Milk with soda for cough: recipes for children and adults
The content of the article:
- Indications and contraindications for use
- How to prepare and how to take milk and baking soda to treat cough
- What can be added to milk with soda to enhance the effect
- Video
Milk with soda for coughing is one of the most common traditional medicines, mainly due to its availability.
According to reviews, milk with cough soda is most effective for dry coughs. Patients note a positive effect literally immediately after its application.
Milk intended for the treatment of cough must be high in fat
You need to understand that milk with soda, despite the available beneficial properties, cannot act as the main one, since its therapeutic effect is not enough. However, as an adjunct to mainstream therapy, it can be beneficial, especially when used correctly. It is recommended that you consult your doctor before using any medication.
Indications and contraindications for use
The cough is different for different diseases. So, with laryngitis, a reflex dry cough is often observed, which is accompanied by a hoarse voice, discomfort in the throat. With tracheitis, attacks of dry cough occur, which is aggravated in the morning and evening. Cough with bronchitis is often accompanied by pain in the chest, it can be short-term (last up to 3 weeks) and chronic (worsening for at least 2 years). Chronic cough is also characteristic of bronchial asthma, allergies, and tuberculosis.
Milk and soda is used to treat various types of cough. The remedy is effective against sore throat, hoarseness, loss of voice. Milk with soda has an expectorant effect, has a softening effect on irritated respiratory tract.
It is important to follow the dosage of baking soda, as using too much can lead to diarrhea. This is especially undesirable for colds, when there is increased sweating and a large amount of fluid is lost.
Milk with soda can be taken during pregnancy and during breastfeeding, but it is undesirable to give to infants - they may develop allergies, laryngospasm may occur.
Contraindications include lactase deficiency, the patient's age less than three years, the presence of diarrhea and other disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Milk with soda is not prescribed for allergic cough and whooping cough.
How to prepare and how to take milk and baking soda to treat cough
To prepare a remedy, you need to take 1 glass of milk and ½ teaspoon of baking soda. It is advisable to take as fatty milk as possible (the exception is children under 7 years old, for them milk with a fat content of more than 3.2% is not recommended), since low-fat milk does not have a softening effect on the irritated throat.
To prepare the drug, milk is heated, then soda is added to it, stirred until it dissolves in milk and given to the patient, offering to drink in small sips. It is not recommended to drink hot milk, as this can lead to a burn of the mucous membrane, which will only aggravate the inflammation. You should drink a drink with a temperature not higher than 55 ° C. Adults and teenagers are recommended to drink 1 glass of milk 2-3 times a day, children under 12 years old - ¼- ½ glass of milk. The last intake of the remedy is recommended before going to bed.
The medicinal product must be prepared immediately before use, since even short storage reduces the effectiveness of the mixture.
The disadvantages of milk with soda are not very pleasant taste. For patients (especially children) who cannot drink the remedy, soda can be replaced with mineral water. For these purposes, Borjomi is used, milk and mineral water are mixed in a 1: 1 ratio.
What can be added to milk with soda to enhance the effect
A popular recipe for milk with cough soda for adults, containing cognac. Add 1 tablespoon of brandy to 1 glass of the product.
You can add ½ teaspoon honey to a glass of milk. However, before treating a cough with milk, soda and honey, you need to make sure that the patient is not allergic to bee products.
Also, to increase the effectiveness, carrot, birch sap or maple syrup can be added to the drug.
In order to liquefy and increase the amount of phlegm, a pinch of salt can be added to milk with soda.
You can include ½ teaspoon of cocoa butter in the mixture, which helps to soften dry coughs and remove phlegm.
In addition, figs (fresh or dried) can be added to milk with soda. To do this, in 1 glass of milk, you need to boil 4 figs for adults or 2 for children. The fruits can be cooked whole or chopped. Remove the milk from the heat, allow to cool and add soda. Figs are eaten and milk is drunk.
A little butter may be added, which is dissolved in warm milk. The drug is used in 100 ml in the morning, no later than 30 minutes before meals, and in the evening before bedtime.
Cinnamon (1/3 teaspoon) and honey can be added to milk with baking soda. The mixture should be drunk at night.
To prepare a cough medicine according to a popular folk recipe, you need to mix 1 beaten egg yolk, 1 tablespoon each of butter and honey, 1 glass of milk and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda. Dissolve the butter in hot milk, but cool the mixture a little before adding honey and soda. The remedy is good for laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis. Take 1 glass several times a day.
Milk with soda, infused with oats, is taken 3 to 6 times a day
Milk with soda and oats: 500 g of oats are poured into 2 liters of hot milk, the mixture is kept in a thermos for 3 hours, then filtered, a pinch of soda is added to the glass. Drink 100 ml 20-30 minutes before meals 3-6 times a day.
Sour foods, as well as essential oils, horseradish should not be added to the milk-soda mixture.
Any prescription for cough soda milk for babies must be approved by a healthcare professional.
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Anna Aksenova Medical journalist About the author
Education: 2004-2007 "First Kiev Medical College" specialty "Laboratory Diagnostics".
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