Mustard to children and adults. Is it possible for pregnant women to be plasters and children up to a year? How to properly put mustard with cough, bronchitis, tracheitis, with osteochondrosis?

Mustard is a well-known and widely used auxiliary treatment of diseases of the respiratory, musculoskeletal and other human body systems.

Especially often they are used to treat colds in children and adults. Everyone knows that from coughing you can put a mustard. But how to do this, alas, few.

Mustard instructions, testimony

Mustard can be bought or done yourself.
In the pharmacy version, sizua and or black erased in powder, dry and low -fat mustard are used. It may look like this:

• A piece of thick paper, on one side covered with mustard. Usually, the size of such a leaf is 12.5 cm by 8 cm.

Mustard - sheets.

• Filter package filled with mustard. Each of the packages is divided into 4 cells so that when getting wet, the powder does not knock into a lump, and the zone of exposure does not decrease

Despite the fact that mustard is not the latest medicine with a complex formula, it acts very effectively in various directions:

• relieves inflammation
• improves blood circulation
• accelerates metabolism in the cells and tissues of the zone of exposure and the body as a whole
• removes a spasm
• anesthetizes
• The mechanism of work mustard is simple:
• dry mustard contains essential oils
• in contact with warm water, they release
• hyperemia of the zone of exposure, the vessels there expand, the blood flow is accelerated, the metabolism is also accelerated
• after the blanket of mustard, essential oils begin to affect skin receptors
• as a result of the excitation of the sympathetic department of the nervous system, the production of adrenaline and norepinephrine hormones is developed, as a result of which metabolic processes in the body are also accelerated

Mustard is placed in diseases of the ENT organs and organs of the bronchodo-legal system:

• rinite
• pharyngitis and laryngitis
• laryngotracheite
• trachete
• bronchitis
• bronchopneumonia
• pneumonia
• pleurisy
• bronchial asthma (for stopping seizures)

They are also effective in some diseases of the musculoskeletal system:

• osteochondrosis
• radiculitis
• myosite
• soft tissue bruises

As an antispasmodic, analgesic, vasodilating, distracting drugs, mustard plasters are used for diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems:

• neuralgia
• headache
• hypertension
• angina pectoris

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At what age is mustard to put children? Is it possible for children to be up to a year?

Many pediatricians, especially the Soviet school, recommend treating with mustard coughing, colds, acute respiratory viral infections and bronchitis in children. Indeed, earlier these funds were in a home medicine cabinet for every mother. Today, the views on what age to put mustard children have changed a lot.

Important: despite the fact that the mustard dry seems to be very simple, it is aggressive. Firstly, the irritating effect of the essential oils contained in it is strong.

Secondly, these essential oils are potential allergens. It is not known how the mustard will behave on the tender skin of the child, especially if it is very small

From pediatricians with modern views you can hear the following:

1. Put mustard plasters to a child for up to a year and up to 2 years
2. If the baby is from 2 to 5 years, packages with mustard powder are put only through a double layer of gauze and for only a few minutes
3. It can be fully treated with mustard or throat cough with plasters only in children who have reached the age of six

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How many days are plasters put? How many times a day can must be plastered?

The duration of the course of treatment with mustard is determined individually and depends on:

• the disease that the patient suffers
• its age
• severity of the condition
• the effectiveness of treatment and recovery speed

Usually, mustard plasters put no more than 4-5 days in a row.

Important: this procedure can be alternated with other distracting or warming, for example, compresses. Then the full course will last up to 10 days.

Many people ask if recovery will accelerate if you put mustard more than once a day, but twice. Doctors protest against such experiments on themselves, they are fraught with skin burns and allergies.

Important: mustard plasters are placed once a day, no more! It is better to carry out the procedure in the evening, before bedtime.

How much to keep mustard adults and children?

It is also important to correctly withstand the procedure. And it is:

• children from 2 to 6 years old hold a mustard through gauze for 2-3 minutes
• children from 6 years old keep a mustard from 5 to 10 minutes (if for the first time - 2 minutes)
• adults keep a mustard for up to 15 minutes (if for the first time - 5 minutes)

Important: if a strong burning sensation occurs during the procedure so as not to interrupt it, it is recommended to lay gauze or compressive paper between the skin and mustard.

Mustard contraindications. Is it possible to be plasters at temperature?

Not everyone can be treated with mustard. There are a number of contraindications for bags with mustard powder. It:

• the hypersensitivity of the skin
• allergy
• atopic dermatitis
• open wounds on the skin
• various skin diseases (eczema, psoriasis, neurodermatitis, others)
• oncological diseases
• tuberculosis
• some neurological diseases (for example, epilepsy)
• varicose veins (you can not put mustard on caviar)

Also, you can not put mustard plasters in the acute period of the disease, when a person has increased body temperature.

Important: there is an opinion that if the patient’s temperature is subfebrile (up to 38 s), you can put mustard plasters. This issue must be discussed individually in the attending physician.

