Normally, an adult shouldn't have a cold more than twice a year during a seasonal SARS epidemic. If a cough, runny nose, sore throat, rashes on the lips, fever and other symptoms of a cold occur six times a year, then such an adult is considered often ill. What are the causes of frequent colds in adults? This is what we will try to find out.
Not all people have good immunity. Residents of cities most often suffer from influenza diseases. According to statistics, the city dweller, on average, has a cold up to four times a year. Almost a month later in the autumn-winter period, and this is due to several reasons.
Why do adults get very frequent colds? First of all, this is due to the large crowds of people: transport, shops, especially pharmacies, where the premises are not ventilated, and people with ARVI stand in line for medicines along with those who are still he althy. A person with a weakened immune system - and most of them in cities - is constantly at risk, so he often gets colds and is forced to take medicines.
What is immunity
Immunity is a biological barrier that prevents a wide variety of foreign harmful agents that exist in the environment from entering the body.
It could be:
- Viruses.
- Bacteria.
- Parasite.
- Harmful substances.
- Foreign biological tissues, such as donor tissues.
- Cells of the body itself, pathologically changed, for example, cancerous.
When a foreign agent enters the body (with breathing, food, contact with the skin, mucous membranes, blood, etc.), the immune system responds by producing special cells. They kill viruses, bacteria, parasites. These cells are called phagocytes, and the immune process itself is called phagocytosis.
There are other cells, blood proteins, immunoglobulins that neutralize various chemically active molecules.
When, nevertheless, a foreign agent gets inside any cell of the body, in response, the human body begins to resist, producing a specific cellular protein, interferon, in order to end the threat. At this point, the person's temperature rises. This is an additional protection, because many viruses and bacteria are not able to withstand even a slight increase in the temperature of the environment in which they enter.
The body also has an external protective barrier, the so-called nonspecific immunity. This is our primary defense - beneficial bacteria on the skin, mucous membranes and in the intestines, which kill and prevent disease-causing organisms from multiplying. Specific substances, enzymes - as if"chemical weapons" that guard human he alth.
However, these defenses of the body today do not “work” well enough for many people, and there are reasons for this. Frequent colds on the lips in adults, colds and other diseases are all due to weakened immunity.
Why the body weakens its protective functions
Immunity can be reduced due to many factors, such as unfavorable environmental conditions, unhe althy lifestyle, congenital or acquired chronic diseases, unhe althy diet, bad habits - alcohol and smoking, physical inactivity, stress.
Unfavorable ecological situation
Car exhaust gases contain up to 200 substances that are harmful or even deadly to human he alth. Today, large cities suffer from an overabundance of road transport. Often, not all cars have new, high-quality engines installed. Many drivers do not even think about catalysts and neutralizers for automobile emissions. The quality of fuel at conventional gas stations leaves much to be desired.
If you add industrial emissions here, the city air turns into a "cocktail", which simply becomes difficult to breathe.
Polluted air irritates the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, so to speak, "preparing the ground" for pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Since the first protective barrier of the human body, nonspecific immunity, is largely reduced.
Thereforediseases such as rhinitis, rashes on the lips, cough are often manifested, which are not accompanied by fever, but can last for months.
An equally serious environmental factor is electromagnetic pollution. Electronics - computers, smartphones, TV monitors, microwave ovens - that constantly surrounds us, and without which a modern person can no longer imagine life, negatively affects his body. Naturally, immunity decreases.
Wrong lifestyle
To the unfavorable environmental situation that prevails in cities, you need to add the wrong lifestyle - bad habits.
For example, smoking exacerbates the situation in many ways, because tobacco smoke contains more than 4 thousand harmful substances, and not just nicotine. These are deadly poisons, for example, arsenic, hydrogen cyanide, polonium-210. All these chemical reagents penetrate the human body, poison it for years, "distracting" the body's immune forces to fight these substances in the first place. The immune response to the invasion of external foreign agents is weak. This can cause frequent coughing in an adult without signs of a cold.
Inactivity
Long sitting at the computer in the workplace and at home affects not only posture and visual impairment. The immune system suffers the most. After all, the human body is designed for constant movement. When the muscles are in constant relaxation, they simply begin to atrophy. There is stagnation of blood, lymph, organscease to work well, and the heart experiences, on the contrary, a stronger load. The respiratory organs are especially affected. The volume of the lungs is reduced, the bronchi become "flabby". Therefore, slight hypothermia can cause disease. And if we add here the unfavorable ecological environment and smoking, then the result is obvious.
Unhe althy diet
A city dweller is always in a hurry somewhere, so he simply has no time to eat properly, fully. Cheap and unhe althy products from the fast food industry are used. And this is often fried food, which is usually washed down with sweet drinks, jammed with chocolate bars, etc.
