When the nose is "not working" ...

If the nose is not breathing, my life becomes a hell. Headache, watery eyes, the temperature begins ... We can not sleep well, eat, talk to people. In a word, a cold is brewing that urgently needs to stop.

General difficulty of nasal breathing is simply called - swelling of the mucosa. In this case, it is often accompanied by a runny nose, strong and not very much. If you have a runny nose, then you start ARD, or SARS, that is a banal cold. Frequently encountered and easily without the swelling of mucous secretions from the nose. Edema caused by different factors, each of which requires its diagnosis and treatment.
The most common:

    * Allergic rhinitis (ie, caused by some allergens);
    * Viral or bacterial inflammation (infectious rhinitis) - the infamous cold;
    * Vasomotor rhinitis - may be caused by different factors;
    * Medical rhinitis - arises in the case of abuse of nose drops.
If you have a cold infection, you should be treated first and foremost it. And together with the general treatment of prescription drugs can be symptomatic treatment of nasal congestion. This can be done folk remedies such as herbal inhalation. Or potatoes, as did all our grandmothers: Boil potato peels in a saucepan, then cover yourself with a thick blanket and breathe over the pot. Try to make it a nose and closely monitored so as not to burn hot air inhalation.
In addition, you can rinse your nose with salty water. By the way, recently appeared in pharmacies are many varieties of sea water droplets. It you can safely wash his nose several times a day. Sea water is very useful for the nasal passages, she washes them under pressure, while at the same time, it leaches out of the nose bacteria.
In addition, you can use the drops with menthol, eucalyptus or camphor. They provide additional antiseptic, anti-and anti-inflammatory action. Ideally, of course, help vasoconstrictor drops, but they are also the most dangerous. They contain a substance expands blood vessels of nasal mucosa. After instillation of blood vessels rapidly taper, so we are able to breathe "in both nostrils." The most common means - based on the vasoconstrictive component of oxymetazoline (its presence in the drug you can look in the instruction to drop). These drops provide rapid relief of breathing and keep the effect up to 12 hours.
There are huge. But! Although the vasoconstrictor drugs (especially Naphazoline, galazolin etc.) quickly and help give the nose an opportunity normally "work" in no case be overused, or it may be a medical rhinitis.
Carefully read the instructions to medicines: there will probably be written that abuse their use in any case impossible. The fact that the frequent use of drops of blood vessels become less elastic, they begin to grow worse as more people begin to dig nose drops. After a very frequent use of the blood vessels begin to work very badly, you can not do without drops. Over time, the vascular walls become thin, can sometimes go the blood from his nose. In fact, this diagnosis is very often, so you should try to avoid it. As a result, people over the years enjoyed drops in the nose, buys them in bulk, as live and breathe without them is impossible. That is, the patient begins to drip into his nose with a cold, and continues to do very long time, when the cold is already long over.
The worst thing that treat similar rhinitis is very difficult. To do this, at least a month did not bury the nose and help yourself just rinsing the nose and inhalation. Of course, refuse to drop will be very hard: a bad dream, the eternal dry mouth while breathing with a stuffy nose and other "charms" will be provided. But when you pereborete this disease, life will seem much better.
By the way, if long-term use of droplets in a person violated the sense of smell after a while it ceases to feel distinctly smells.
After such "horror stories" I want to tell you how not to come to a similar situation. Need for a cold to fly only drops that keep the effect of approximately 12 hours (with prolonged action). And during the day to try alternate means of nasal lavage in the nose.
And now for the children. If your child suddenly became ill, be sure to follow the same rules. Do not bury often better to just before bedtime. And certainly choose only drops to children of certain age (usually written on the label), since such drops lower concentration of active ingredient, that is, they are less dangerous for children.