Water never enters any first-aid kit, but perhaps it should be. In various forms, from steam to solid ice, water can be used to prevent and alleviate many minor diseases. These applications are fairly well known, but in this age of modern, sophisticated medicine, this modest but effective potion has been almost forgotten. Here are some ways with water. Try it. Trust it.
Control of fever: When the body temperature rises high, it must be quickly monitored. The surface of the patient's body with warm (not cold) water can help reduce fever. Water should be able to evaporate as much as possible without wiping it.
Sore throat: Rinsing is a measure to relieve a sore throat that makes swallowing so painful. It does a lot to ease discomfort and fight infection. Formula: Half a teaspoon of salt in one glass of warm (non-evaporating) water. Rinse three or four times a day. It is working!
Burns: The best first aid for burns is cold running water (not ice), applied immediately. Keep the burned areas under the running valve - rapid cooling minimizes damage to deeper tissues.
Constipation: If you are prone to constipation, try increasing your water intake to 8 glasses a day. Storing a glass of water on your side and sipping from time to time makes it easier to consume than trying to eat huge glass items at a time.
Diarrhea: Oddly enough, water that relieves constipation is equally necessary for people with diarrhea. Much of the weakness associated with diarrhea comes from dehydration. Week of the person with diarrhea should be fed with water, drink or not.
Dehydration! What is it?
Simply put, dehydration is drying out or loss of moisture. Wet clothes become suitable for wearing through dehydration, the grapes are transformed into raisins due to dehydration. But when applied to a person, dehydration takes on a rather gloomy meaning. If he is not monitored on time, he may even be fatal.
Dehydration occurs when a large amount of water in the body is lost, but not replenished. When the water content in the body falls below a safe level, which leads to moderate dehydration, which can progress to dehydration. Whether moderate or severe, dehydration is dangerous and should be promptly corrected.
Risk of dehydration: Anyone who loses more water than he takes can happen to people with diarrhea, severe vomiting, high fever with bouts of sweating or those who lose excessive amounts of water through urine due to unworked diabetes and soon. Infants and children can enter dehydration rather quickly, and therefore older people can.
How to recognize dehydration: moderate dehydration can be installed even before the doctor sees the patient. As a safe measure, another family member must learn to observe these symptoms; dry mouth and tongue, chapped lips, reduced urine output, skin that looks thin and weak rather than moist and firm. A baby crying without tears or repeatedly licking his lips can also be dehydrated.
How to control dehydration: Prevention is better than cure, of course, refers to dehydration / As soon as a person begins to suffer from diarrhea or vomit more than three or four times, he must make sure that he consumes enough water or other fluids, even if he is not thirsty. A few sips now and then easier to hold than large quantities.
A gravely ill person cannot indicate thirst or be careful enough to drink. Such a person should be fed boiled, cooked water 2 or 3 spoons at a time, every five or 10 minutes. Any light liquid is suitable, but milk is not recommended. A liter of boiled, cooked water with six teaspoons of sugar and half a teaspoon of salt is the formula recommended for oral rehydration. Coconut water is also excellent.
Severe hydration, however, cannot be controlled only by oral rehydration, especially when the patient has vomiting. In this case, you need the help of a doctor and quickly!
Dehydration is only a side effect of another disease, but sometimes it can be more deadly than the disease itself. Fortunately, this is an easily preventable condition.
Urinary tract infections: if you are prone to this, always drink a lot of water, especially I feel that an attack occurs, with burning symptoms during urination and low back pain. A very minor infection can literally be washed away with water.
Stretch: Hot water is no longer the recommended means for sprains. Ice is the right help. Make an ice pack by trying several cubes in a cloth and apply on stretching. Prevents swelling, reduces pain.
Water exercises: They are recommended for people with disabilities or too obese. Known as aqua aerobics, they are made in a shallow pool. Water is 12 times stronger than air. Walking through it strengthens the muscles more than walking on the ground.
You can also burn more calories in water if you are really working on it. A walk with three miles per hour in the middle of the thigh deep water uses 450 calories per hour - almost twice as much as the land going at speed.
The water buoys that you lift allow you to move your limbs more freely and easily than on land, gives you the exercise you need - without any hard work.
Aches and pain relief: water is a good carrier of temperature, so where warmth and cold are needed, water can help. Heat relieves muscle or skeletal pain, the type of arthritis, or bad back or pain due to injury or exercise. Soaking warm water causes blood vessels to expand. Blood flows from swollen joints, so that they are slightly desensitized, temporarily relieving pain. Using hot water bottles helps.
Overloaded chests: Water is the best expectorant. Frequent sipping of warm water helps reduce sputum, relieves cough.
Enema: What people hate about when in good health, but a great relief for those who suffer from stubborn constipation! Enema involves the introduction of water into the intestines to cause a bowel movement.
Nose bleed: A cloth soaked in chilled water or an ice pack can help control bleeding from the nose. Old, this cold compress in the back of the nose or occiput before the bleeding.
