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A HEADACHE

Headache is a very common condition in people. Generally, the pain is temporary

and occurs due to stress, emotional stress, high blood pressure, infections, colds,

hangovers and nutritional deficiency to name a few.

TREATMENT

Drink water to avoid dehydration, especially if you have vomited.

Rest in a quiet, dark room.

Place a cool cloth on your head.

Use any relaxation technique you have learned.

A COLD

The common cold usually causes a runny nose, nasal congestion, and sneezing.

Also, you may have a sore throat, cough, headache or other symptoms.

TREATMENT

Rest and drink plenty of fluids.

A COUGH

Coughing is a normal reaction of the body. The stimulus cough is caused by the

presence of mucus or a foreign body in the airway. In addition, the cough may be a

symptom of certain diseases such as a cold, asthma or bronchitis.

TREATMENT

"Syrup" honey cough.

A hot bath.

Tea black pepper and honey.

Thyme tea.

Take plenty of fluids.

Cough drops.

Suck a lemon.

Commercial tea blends. Ginger.

Licorice.

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INSOMNIA

Insomnia is a condition that is the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep. In patients

who suffer, duration and quality of sleep is low and interferes with daily life. This

disorder is manifested by a difficulty in falling asleep, to keep or advance through a

final awakening.

TREATMENT

Do not go to bed until sleepy.

Do not watch TV, read or eat in bed.

Minimum separation of one hour between the last meal and bedtime.

Avoid heavy meals.

Removing alcohol since, despite inducing sleep, produces early awakenings

and reduced total sleep time.

Reduce caffeine and snuff. Practicing regular exercise, but not before bedtime.

Improve environmental conditions, reduce noise and avoid extreme

temperatures.

Sleep restriction: shorten the bed to the actual sleep time. Later it goes

ahead of bedtime for 15 to 30 minutes.

Relaxation therapies.

Establish a routine time to set the biological clock.

THE FLU

The flu is a respiratory disease caused by influenza virus. If anything characterizes

this organism is its ability to spread. The virus passes easily from person to person

through droplets of saliva that are expelled by speaking, sneezing or coughing.

Contact with contaminated hands or objects also are a source of infection.

TREATMENT

The best treatment is to "pass on the flu", which means that today has no cure.

Still, there is some antiviral drugs (no antibiotics) and natural remedies that can

reduce the severity of episodes. Medical recommendations are very familiar: stay

in bed and rest, drink plenty of fluids (juices and broths) and use antipyretics,

analgesics and antipyretics to reduce symptoms, mainly from the time symptoms

begin until 24 or 49 hours after that the body temperature returns to normal.

Antibiotics do not treat flu symptoms. The action of these drugs is only directed

towards bacteria, and flu is caused by a viral agent. Only if it evolves into

complications such as pneumonia or bronchitis makes sense fend antibiotic

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treatment. But in addition to antiviral drugs, the patient has the possibility of using

natural therapies to reduce the aggressiveness of symptoms.

SINDY GALVIS PADILLA