Therapy of angina should be carried out under the supervision of a physician in compliance with all prescriptions, including taking prescribed medications. However, therapy can be supplemented with other beneficial procedures, such as gargling with sea salt. But only the correctly prepared solution will allow you to get the desired effect.
The benefits of sea salt
Practice shows that gargling with such a solution in the treatment of tonsillitis and other inflammatory diseases of the throat is a highly effective alternative method. It is quite simple to rinse, even the smallest children can be taught this procedure.
In addition to sore throat therapy, rinsing will allow you to get rid of the unpleasant odor coming from the oral cavity, to alleviate the condition with dental disease.
A solution of sea gargle will be safe for the treatment of young children, pregnant women.
How to get it?
The product is obtained by evaporation of ordinary sea water and subsequent purification of crystals. Further processing of the salt is not performed, its crystals are packed in a waterproof package, sent for storage to rooms protected from moisture.
Sea salt, unlike simple, table salt, contains many chemical elements. Some salt samples may contain more than 90 trace elements.
As a rule, salt is enriched in fluorine, aluminum, zinc, copper, manganese, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, iodine. All these components of sea salt help to suppress the process of reproduction of pathogenic agents, their destruction, as well as stopping the process of inflammation in the throat and oral cavity.
To gargle with sea salt, it is important to properly prepare the solution.
Proper saline preparation
It is important to follow the recommendations for the manufacture of the solution. This will not only not harm, but also get the maximum therapeutic effect. Salt must be diluted using warm water, which was boiled in advance. For each half teaspoon of salt, it is recommended to take 200 grams of water.
The rinse procedure should begin after the crystals have completely dissolved. A solution made in this way is suitable for rinsing the mouth with gum disease and deep processing of the throat. Increasing the concentration of the solution is not recommended.
How to dilute sea salt for gargling, everyone should know.
Frequency of procedures
The frequency of the procedures can be independently adjusted by the patient; there are no clear instructions regarding the frequency of use. The greatest effectiveness can be obtained by gargling every half hour. The fluid should have a temperature slightly higher than body temperature. Do not use very hot water, as it is possible to get a burn. And this is extremely undesirable for inflammation in the throat.
If it is necessary to rinse the affected tooth, it is important to use cooler water.
Use of the solution for the treatment of angina
Gargling with sea salt comprehensively affects all organs located in the oral cavity, effectively eliminates pathogens, stimulates the activity of the salivary glands, the secret of which also helps in eliminating the infection. Under the influence of salt, acidity is restored in the pharynx and oral cavity, acids are neutralized, the burning sensation is reduced, and pain is relieved. The solution allows you to remove excess mucus, normalize blood flow, accelerate the recovery of affected mucous membranes.
There is another recipe for preparing a gargle with sea salt, which will be useful for tonsillitis. To get it, you should add a teaspoon without top of soda to the saline prepared according to the specified recipe. This will reduce the soreness that occurs when coughing, eliminate the symptoms of drying out, have a beneficial effect on swollen tissues, and create a barrier that prevents the growth of new bacteria.
Recommendations for using the specified solution of salt and soda for the throat are quite simple:
- The water used should have a temperature of no more than 40 degrees.
- The total rinse should be 5 minutes, and each series should be at least 20 seconds.
- Before each procedure, it is necessary to prepare a fresh solution, since during long storage it loses its properties.
- After rinsing, you should refrain from eating food for half an hour.
- In cases where the patient has gastritis or ulcerative lesions of the stomach, it is important to exercise caution - it is not recommended to swallow salt water, since it causes severe irritation when it enters the stomach.
Contraindications for rinsing
The rinse procedure is undeniably useful only in cases where:
- The patient does not have tuberculosis, cancer.
- The patient does not have a fever.
It is also contraindicated to rinse children up to 2 years. This is due to the complexity of the explanations for a child of this age that you should not swallow the solution, as well as the inability to learn the correct rinse technique. When treating small patients, it is especially important to ensure that the temperature of the water is not very high, since it is quite simple to burn the mucous membranes.
Gargling with sea salt for children over 2-3 years of age is also prescribed.
If a child swallows a small amount of solution, you should not worry - this will not bring much harm. If you teach your child to rinse from an early age, you can prevent the development of serious ENT diseases in adulthood.
You can use sea water to instill the nose in small patients from the first month of their life. As a rule, parents prefer to use pharmacy products based on sea water (Dolphin, Humer, Aqualor, Aqua Maris).
Gargling with sea salt for prevention
The described rinsing procedures are often used in the off-season and winter time for the prevention of those who are prone to frequent respiratory diseases. In fact, such a simple and inexpensive procedure will prevent systematic diseases.
For the purpose of prevention, it is enough to gargle once a day, and the concentration of the solution can be reduced. So, for its preparation you will need only half a teaspoon of soda and sea salt. For dilution, it will require 200 grams of pre-boiled water.
Statistics show that the systematic use of a prophylactic significantly reduces the incidence of tonsillitis, or completely avoids the development of an inflammatory process in the throat.
Gargling sea salt in pharmacies can be purchased without a prescription.
Using table salt instead of sea salt
Common salt, in comparison with sea salt, has a different composition, however, if there is no possibility of acquiring the latter, the use of simple table salt is allowed. Strengthen the disinfecting properties will allow the addition of a small amount of iodine to the prepared solution.
Do not forget that an overdose of iodine, unlike soda and salt, can provoke unpleasant effects.
It should also be noted that a solution prepared using iodine can cause excessive dryness, especially if it is used systematically. The drying effect is exerted by iodine. The development of such symptoms indicates the need to reduce the frequency of application of the solution. Otherwise, irritation of the mucous membranes in the oral cavity will intensify, causing even greater sore throat.
The temperature of the solution prepared on the basis of salt and iodine should not be higher than 40 degrees, this will minimize the irritating effect on the mucous membrane.
Useful Tips
It is important to remember that the high effectiveness of therapy depends not only on the amount of solution used or its composition. A solution of salt must necessarily fall on the foci of inflammation in the throat. This means that the rinses should be deep, but do not swallow the solution.
The effectiveness of rinsing the throat with sea salt for tonsillitis will increase if you pronounce the letter Y at the same time. Language takes a lower position, opens the solution deeper access.
When tilting the head back, the area of exposure to the solution will increase. It is also necessary to pay attention to the time factor. It is recommended to carry out the procedure in series, each of which takes 20 seconds. Its total duration is 5 minutes.
It is strictly forbidden to give up other methods of therapy with angina. The best option would be complex therapy, including medications recommended by your doctor, and rinses that can shorten the duration of therapy.
It is recommended to use salt for preparation of the solution, which is obtained from the water of the seas located in relatively ecologically safe areas. It is important to purchase sea salt not in cosmetic stores, but in drugstores. Only in this case, you can be sure that the salt does not have any harmful additives in its composition.
Reviews
There are a lot of reviews about this tool. People note that sea salt helps to quickly get rid of a sore throat, relieves sore throat. It is inexpensive, has no side effects. In some cases, the solution can be replaced with a product prepared independently from table salt and soda. Also, people in the reviews confirm that for a better result, a couple of drops of iodine can be added to the composition.