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There are many people in Korea who have the idea that if you are sick, you need to take medicine to get better. If you go to hospital because you are sick and the doctor does not prescribe you medicine, we can easily meet people who think that the doctor has neglected their duty. The same is true when you have a cold. Of course, it is easy to meet people who feel they will get better by taking a prescription for cold medicine.
There will be a placebo effect of the belief that cold medicine will at least cure those who think that taking cold medicine will cure a cold, and in addition, medicines that people commonly know as cold medicines have cold symptoms like a. runny nose, cough, headache, and fever It would not be unreasonable to think of cold medicine as the main contributor to curing a cold because it has the effect of relieving a cold.
According to the National Health Information Portal of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no one who has not caught a cold in their entire life, and it is presented as a disease that adults get 2-3 times a year on average and children 6-8 times a year. Although many people do not go to hospital because they usually recover in a week or less without receiving special treatment, according to data from the Health Review and Assessment Service, 19 million people each year receive treatment for colds before Corona 19.
Because anyone can catch a cold like this, it’s easy to think that everyone is familiar with the common cold, but do people really know about it and react well? Seeing that the number of people receiving cold treatment has almost halved to the level of 10 million in 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of room to prevent colds if people respond well, and there is a lot to prevent colds. no choice but to question whether they respond well.
If you react well to a cold, you will catch colds much less than now, and you will be able to recover more easily when you catch a cold, so you will not have to go to hospital to receive treatment on for a cold. It can also save a significant portion of medical costs totaling 2 trillion won per year, and the impact will be huge.
Let’s look at how we catch a cold and how we recover. Most of the pathogens that cause colds are various viruses, and among them, rhinovirus accounts for the majority. The cold virus is transmitted through droplets in the air when a person coughs, sneezes or talks, or enters the body through the mouth, eyes or nose through contact with person or share contaminated objects.
When a cold virus enters the body, cold symptoms appear after an incubation period of 1 to 3 days. During this immune response, the white blood cells work hard to get rid of the virus, and most of them recover naturally after 1 week to 10 days.
People tend to think that anyone catches a cold when a cold virus enters the body, but as the example of COVID-19 shows, not everyone gets sick even if they are exposed to the virus. Because the white blood cells in our body destroy the virus that enters the body, there are many people who do not catch a cold even if the virus enters the body, and even after getting sick, the white blood cells recover because the virus is difficult to eliminate.
In this way, it is the responsibility of the white blood cells to prevent a cold and cure it naturally. If you take cold medicine, how will it affect the natural healing process of a cold? Cold medicines do not kill the cold virus, but because they relieve the symptoms of a cold, on the one hand, they relieve the symptoms of the cold and reduce the pain, but on the other hand, because they interfere with get rid of the cold. virus by white blood cells, the cold will get better later
So, what’s the best way to get better naturally if you catch a cold? It is better to restore the immunity of the immune cells, so it is necessary to reduce the energy expenditure that is not urgent to help the immune response to focus on eliminating the cold virus. It is good to reduce non-urgent physical and mental activities and have a comfortable rest. It is better if the place is rich in oxygen, and you should drink plenty of water.
If you become ill or injured, it is good to fast like animals within the range that your physical strength allows according to the immune response that reduces your appetite, and there is a light meal that focusing on easily digestible fruit is also good. It’s easy to think we should eat better when we’re sick, but our body has enough energy to use up even if we only drink water for about a month, so there’s no need to stock up on ramen while subduing the communists.
The cold virus is transmitted through contact with small droplets in the air, patient secretions, or a virus-contaminated vector Efforts to prevent infection are important.
In the long term, it is important to maintain high immunity in case of exposure to a cold virus or catch a cold even in the long term efforts to block infection, so maintain high immunity through a life-changing lifestyle (see Story Life 68 ) By doing so, you can protect your health not only from colds but also from all immune diseases.
It is better not to take cold medicine if possible, and if the symptoms are severe and difficult to bear, it is better to reduce it to a minimum. After all, the work of the white blood cells is to get rid of the cold, so we should support the white blood cells in the work, and it is not wise to hire many supervisors to interfere with the work of the white blood cells.
Jaeho Kim, independent researcher
