VIVAnews - Many methods are used to prevent the flu virus. Most people eat soup as orange juice or food warm when cold symptoms begin to attack. But, there are other ways to overcome flu: gargling with salt water. When the flu strikes, throat usually itch and pain. Gargling with salt water can reduce the symptoms. Nasal or respiratory congestion that often arise can be overcome with salt water gargle.
"The solution of salt was found to draw excess fluid in the inflamed tissue in the throat, so it makes the pain less," said Dr. Philip T Hagen, of the 'Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies', as quoted from the New York Times.
Dr. Hagen also said, gargling salt water to loosen the mucus is thick and can remove irritants like allergens, bacteria and fungi from the throat.
The study, published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005, this research involved nearly 400 participants. Researchers record the condition of their health for 60 days in the winter, since healthy.
A number of participants who had requested cold rinse three times a day with salt water. Groups who regularly gargling salt water proved to decrease the level of the upper respiratory tract infections by 40 percent.
According to the study, gargling salt water beneficial lowering of bronchial symptoms. This reinforces other studies that found that gargling salt water help to overcome sore throat, and blockage.
For best results, according to a team of Mayo Clinic, dissolve half a teaspoon of salt in a glass full of warm water. Then, gargle with a solution for a few seconds. (Pet)