Essential: fight pain
The flu is often accompanied by aches and fatigue that it is important to relieve to get back in shape as quickly as possible. Of course, there is no specific treatment for the flu, but painkillers can relieve the symptoms. With, despite everything, a small preference for paracetamol, which causes fewer side effects (1000 mg, three times a day maximum).
Do not worry if the fatigue lasts longer than a week: it is a period of convalescence usually observed in the event of the flu.
Imperative: hydrate yourself
To recover faster after a bad cold or the flu, it is important to drink plenty of water because water helps to liquefy the secretions in the lungs. Preferably drink tea because it contains theophylline, a natural bronchodilator that prevents abnormal contraction of the bronchi.
If your throat is sore, add a teaspoon of honey to your tea: it not only soothes the irritation, it also stimulates the production of saliva, which also helps to loosen mucus.
Invigorating: drink chicken broth
This remedy has been used for centuries not without reason: Cysteine, an amino acid released by poultry during cooking, is chemically similar to a common medicine for the treatment of bronchitis. Chicken broth thins mucus and soothes symptoms of a sore throat and nose. As for vitamin A from carrots and sulfur compounds from onions, they stimulate the immune system and act as a barrier against viruses.
Necessary: avoid superinfection
Once you are on the road to recovery, it is important to avoid coming into contact with someone who also has a cold or the flu. Indeed, your immune defenses are far from having returned to the top, and you risk a relapse a little more severe. As in a period of a gastro epidemic, remember to wash your hands as often as possible: it is the essential gesture to prevent the spread of viruses.
Useful: boost your immune system
To give a little boost to the immune defenses well weakened by the flu virus, do not hesitate to take a course of probiotics. These food supplements contain lactobacilli, bacteria good for health, which strengthen the microbiota, which is well disturbed by influenza virus attacks. In addition, probiotics reduce the duration and severity of the breathing problems that accompany the flu.
Finally, do not hesitate to turn to adaptogenic plants, that is to say plants that increase the ability of our body to adapt to different stresses, such as ginseng or rhodiola which rebalance the body quite well. organization.
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