adult has the disease, you need to contact your doctor or go to the hospital if after drug treatment there are still symptoms such as:

• High fever above 38.5 degrees Celsius for 5 days or more or sudden fever after a period of fever stoppage.
• There are frequent shortness of breath, wheezing.
• Severe, prolonged sore throat and headache.
• Severe sinus disease.

In the case of children with colds, it is recommended to pay attention to the child more often, because the disease in children will be dangerous, progressing more seriously faster than for adults. If not treated in time, it can lead to pneumonia or bronchitis in a child. Therefore, take your child to a medical facility as soon as he or she has the following symptoms:

• Children aged 1 - 4 months have a fever of 38 degrees Celsius.
• Fever increases or persists for more than 2 days.
• Symptoms in children do not improve or show signs of increasing.
• The child has a cough, shortness of breath, wheezing.
• Loss of appetite, fatigue.
• Earache, headache.
• Abnormal drowsiness, disturbance of consciousness.

44. ANSO Smart Salt Supports the Treatment of Colds

A cold is an uncomplicated pathology, the treatment of which is mainly focused on the symptoms of the disease. The pharmacist or doctor may prescribe analgesics, antipyretic, decongestant sprays, cough medicines to help alleviate the symptoms of the disease.

In addition, patients can also apply some simple treatment measures that are also very effective and have been applied a lot such as clean nose, mouth and throat with physiological saline solution.

Clean your nose by blowing your nose, pushing out mucus and nasal discharge to prevent them from penetrating deeper, avoiding more severe disease.

Clean your mouth and throat by rinsing your mouth 2-4 times a day with highly antiseptic saline, which soothes throat burning pain and effectively fights inflammation.

How to perform ANSO smart salt nasal lavage:

Step 1: Prepare the spray tool, saline warms the optimum temperature of the water equal to body temperature.

Step 2: Mix the ANSO salt package with 500 ml of warm water into a 0.9% ANSO medical salt solution.

Step 3: Place the nozzle of the saline spray tool on one side of the nostril and spray, spray about 120 ml of water into the nasal cavity, tilt the head so that the salt water flows back through the other nasal cavity more easily, repeat the same movement with the other side of the nose.

Step 4: After washing, blow your nose gently to remove residual salt water easily.

Note:

- You should stand near the sink, keep your head down near the sink to prevent nasal discharge from flowing to the floor, if you see nasal discharge running down your throat, you should lower your head, try not to tilt your head back when washing without swallowing water

-  For infants, only 2-3 drops of saline should be put into the baby's nostrils, then put a nasal straw on the other side of the nasal cavity to suck the saline out more conveniently

-  For infants, it is recommended to use a straw that adjusts itself by adult suction to avoid too strong a suction force that damages the baby's nasal mucosa. For babies over 2 years old, rubber nasal straws can be used.