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 can be found in every kitchen. After all, with the help of soda, you can clean rust, grease, and also 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 one century. Let's take a closer look at its properties.
When can I take?
In what cases will milk with soda be effective? Such an extraordinary drink perfectly eliminates many symptoms of ailments, and also fights certain ailments. Among them:
- Heartburn. In this case, milk with soda neutralizes the increased acidity. Wednesday.
- Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, the product is used for cleansing enemas.
- Apply milk with soda from the throat, or rather from pain of various origins. After all, this composition has an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect.
- For a wet cough, the remedy dilutes phlegm.
- Weak solution can be used to treat conjunctivitis.
- Suitable for the treatment of SARS, influenza, colds.
- Whiten and clean tooth enamel.
- Used for heart rhythm disorders, or rather to reduce its frequency.
- Effective in arterial hypertension, as it removes excess fluid from the body.
When is it recommended?
As the reviews show, 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.
- Addiction therapy: alcoholism and smoking.
- Fight against drug addiction and substance abuse. Many argue that such a tool allows you to eliminate the withdrawal syndrome - withdrawal.
- Used to remove heavy metal compounds from the body - lead, thallium, cadmium.
- For prophylactic purposes in case of acute radiation sickness. This composition allows the removal of radioactive isotopes.
- Helps in the removal of s alts, stones from the gallbladder and kidneys from the 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 about such a tool are contradictory) is prohibited. This combination of products is not always beneficial. With illiterate and inept use, alternative medicine can do harm.
Do not forget that sodium bicarbonate (soda) changes the acidity of the stomach. With frequent use of hot milk with soda, an acid-base imbalance may occur. As a result, the patient's condition may worsen.
With caution should use such drugs for those who are prone to allergies. After all, honey is often added to milk with soda used for coughing. Such drugs can be given to children only after consulting a pediatrician. In addition to allergies, there are other contraindications. Highlights:
- lactation and pregnancy;
- children up to 3 years old, newborns;
- individual intolerance to any component;
- severe kidney or liver damage;
- lactase deficiency.
Compositions for children
Should I give milk and soda to children? This composition helps to restore sleep, restore strength. With pain in the throat and chest after using such a remedy, it becomes possible to breathe. Before giving milk to a child with cough soda combined with butter, you should consult a doctor about whether to boil the drink.
With increasedbody temperature (from 37, 5 ˚С) do not take a hot remedy. The drink must be warm. In addition, hot milk can burn the mucous membranes. Therefore, this remedy is suitable for the treatment of diseases in adults. Children are given this composition warm.
How to cook?
So, how to make milk with soda for a baby? For this you need:
- Pour a glass of pasteurized or natural milk into a container, put on the stove and boil.
- Take the milk off the heat and add a teaspoon of baking soda to it.
- Stir ingredients thoroughly and cool. The temperature of the drink should be no more than 25 ˚С.
- The child should take the drug twice a day, preferably before going to bed. You should drink such a drink in small sips.
This remedy allows you to get rid of sore throat and sore throat, as well as cough. At the same time, the process of mucus discharge is greatly facilitated.
Anti-inflammatory
On the basis of milk, you can prepare a remedy that has an anti-inflammatory effect. Its recipe is simple:
- bee honey - 1 tsp;
- baking soda - ½ tsp;
- milk - 200 ml.
When preparing the product, it is necessary to strictly observe the proportions. After all, a large amount of soda can aggravate the work of the digestive organs, and honey can provoke an allergic reaction. You can take such a drug only if there are no contraindications.
Drug with enveloping action
To prepare this cough medicine, you will need the following ingredients:
- milk, preferably hot, - 200 ml;
- honey - 1 tsp;
- butter - 1 tsp;
- chicken egg (in certain cases, you can also use quail eggs, pre-beaten) - 1 pc.;
- baking soda - ½ tsp.
All ingredients are recommended to be combined and thoroughly mixed until some components are completely dissolved. The alternative medicine should be taken at 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, relieve inflammation in tracheitis and laryngitis.
Milk-based products
You can prepare an effective medicine not only with soda. When coughing, a milk-based remedy 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, take it with caution.
To make milk with butter, prepare:
- 5 g of butter - it must be exclusively natural (from cream);
- 1 cup of milk, heated to25-28 ˚S.
Components must be combined in a cup and mixed. The butter should completely dissolve in the 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 relief of the state of great. Take milk with butter three times a day. The effectiveness of this composition is confirmed by numerous reviews.
Finally
Milk combined with baking soda helps to cope with such an unpleasant symptom of respiratory ailments as a cough. However, such a drug affects the digestive tract too aggressively. Therefore, experts recommend using those products that contain butter. This product, combined with milk, honey and soda, has an antitussive effect.
As the reviews show, such drugs are often used in inflammatory processes, as well as to relieve irritation. However, if there is intolerance to honey or a tendency to allergic manifestations, then such a component should be discarded. But even without this product, the drug can help get rid of a 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, you should consult with specialists to eliminate the risk of aggravating the patient's condition.