Mustard during pregnancy

During pregnancy, immunity in women is often reduced, so future mothers fall at the risk group of ARVI, other diseases. And since most drugs are impossible, they are often treated with auxiliary and folk ways.

But they categorically cannot be treated with cough, runny nose or headache with bitterchers.

Important: mustard has abortive properties. Unfortunately, earlier women often used packets with mustard powder as a means of interruption of unwanted pregnancy. Some continue to do this now

During the procedure, a significant increase in the tone of the uterus is possible, accompanied by fetal hypoxia. In the early stages, there is a high probability of miscarriage, in later - premature birth.

Application of mustard plasters step by step

In order to carry out the procedure, you will need:

• actually bags with mustard powder
• tazik with water from 37 s to 40 s
• bandage, gauze or compressive paper
• napkin x/b or terry towel
• a blanket or blanket

They put plasters like this:

• a sheet of paper or a bag with mustard is held horizontally
• it is lowered into a basin with water for 10 -15 seconds, removed and shaken
• they are applied to the necessary zone of exposure (if necessary, make a gasket between the package and the skin)
• cover the mustard with natural cloth
• wrap the patient

Important: After the procedure, the patient is recommended for rest and bed rest

How to put mustard plasters on the chest with coughing and bronchitis

With inflammation of the bronchi, mustard plasters are placed for:

• reinforcement of blood circulation in the organ
• removal of bronchospasm
• sputum thinning
• coughing

Packets with mustard are superimposed on the projections of the bronchi: the chest and back. Mustardly put on one side (the one where wheezing is listened to) or on both sides (if the bronchi wheeze both on the right and on the left).

Important: if bronchitis is accompanied by a runny nose, it makes sense to put bags with mustard powder not only on the chest and back, but also on the calf muscles

Mustard on the neck with tracheitis

Laryngitis and tracheitis (inflammation of the larynx with vocal cords or trams) often accompany each other.

They are unpleasant not only with their symptoms, but also by the fact that they can very quickly develop into bronchitis or pneumonia.
Many people think that with these diseases it is necessary to put plasters on the neck. This is not true!

Important: with laryngitis, the mucous membrane of the larynx is already swollen, hyperemic and narrowed. Mustard on the neck can provoke laryngospasm

With laryngitis and tracheal, the essence of the procedure is to pull the blood from inflamed organs. Therefore, the applique of mustard are carried out on the area below the collarbone or calf muscles.

Mustard on the heart

With angina pectoris and any pain in the heart, it is forbidden to engage in self -medication. Only a cardiologist should prescribe medications, procedures (including mustard plasters).

As prescribed by the doctor, they are placed on the region of the heart.

Mustard on the feet, on the heels

On the legs (calf muscles) or heels, mustard plasters put:

• with a beginning leak
• with rhinitis
• from the cough of the throat and breast
• with hypertension

Mustard in socks

Many consider the procedure for applicating mustard on the heels of ineffective, since in this place the skin is rough, in a short procedure the beneficial properties of mustard do not have time to work.
Therefore, it is much more effectively pouring mustard into socks.
The procedure for children from 6 years old and adults are carried out in this way:

• no necessarily natural (cotton) socks fall asleep mustard powder (adults-1-2 tablespoons, children-1-2 teaspoon)
• wearing socks are put on clean and dry legs
• another warm woolen socks put on top
• the duration of the procedure is 6-8 hours, so it is better to do it at night

Important: Children from 2 to 6 years old can fall asleep mustard powder between two thin socks, and put on top of the third, wool. The duration of the procedure in babies is 2 hours

Mustard with osteochondrosis

With osteochondrosis, mustard plasters are placed on the skin in the area of \u200b\u200bthe spine that is drawn into the pathological process.

You can use the standard mustard application scheme or a special improving procedure efficiency precisely with osteochondrosis.

• prepare a weak solution of furatsilin
• add 1 teaspoon of honey to it
• dip the mustard in the resulting solution

Burn from mustard what to do?

It often happens that mustard leave burns on the skin. Especially if they are set incorrectly, or exceeded the procedure.

IMPORTANT: In no case can you treat the burned skin with alcohol!

It is necessary to act as follows:

• rinse the burnt area of \u200b\u200bthe skin with clean water and gently get wet with a sterile bandage to remove moisture
• apply an antiseptic (for example, furatsiline ointment)
• apply a bandage to avoid infection of the wounded place

Re -process the burn and change the bandage twice a day.

Important: mustard burns are often accompanied by allergies. It is better for the patient to immediately take an antihistamine

Whether mustard helps: reviews

The attitude towards mustard with doctors and ordinary people today is twofold. Some consider this method of treating colds and other diseases very effective, while others call it a “stone century”.

Only one thing is known: mustard plasters can alleviate the patient's condition, temporarily relieve pain and discomfort. But they do not treat the disease itself, so you can put them only with parallel treatment with traditional means.

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