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Are harmful publications in which the author of all turns upside down. That is, for example, the cause of the problem presents its solution. I can not stand this! Well, something like headaches recommend banging your head against the wall. So the story of the reflex of the ear ...
They write that in order to remove the sore throat, you need to gently massage the ear, it is best from the inside. Type of discomfort are due to muscle spasm. Acting on the ear, we stimulate the nerves, helps to relax muscles and relieve spasm.
It is of course a lie!
This is about Arnold's reflex. If to scratch in the ear, then the tickle and cough appear. The point is the twig of the vagus nerve. That is exactly what is said in the above author source. in plain English it says that:
... We stimulated the external auditory meatus with a cotton bud and this triggered a hypersensitive cough reflex ...
That is, the English-speaking researchers combed cotton swab people's ears and provoke coughing.
There's even a special word is - triggered. From the words of the trigger - the trigger. Launched this trigger coughing.
This is already done in patients with dementia
Such reflex may actually be useful. There are old people with dementia, who are already not thinking and not get up out of bed. They often poperhivayutsya and can not in time to clear his throat. From this they have cases of severe pneumonia. From this old die of pneumonia. For prevention it would be useful to do breathing exercises (at the bottom there is a link to the complex of exercises), but due to dementia, the head does not work anymore, and nothing happens.
Someone had the idea to stimulate this reflex elderly Arnold. It causes coughing, and helps to clean the respiratory tract.
Patients lubricated external auditory meatus capsaicin ointment. capsaicin - a pungent components of pepper. He irritated sensitive area in the ear, and patient coughs. Thereafter pneumonia have occurred rarely. Very useful invention.
When it's bad
There are other studies, where contrary studied people with chronic cough. There, every third patient has this reflex. Maybe just from his people and coughing.
How did they treat? Scratching the ears? What for? The more they scratch their ears, the more they will cough. Those unfortunates had to give an anticonvulsant, which is used for burning neuropathic pain. This means inhibit the activity of branches of the vagus nerve, and so it was possible to reduce the cough.
Our author proposed to treat cough and sore by the method that on the contrary provokes these symptoms. Cruel!
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