These fatty, refined foods harm the body. They do not contain essential vitamins and minerals. The balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is disturbed. Such products are poorly absorbed by the body. He spends too much energy to digest them and deal with the consequences of such nutrition. Accordingly, people who consume such food, especially in large quantities, suffer from chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
In addition, such malnutrition with low-quality products leads to infection with parasites, Giardia.
All this weakens the body so that the immune defenses simply can not cope.
Stress, fatigue
It's no secret that life is not easy now, constant stress accompanies modern man everywhere. It can also cause frequent colds in adults. The inability to relaxcalm down, chronic lack of sleep, fatigue, exhaustion - the body's forces are spent excessively.
Sometimes a person just needs to get enough sleep, to have a good rest, so as not to injure his he alth and boost immunity.
Research by scientists has shown that a positive-minded person is less likely to get colds.
How to strengthen immunity and stop getting sick with a cold?
In a situation where a person often suffers from colds, an integrated approach is needed. Powerful immunity consists of many components, so it is necessary not only to temporarily use immunomodulators, but to seriously change your lifestyle.
Daily routine
The causes of frequent colds in adults lie in the wrong daily routine. It is necessary to develop a certain regimen in order to have a good rest, to eat on time. When a person lives "according to the schedule", in a certain rhythm, it is easier for him to endure stress. Moreover, he eliminates many stressful situations, he is not late for anything, he is not in a hurry, he is not overloaded with work. Such a lifestyle creates favorable positive thinking.
Proper nutrition
The causes of frequent colds in adults also lie in junk food. A he althy diet involves the presence in the diet of a balanced combination of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Food should be rich in minerals and vitamins of different groups - A, B, C, D, E, PP.
Must consumenatural products, exclude semi-finished products from the diet and do not buy fast food. If you buy products in a supermarket, you need to carefully read what is written on the packaging, whether there are artificial components - preservatives, dyes, flavor enhancers, emulsifiers. Do not eat this.
Only under such conditions, the immune system works fully, which means that your body will cope well with colds.
Vitamin A is present in vegetables and fruits of bright yellow, orange, red colors - carrots, pumpkins, apricots, tomatoes, bell peppers. This vitamin is also rich in animal products - liver, chicken eggs, butter.
B vitamins are found in nuts, seeds, bran and wholemeal flour, eggs, liver, meat, dairy products.
Vitamin C can be obtained from a decoction of rose hips, cranberries, sauerkraut, citrus fruits.
Vitamin E is found in abundance in unrefined vegetable oil, wheat germ and oats.
Tempering and gymnastics
If adults have frequent colds, what should I do? Need to do hardening and gymnastics.
Hardening procedures are best to start with special training. First, in the morning, pour lukewarm water on the feet and rub them with a terry towel. Then, after a few weeks, move on to dousing the shins and feet, and so gradually move up. In the end - start pouring yourself entirely with cool water at room temperature.
The gymnastic complex should be selected according to age andphysical data. Hatha yoga or various Chinese gymnastics complexes with smooth movements and gradually increasing load are especially suitable for a weakened body.
For those who often suffer from colds, breathing exercises are very important, which help to train the lungs and bronchi. For example, Strelnikova's gymnastic complex or yoga pranayama.
A daily jog, regular swimming, ice skating, outdoor skiing and cycling will benefit.
Once a week you need to go out of town to breathe clean air, clear your lungs.
Immunomodulators
Every three months you should take immunomodulators made from plant materials. These are various preparations from aloe, ginseng (it is better not to use for hypertensive patients), echinacea, mummy.
You can resort to traditional medicine, prepare teas, infusions of he althy herbs, make delicious and rich vitamin mixtures from honey with nuts, lemon, cranberries, dried fruits.
Eat onions and garlic.
Treatment of common colds in adults with medicines should be carried out exclusively under the supervision of a doctor. Only he will be able to establish a diagnosis and prescribe exactly the drugs that are needed.
Cough prescription
You will need one large onion, which needs to be finely chopped. Then, with a wooden spoon or pestle, crush the chopped onion a little so that the juice comes out. Pour the resultinggruel with honey and leave for a day. Consume 1 teaspoon 3-5 times daily between meals.
Treatment of common colds on the lips in adults
In order for rashes on the lips to go faster, you need to prepare a decoction of chamomile, mint or celandine.
A tablespoon of dry grass is poured with a glass of boiling water, insisted for an hour in a sealed container. Then, a cotton swab gently dipped in the infusion is applied every 2 hours.
Chamomile tea is also good to use inside.
