What reason is flat cough PAD TALL upper body alleviates

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In life, if you are too tired, it is easy to lead to cough. If you have a serious disease, you need to carry out surgical treatment. You need to treat the disease correctly. When the cold air strikes one by one, many people catch a cold. Although the cold is a minor disease, cough and nasal congestion are very painful, especially at night. Lie flat cough pad high upper body to reduce what is the reason to tell you.

What reason is flat cough PAD TALL upper body alleviates

First: cough is a defensive reflex of the human body. There are many cilia on the surface of the respiratory tract mucosa, which constantly swing to the oropharynx to clean up the dust, microorganisms and foreign bodies mixed into the respiratory tract. When you catch a cold, the accumulation of exudates, bacteria, viruses and damaged white blood cells in the respiratory tract will stimulate the mucous membrane and clean up the "garbage" by coughing. When lying flat at night, the secretion in the respiratory tract is easy to accumulate, which will aggravate the cough. Therefore, the pillow pad a little higher to ensure that the airway smooth, so as to reduce the night cough.

Second: the pillow can not only relieve the night cough caused by cold, but also help the patients with the other two kinds of diseases. One is the heart function is not good people, head higher, can reduce the heart load, avoid reflex cough. The other is gastroesophageal reflux, high pillow position can avoid gastric acid material into the respiratory tract, produce irritating cough.

Third: "it should be noted that it is better not to raise the head only." Zhou Rongbin stressed. Head high, and neck and back to form an angle, this position for a long time, very injury to the cervical spine. It's better to cushion the head, neck and back from high to low and gradually form a slope from head to back. There is a way to use for reference: use two pillows, one horizontally, the other vertically, in the shape of "t" (as shown in the figure).

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For other symptoms of cold, you can try the method recommended by Mayo Clinic in the United States: when the nose is blocked, fumigate the nose with steam emitted by hot water, which is as effective as the "atomization" treatment commonly used in hospitals to ensure smooth breathing; when you have a headache, take a deep breath; when you have a sore throat, drink some warm lemon honey water. In addition, after a cold must drink more water, help to recover.