Milk is a unique product that is present in the diet of many people. After all, it contains not only phosphorus and calcium, but also many trace elements and vitamins. It is often used to treat colds. Most often, soda is added to milk. This product is found in every kitchen. After all, with the help of soda, you can clean rust, grease, as well as bake delicious pancakes. In addition, such a product is often used to eliminate heartburn.
As practice shows, milk with soda can eliminate the symptoms of many diseases: cough, pain in the stomach, etc. This is an effective alternative medicine that has been popular for more than a century. Let's look at its properties in more detail.
When can I take?
In what cases will milk with soda be effective? Such an unusual drink perfectly eliminates many symptoms of ailments, and also fights against certain ailments. Among them:
- Heartburn. In this case, milk with soda neutralizes the increased acidity of the medium.
- Gastrointestinal diseases. In this case, the tool is used for cleansing enemas.
- Apply milk with soda from the throat, or rather from pain of various origins. After all, such a composition has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
- With a wet cough, the product dilutes sputum.
- A weak solution can be used to treat conjunctivitis.
- Suitable for the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections, flu, colds.
- Whitens and cleans tooth enamel.
- It is used for heart rhythm disturbances, and more precisely to reduce its frequency.
- Effective for arterial hypertension, as it well removes excess fluid from the body.
In what cases is recommended?
According to reviews, the effectiveness of such a tool has not been proven. However, some doctors recommend taking milk with soda in the following cases:
- Help in the treatment and prevention of cancer.
- Therapy of addiction: alcoholism and smoking.
- The fight against drug addiction and substance abuse. Many argue that such a tool can eliminate withdrawal symptoms - withdrawal.
- It is used to remove heavy metals - lead, thallium, cadmium - from the body.
- For preventive purposes in acute radiation sickness. This composition allows you to remove radioactive isotopes.
- It helps in removing salts, stones from the gallbladder and kidneys from joints.
- Therapy of helminthic invasions. Indeed, in an alkaline environment, such parasites die.
- Perfectly eliminates itching after an insect bite.
Contraindications
In some cases, the use of soda with milk (reviews of such a tool are contradictory) is prohibited. This combination of products is not always beneficial. With an illiterate and inept application, a alternative medicine can harm.
Do not forget that sodium bicarbonate (soda) changes the acidity of the stomach. With the frequent use of hot milk with soda, a violation of the acid-base balance may occur. As a result, the patient's condition may worsen.
With caution, it is worth using such drugs for those who are prone to allergies. After all, honey and soda are often added to honey used for coughing. Such drugs can be given to children only after consulting a pediatrician. In addition to allergies, there are other contraindications. It is worth highlighting:
- lactation and pregnancy;
- children under 3 years old, newborns;
- individual intolerance to any component;
- severe damage to the kidneys or liver;
- lactase deficiency.
Compositions for children
Should I give milk with soda to children? Such a composition helps to restore sleep, restore strength. With sore throat and chest after using such a remedy, there is an opportunity to breathe. Before giving the child milk with cough soda in combination with oil, you should consult your doctor whether it is worth boiling the drink.
At elevated body temperature (from 37.5 ° C), a hot remedy should not be taken. The drink should be warm. In addition, hot milk can burn the mucous membrane. Therefore, such a tool is suitable for the treatment of diseases in adults. Such a composition is given to children warm.
How to cook?
So, how to make milk with soda for a child? To do this, you must:
- Pour a glass of pasteurized or natural milk into a container, put on a stove and boil.
- Remove milk from the heat and introduce a teaspoon of soda into it.
- Stir components thoroughly and cool. The temperature of the drink should be no more than 25 ° C.
- The child should take the medicine twice a day, preferably before going to bed. To drink such a drink should be in small sips.
This tool allows you to get rid of perspiration and sore throat, as well as cough. At the same time, the process of discharge of mucus is greatly facilitated.
Anti-inflammatory
Based on milk, you can prepare an agent that has an anti-inflammatory effect. The recipe is simple:
- bee honey - 1 tsp;
- baking soda - ½ tsp;
- milk - 200 ml.
When preparing the product, the proportions must be strictly observed. Indeed, a large amount of soda can aggravate the functioning of the digestive system, and honey can provoke an allergic reaction. You can take such a drug only on the condition that there are no contraindications.
Enveloping drug
To prepare such a cough medicine, the following components will be required:
- milk, preferably hot, - 200 ml;
- honey - 1 tsp;
- butter - 1 tsp;
- chicken egg (in certain cases quail eggs, previously beaten, can be used) - 1 pc.;
- baking soda - ½ tsp.
All ingredients are recommended to combine and mix thoroughly until all components are completely dissolved. Alternative medicine should be taken before bedtime. The course of such therapy lasts 5 days.
It is worth noting that a set of such products allows you to soften the process of sputum discharge in bronchitis or colds, to relieve inflammation in tracheitis and laryngitis.
Milk Based Products
An effective medicine can be prepared not only with soda. When coughing, a milk-based product with butter is very popular. Its effectiveness and safety has been proven, such a drink is allowed to be used to eliminate a wet cough not only in children, but also in pregnant women. Such therapy does not harm either the expectant mother or her child. But a product based on milk with honey can cause an allergic reaction. Therefore, it should be taken with caution.
To make milk with butter, prepare:
- 5 g of oil - it should be exclusively natural (from cream);
- 1 cup of milk heated to a temperature of 25-28 ˚.
The components must be combined in a cup and mixed. The butter should completely dissolve in warm milk. It is recommended to take such a remedy in small sips, without waiting for it to cool completely. The course lasts until the condition is large. Take milk with butter should be three times a day. The effectiveness of this composition is confirmed by numerous reviews.
In conclusion
Milk in combination with baking soda helps to cope with such an unpleasant symptom of respiratory ailments like coughing. However, such a drug affects the digestive tract too aggressively. Therefore, experts recommend using those products that contain butter. This product in combination with milk, honey and soda has an antitussive effect.
According to reviews, such drugs are often used in inflammatory processes, as well as to relieve irritation. However, if there is honey intolerance or a tendency to allergy manifestations, then this component should be discarded. But even without this product, the drug can help get rid of cough, making breathing easier and simplifying the process of removing sputum from the respiratory tract.
However, do not self-medicate. Before using any alternative medicine, it is worth consulting with specialists in order to eliminate the risk of aggravation of the patient's condition.