Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article, I will collect a set of popular questions from a year ago.
Question: No pain relievers help me.
Answer: Painkillers always help. It's only a matter of the dose and combination of different drugs.
Question: No-shpa relieves muscle spasm in the back?
Answer: No. No-spa does not relieve muscle spasm in the back, because it acts only on the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract. The muscles in the back are skeletal. No-shpa does not work on them.
Question: How to treat a cold so that it does not turn into sinusitis?
Answer: There is no treatment that can prevent the development of bacterial complications of the common cold. The probability of complications is about 5%. If, against the background of a cold, the body temperature rises again, and a lot of purulent snot appears, then this is it.
Question: Does paracetamol have a therapeutic effect like other anti-inflammatory drugs?
Answer: No, paracetamol is not an anti-inflammatory drug. He stands alone. Paracetamol has a good antipyretic and analgesic effect, but it has no anti-inflammatory effect. Therefore, paracetamol irritates the stomach less than anti-inflammatory drugs.
Question: How to properly extinguish soda with boiling water?
Answer: Boiling water does not extinguish soda. When quenching, soda is mixed with acid. Then carbon dioxide is released, and the soda becomes less alkaline. It all depends on the amount of acid. If there is too much acid, then nothing will remain of the alkali. There will be only acid. If the soda is heated, then carbon dioxide is released from it, but this is not quenching, because the alkaline properties in the soda will only increase. The heating turns the baking soda into soda ash. Soda ash is more alkaline and more caustic. It turns out that by heating baking soda, we make it not softer, but rather more caustic.
Question: How much salt should be in mineral water for people to like it.
Answer: Mineral water is water containing at least one gram of salt per liter. People like water with a minimum of salt. Most of all, people like demineralized or distilled water. People also like alkali and dissolved oxygen in water. If someone has to collect dirty water, and then filter and boil it, then they are offered to cool such water, and shake it well in a bottle before use. This dissolves air bubbles in the water and improves the taste.
Question: If ground-level ozone is bad for your health, are ozone air purifiers bad?
Answer: Harmful. Ozonizers are harmful in and of themselves. Some other purifiers can produce ozone too. These are devices based on photocatalysis or electrostatic. If the smell of ozone spreads from air purifiers, then its concentration is clearly higher than safe.
Question: What about the fresh and pleasant smell of a thunderstorm? Is it harmful too?
Answer: Thunderstorms are relatively rare and short-lived. There is never a lot of ozone from them. Moreover, in addition to ozone during a thunderstorm, harmful ozone compounds and other nasty things are also obtained. A pleasant smell is not a reason. Many people like the smell of beer, but this does not mean that it is healthy and you can revel in it until you forget.
There may be other pleasant smells after a thunderstorm. There is a chance that it is they who are attracted. Usually this petrikor - the smell of wet earth. This smell appears during rain, when bubbles appear and burst in the mud. From each collapsed bubble, vegetable oils and waste products of soil microbes get into the air. Evolution has made this scent attractive to us because it is associated with seed germination and the onset of a favorable period.
Do you like the smell of rain?
