Yesterday, in the account of the super pediatrician read that children should be given porassasyvat frozen juice for hardening of the throat and prevent colds.
I have to say - this is nonsense!
old tale
Stories about that tempering helps with colds, it emerged from the stories about what triggers a cold chill. For thousands of years people believed that the cold causes a sore throat.
Previously, it was believed, because he did not know about the virus. Then he learned about viruses and decided that cold violates the immunity and so provokes cold. Still doing research and trying to prove that in vitro human viruses better attack chilled mice cells.
Cold excites researchers because it really provokes different ailments and constantly suggests that from it must be bad. I was even on the knee injury can not normally prisovetovat people ice, because they are afraid of the knee chill. This is also nonsense.
My list of real-world problems from the cold
Let me tell you enumerate sores that come in from the cold, and you tell me something can still tell?
Go:
- Frostbite. Well, here it is different Chilblains, trench foot and other effects of the cold, when soldiers or tourists spoil his fingers and ears.
- Hypothermia. The English is fashionable. There are rarely cold, often do not have adequate heating, and sometimes at the elderly +10 degrees can quietly at home to freeze.
- Snot from the cold. They probably had to be put in the first place. Inhalation causes cold air outflow nozzle. It's not cold, but just water from the nose. A reflex.
- Bronchospasm. In asthmatics, cold air causes bronchospasm.
- Headache from cold. Remember from childhood? If you quickly eat a large piece of ice cream, then a sore nose, eyebrow or eye. It's disgusting, but it quickly passes.
- Surfer's ear. Those who fanatically riding on the waves of cold weather in the ear canal bone grows. It turns bone bump near the eardrum. Then it is very difficult to drill out.
- Ear pain from cold. Remember how the cold can dramatically ill ears? This is because in the external ear canal bone is located very close to the skin. Chilled skin shrinks and tries to peel off the bone. It hurts. The pain passes quickly without harm to health.
- Raynaud's syndrome. From the cold fingers turn white and hurt. Meaning a sharp spasm of vessels.
Experts are now alone write about it
Over the last couple of thousand years, no one has proved that ice cream provokes cold. This obscurantism has gone so far that it is now even at cold treatment guidelines are written separately that the cold will not be cold. At the bottom a link to a special serious medical expert source of knowledge, which publishes useful information not only for doctors but also for patients. There's a section where the cold, so directly and say:
"... Colds are not caused by cold climates or being exposed to cold air... ". That is not the case of cold from the cold climate, or inhalation of cold air.
Hardening - this is our fairy tale
It turns out that even before the Americans hard to reach. And we have with this case is even worse. We have fashionable hardening. The sense of hardening was that if the cold cold, gradually accustoming the body to cold, cold winter can then be avoided. Earlier this idea justify the fact that people did not know the meaning of the common cold. But now experts are shouting (again, see the link below) in a loud voice that the cold does not cause colds. So what tempered the cold? That's right, tempering - this is the same bike as the bike about a sore throat from the ice cream.
No tempering! Wash your hands often. Colds are transmitted to us when we touch with dirty hands to the eyes, nose or mouth. Dousing with cold water, in this case does not help.
Patient education: The common cold in adults (Beyond the Basics)
