How to put cans on your back when coughing
The content of the article:
- How to put cans on your back when coughing
- The benefits and harms of medical cans
- Video
The answer to the question of how to put cans on your back when coughing is of interest to many people. A few decades ago, coughs for colds, bronchitis and pneumonia were often treated with mustard plasters, rubbing the chest with warming ointments, and cans. Currently, when effective medicines are available, these procedures are rarely prescribed by doctors, but still they have not completely lost their relevance.
The procedure for setting medical cans, popular several decades ago, raises great doubts about its effectiveness
How to put cans on your back when coughing
Above, we have already found out that banks can be used in the complex therapy of respiratory infections, but only at the stage of recovery and only in adults. However, it is quite difficult to put them on their own at home by a person who does not have medical education. Therefore, we will tell you in detail about the technique for performing this procedure.
Medical jars are small glass cones. Before use, they should be washed with soap under running water and then thoroughly wiped off with a dry towel.
The patient is asked to lie on his stomach and put his hands on the back of the head. The back is generously smeared with petroleum jelly or any fatty cream. This promotes better adhesion of the cans to the skin.
A small piece of cotton wool is wound on the tweezers to form a kind of wick. Moisten it in alcohol and shake off excess alcohol so that drops do not fall on the patient's skin.
The wick is set on fire. The jar is taken in the left hand and a burning wick is introduced into it for 1-2 seconds, making sure that the edges of the jar are not heated, and then quickly applied to the skin. Under the influence of heat, the air inside the can expands and part of it goes out. As a result, a vacuum is formed inside and the jar is sucked to the skin. Do not use ether instead of alcohol, as it is explosive and can cause serious burns to both the patient and the person performing the procedure.
After all cans have been delivered, the patient is covered with a blanket.
Banks are categorically contraindicated to be placed on the chest, heart area, above the spine and shoulder blades, as well as in the lumbar region above the kidneys. Where to put jars on your back when coughing, the schemes available in reference books and on medical Internet sites make it possible to better understand.
You should also know about how long to keep the banks. The duration of the procedure should not exceed 15 minutes.
To remove can II, press the skin as close to the edge of the can with the finger of the left hand as possible. Simultaneously with this right hand, they pull the can from the same edge towards themselves. This allows air to penetrate into the cone, with the result that it is easily separated from the skin.
After the cans are removed from the skin, with a clean cotton swab dipped in alcohol, remove the remains of petroleum jelly and recommend that the patient stay in bed under a blanket for at least 30-40 minutes.
If you carefully follow all the recommendations, it is not difficult to place banks.
If you have never tried placing cans before, it is better if for the first time another person with relevant experience will help you. If you still have any questions, it is recommended to watch a video where experienced nurses show in detail the technique of setting them.
Currently, many firms have begun to supply plastic cans to the pharmacy chain. They are much more convenient and safer to use. You do not need to use an open flame to set them. The jar is slightly squeezed from the sides and placed tightly against the skin. Due to its elasticity, it takes its previous shape, a vacuum is formed in it and the jar is sucked to the skin. For removal, the can is squeezed from the sides again, and it is easily separated from the skin.
The benefits and harms of medical cans
Medical banks are a type of distracting procedure. Modern medicine is skeptical about them. In new textbooks, monographs, serious clinical guidelines, there are no recommendations to put cans on your back when coughing. But in old editions of handbooks for nurses and paramedics, as well as in popular science articles for parents, such methods are described as quite effective. So is there any benefit to cans or massage cans? Let's try to understand this issue.
To date, there are no scientific studies to support the effect of canning on respiratory infections. Such studies have not been carried out, which has a completely logical explanation.
The duration of the ARVI course is usually 5-7 days. It is impossible to reduce this duration of the disease, since it is due to the period of formation of antibodies and interferons in the patient's body. It is impossible to prove by any scientific methods that the patient's recovery after a week did not occur as a result of the production of protective antibodies or interferons, but due to bank treatment.
Previously, the mechanism of action of cans on the human body was explained as follows: under the influence of heat and vacuum, the blood vessels expand and the blood supply to the organs exposed is improved, which contributes to the launch of regenerative processes, accelerates recovery. But is it really so?
At the heart of any acute inflammatory process is initially vasodilation and stagnation of blood in the affected organ. Thus, in the acute phase of a respiratory disease, when the patient's general well-being significantly worsens and the body temperature rises, any distracting procedures, including the setting of cups, are contraindicated, as it will provoke an increase in inflammation.
With an uncomplicated course of ARVI, after the inflammation activity subsides, the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract is restored on its own within a few days without any outside participation. If we talk about more serious diseases, for example, bronchitis or pneumonia, it is clear that it will take more time to restore damaged tissues. In this case, thermal procedures that improve blood circulation can really help speed up recovery.
The use of cups in the projection of the respiratory tract leads to the expansion of the skin capillaries, stimulates the blood flow in them. But does this mean that the activation of blood circulation also occurs in deeper tissues, such as subcutaneous tissue, muscles, pleura, lung parenchyma, bronchial mucosa? Of course not, since the heat and vacuum of the cans are insignificant and, according to physical laws, can only affect the surface layers of the skin.
Instead of outdated glass medical jars, you can use special plastic
Summarizing what has been said, the following conclusions can be drawn:
- Putting jars in the acute period of respiratory diseases is contraindicated.
- During the recovery period, banks can be used, however, the effectiveness of the procedure raises great doubts.
You should also be aware that banks cause irreversible damage to the microvasculature, disrupt blood circulation in the skin, and can cause the formation of significant hematomas.
Contraindications to their appointment are:
- acute infectious diseases;
- decreased blood clotting, for example, against the background of anticoagulant therapy or liver disease;
- all types of skin diseases;
- tuberculosis;
- benign and malignant tumors;
- an implanted pacemaker;
- Heart arythmy;
- arterial hypertension II-III degree.
Parents often ask pediatricians whether it is possible to put cans in children when coughing. According to pediatricians, this procedure is absolutely contraindicated for babies under one year old and undesirable for older children. The well-known pediatrician Komarovsky EO said in one of his programs: "Putting cans on a child is parental banditry, and doing can massage is a double parental banditry."
In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that only a doctor should treat any disease. The setting of cans is a procedure that has both its own indications and contraindications, therefore, they should be placed only as prescribed by a specialist.
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Elena Minkina Doctor anesthesiologist-resuscitator About the author
Education: graduated from the Tashkent State Medical Institute, specializing in general medicine in 1991. Repeatedly passed refresher courses.
Work experience: anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the city maternity complex, resuscitator of the hemodialysis department.
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