Back in the days of Nicholas II, people first began to use a completely conservative method to get rid of colds, coughs and other diseases. To do this, cans were used that were heated by fire and mounted on the back or chest of the patient. Today, after studying this treatment method, doctors found many contraindications. However, people still use the methods of their grandparents to get rid of colds and other pathologies.
This popularity of using cans for coughing is due to the low cost of treatment. In many small towns there is no possibility of carrying out more expensive procedures. In addition, cough cans and some other ailments can really help. However, first you need to understand the harmlessness and safety of this method of treatment.
Advantages and disadvantages of the procedure
Today it is impossible to find a doctor’s prescription in which it would be prescribed to use cans for coughing or other colds. However, often in a private conversation, experts offer similar conservative methods of treatment. Most often this happens in villages or very small towns.
However, in medicine there really are special flasks that are used to affect the systems of the human body. Using these products affects the receptors of the skin. Accordingly, the impact is only in a certain area of the human body. In addition, banks are able to accelerate blood circulation.
However, this action has its opposite side. Often, after they put the cans on their backs when coughing, patients notice that unpleasant bruising appears on the skin, which disappears after a while. This suggests that such procedures have a destructive effect on the capillaries. Based on this, this method has many disadvantages.
However, in some situations, such a procedure really helps to increase blood flow, which improves the work of the whole body. Due to this, the organs of the human body are updated due to new blood cells, tissues are better supplied with oxygen. After the procedure and a sharp resumption of blood circulation in those places where banks were installed, a person experiences a state of strong surge of strength. The action of hormones changes. However, such sudden changes are not always useful.
What is the effect of the procedure?
In fact, everything depends on the shape of the products, as well as on the place on which they were installed. It is worth considering that banks can be of different sizes, shapes. Some require heating, and more modern flasks can be immediately installed on the body, without pre-heating.
Only in the event that a person knows how to properly put cans on coughing can a favorable outcome be expected. Unfortunately, many people use this method on a hunch and do not particularly think about the correct technique for using medical flasks.
Thus, the use of cans is almost a Russian roulette. If an inexperienced person installs the product in the wrong place, then in this case he can have an effect on organs for which such measures are contraindicated. You need to understand that when a person sets up jars for coughing or any other illness, a very strong pressure and vacuum is created under the flasks. The skin begins to activate processes that affect the movement of lymph. Even after all the cans are removed from the human skin, the effect of the procedure lasts a few more days. Therefore, it is important that the rules are followed.
Do they put cans on coughing?
Doctors advise using such methods of treatment only if a person suffers from outgoing sputum. If he has an exceptionally dry cough, then there will be no effect from the procedure with banks. If sputum is absent, then this indicates that the patient suffers from a cold. By and large, this is a contraindication to such procedures.
If we are talking about sputum discharge, then in this case, cough cans can be used as the main treatment method. As a rule, a few days after the procedure there is a significant improvement in the condition of a person. At the same time, he does not need to take medications that have a negative effect on the body.
Features of the procedure
If we are talking about sinusitis, acute respiratory viral infections and other pathologies accompanied by abundant sputum production, it is recommended that banks be placed once every 36 hours. After this, you must definitely take a break.
If we talk about the number of cans, then there should be about 5 pieces. They need to be placed at the same distance from each other. If a day after the first procedure the patient does not observe improvement, then the procedure is repeated. If this does not give any result, then it is recommended to turn to the traditional method of treatment or to appear to a specialist.
With bronchitis
People with this diagnosis need to be very careful when performing such procedures. In this case, you can put cans on coughing only if the attending physician agrees.
In acute bronchitis, this method of treatment cannot be used. With this diagnosis, patients most often undergo antibiotic therapy. This should completely exclude any effect or pressure on the skin or increased blood flow.
The only advantage of this method of treatment for bronchitis is that banks help to thin the mucus. As a rule, this fluid is actively released during seizures and painful coughing in humans. Thanks to banks, vasodilation occurs, which relieves pain symptoms and helps activate energy processes.
