Common Cold: Symptoms, Causes & Cure

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Common Cold: Symptoms, Causes & Cure

The common cold is the most frequent infection in all age group. Children are most fragile to cold.

Definition

It is an acute illness characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose and sometime pharynx by a group of viruses lasting for few days.

Symptoms

Running from the nose, nasal obstruction, tiredness, sneezing, sore throat and malaise
Slight temperature, dryness of mouth, and cough may be present
Aches and pain all over the body may be seen
When there is painful red eyes from the beginning adenovirus infection may be suspected
Temperature and purulent discharge from the nose, headache and pain over the sinuses and ears due to infection

Causes

After infection virus subsequent bacterial infection by pneumococcus, streptococcus staphylococci may develop
Aggregation or overeating in public place

Incubation period

24 to 48 hours

Cure

According to symptoms with given medicine.

Aconite

Cough, croup; dry hoarse, suffocating loud croaking hard, from dry cold wind and drafts of air., burning thirst form large quantity for cold water.

Allium cepa

Spring coryza, after damp north-easterly winds coryza; profuse, watery and acrid, nasal discharge with profuse, bland lachrymation. Acrid, watery discharge dropping from tip of nose.

Arsenic album: breathing, spring out of bed at night, especially after twelve o’ clock, unable to lie down for fear of suffocation

Bryonia alba

Cough, dry spasmodic with gagging and vomiting with stitches in side of chest with headache as if head would fly to pieces.

Heaper sulph

After exposure to dry cold wind, deep rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus, cold air, cold drink, before midnight or toward morning.

Rhus tox: dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, with taste of blood, cold wet rainy weather at night.

Along with these remedies the most effective treatment is rest.

Vitamin’s heavy doses are usually given. Fresh fruit, soups vegetable are given and plenty of fresh air. Recurrent cold in adult and children do require constitutional homeopathic treatment from your professional homeopath.

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