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Don't Get Sick in January
Home Doctor: Desease Prevention During Winter Season
This book, How Not to Get Sick during Winter Season: 29 Homemade Remedies That are Approved by Doctors is a great book to read if you want to lay off chemical based medicines and get through winter without chest congestion, joint pains and other winter related ailments. It shows you the ailments that are prevalent in the winter season, and also the remedies that you can prepare on your own at minimal cost. Gladly, most of the remedies mentioned in the book have been given a clean bill of health by qualified doctors, and that will give anyone preparing for the winter season much needed confidence as far as maintaining health is concerned.
It is a good idea to try and prepare the recipes even when you are not suffering from any winter ailment, because the recipes are not just medicinal but also nutritional. Read on
Chapter 1: Ten Major Winter Ailments
Can you visualize the weather in winter? It is cold, in some areas it is not just cold but dry, while in other areas it is both cold and wet. One common factor in these scenarios is extremity the cold is extreme, likewise the dryness, and sometimes even the wetness. You can find a place drizzling all through winter while the cold cuts through peoples spines and numbs the limbs. All that harshness is acceptable especially because it is foreseeable, but it does not mean that people have gotten comfortable with the running nose and the cold rushes for those who suffer in this manner, or any of those uncomfortable effects of cold weather.
What happens is that they try to make do, swallowing a pill every now and then, as they pray for the season of discomforts to end quickly. Unfortunately, while such pills are good in relieving congestion in the chest and warding off pneumonia, a good many of them have side effects. For that reason, some people have learnt to avoid taking the medication unless their issue becomes a serious medical case. Luckily, you do not have to live with the discomforts that come with the extreme winter weather. There are some natural remedies that you can use to sooth any irritations that you may suffer in your respiratory system and even on your skin. If you are equipped with the right information as you are about to be after reading this book, you can even keep many of the winter ailments at bay, and you will not have to talk about cures. After all, prevention, in all cases, is far better than the effort to cure.
Ailments That Threaten People in winter
When contemplating prevention of ailments, it is important to know first the ailments that are likely to attack people over winter. According to the National Health Service of the UK, there are around 10 different ailments that are likely to be triggered by the cold winter weather, or to be made worse. These ailments include:
(1) Common cold
Sometimes the cold might not have originated with you but rather passed to you through contact, where you touch infected surfaces like door knobs and such. Other times you could just keep re-infecting yourself when you use a handkerchief and while you may think this is inevitable, you can actually protect yourself by using disposable tissue in place of a handkerchief.
(2) Sore throat
Mostly, when you get a sore throat in winter it is because you have a viral infection. In such times, you may need something more than just gaggling some salty water.
(3) Asthma
Asthma is underlined by wheezing and also being short of breath, and it is a condition often triggered by cold such as that of winter. Sometimes victims even use inhalers to open up the respiratory system, but helpful as they are, these rescue inhalers have their shortcomings.
(4) Norovirus
Beware of this winter bug that gets people vomiting. Although you can easily rehydrate yourself to counter the negative effects of vomiting and diarrhea, you would be better off preventing yourself from catching the norovirus in the first place.
(5) Suffering joint pains
If you ask people who suffer from arthritis, whose major manifestation is joint pain, they will confirm the pain is aggravated in the cold season. In winter, such people sometimes experience stiffness of the joints in addition to the intense pain. It is such symptoms that natural remedies target, so that you remain healthy in winter and stay out of pain.
(6) Cold sores
Why get so stressed that cold sores come in to underline the fact that your body is under extreme stress? You can learn about natural remedies and proceed to use them as preventative measure against cold sores.
(7) Heart attack
For people who suffer from high blood pressure, the condition is likely to become more serious in winter. This happens as the heart strives to pump blood more effectively to keep your body warm.
(8) Suffering the condition of cold hands
If you have witnessed someones fingers and toes turn blue, or even red or white in winter, they are, very likely, suffering from a painful condition that persists in winter. Some people reckon you have no choice but to live with the symptoms, but this is not exactly the case. You can preempt this condition and probably even alleviate it by making use of natural remedies. In the meantime, you need to maintain warmth by wearing socks as well as gloves in winter.
(9) The condition of dry skin