With pneumonia
If a person suffers from pneumonia, then you need to be extremely attentive to your health. Such a disease always requires that the patient undergo antibiotic treatment. In this case, cough cans can only be used as adjuvants.
Contraindications
Most often, doctors do not recommend using this method of treatment, since it can only aggravate the situation. If a person independently decides to use cans, then this can lead to irreversible processes that can even provoke lung tissue ruptures. Against this background, gangrene can develop.
There are a number of conditions in which a person is strictly forbidden to resort to such a procedure. For example, you can not use banks in any case when:
- elevated temperature;
- oncological diseases;
- tuberculosis
- skin pathologies and infectious ailments;
- viral lung diseases;
- the presence of bloody compartments in sputum.
Also, do not use banks in the treatment of young children under the age of 5 years. It is necessary to be very careful with this procedure for those who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure or bronchial asthma.
If a person has too low weight and even thinness is observed, then this procedure should also be abandoned.
How to put cans on your back when coughing correctly?
First of all, it should be borne in mind that only special glass medical flasks are recommended for this procedure. Only in this case will there be any benefit from such manipulations. Additionally, it is necessary to prepare alcohol, cotton wool, long tweezers and a clean towel.
After this, it is necessary to ask the patient to lie on his stomach and lubricate his back with a small amount of petroleum jelly. If it was not at hand, then you can use a non-greasy cream. After that, a cotton wool is wound on the tweezers so that the design resembles a wick. Next, the soft part of the product is wetted in alcohol or cologne and set on fire. The resulting "torch" for a second is placed in a jar, which must be kept with the hole down. After this, the product must be immediately applied to the patient's body. The skin instantly retracts into the flask and turns red.
When deciding how to put cans on coughing, some people think that cotton wool can be moistened with kerosene, ignition fluid, acetone, and other combustible components. Doing this is by no means impossible.
Specialized banks
It is much easier to use special vacuum flasks that do not need to be heated by fire.
For the correct implementation of this procedure, the patient also needs to be placed in a horizontal position on the stomach. After that, his back is smeared with fir or any massage oil. Before you put the cans on coughing, you do not need to heat them. Accordingly, it is enough to immediately press the flask to the skin.
In this case, the patient should not feel pain. Instead, there will only be pleasant warmth in his body.
In addition, you need to constantly look at the state of the banks. If serious hematomas begin to appear on the skin of the patient, it is better to complete the procedure. It is necessary to remove the banks in turn. To do this, each of them deviates slightly to the side, after which the skin is pressed with a finger at the edge of the product.
If it comes to vacuum jars, then removing them is much easier. To do this, just press a little on the balloon, and the flask will independently move away from the skin. After the procedure, the patient’s back is wiped with a napkin or a clean towel. After that, it is recommended to wrap it in a warm blanket or other clothes for half an hour.
Where to put the banks?
If we are talking about respiratory diseases, then medical flasks are usually installed on the patient's back. If the procedure is performed for a man who is the owner of a thick hair, it is recommended to remove the hair in advance. Otherwise, abundant “wool” will greatly impede the installation of glass products that cannot be fixed on the skin.
Sometimes jars are allowed to be placed on the chest. If the patient suffers from pneumonia or bronchitis and the doctor gives the green light to a similar procedure, then the flasks must be installed on the sides of the spine or in the area under the shoulder blades.
Sometimes banks are used for muscle sprains. In this case, the flasks are installed directly in the place where the patient experiences pain.
In no case can you put banks in the kidneys, breasts of women, the heart and along the spine. This can lead to serious health complications.
How much do jars need to keep for children?
First of all, it is worth saying that this procedure should be carried out with great caution, if it comes to babies. If a specialist permits the use of such funds, then banks need to be installed no longer than 3-7 minutes. By and large, as soon as the last flask was installed, you can begin to remove the first product. If we talk about the duration of treatment, then this procedure is recommended to be performed no more than 1 time in 2 days.
It is worth noting that today, treatment by banks is a very controversial issue. Some experts really confirm the positive impact of this procedure, while other doctors are categorically against such manipulations, since they are sure that this method of treatment cannot be called safe.