But pneumonia is the cause, and cough is the result. It's not that you will get pneumonia if you cough too much, but that you will cough all the time if you get pneumonia. After COVID-19, sore throat, cough and phlegm are common symptoms. Under normal circumstances, relying on self-repair ability, you can really survive and recover well. However, if you cough for a week, accompanied by symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath, it is still recommended to go to the hospital for examination, and you can't delay it any longer. Here are a few tips to moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and then explain why most people have a lot of cough and phlegm after getting COVID-19.
First, a small coup to moisten the lungs and relieve cough
1. Drink water
Although the name is very popular, the effect is still good. My throat is swollen and dry. Drinking a little water can relieve the symptoms. Of course, this type of water is not single. You can choose warm boiled water, rock sugar stewed Sydney, egg tea, brown sugar ginger soup and other drinks according to your own conditions, preferences and circumstances.
There are three principles for drinking water:
(1) can moisten the throat. Many people who cough feel that the throat and the area below it are particularly dry. Drinking some water can moisten their throats and make them feel much better.
(2) Drinking plenty of water can dilute sputum and help to expel phlegm. It is uncomfortable to have phlegm in your throat. Drink more water, the concentration of sputum will be much lighter and it will be easier to discharge.
(3) It can promote urination and accelerate metabolism. During illness, our body will produce a lot of metabolic waste. Drinking more water can accelerate the discharge of these metabolic wastes and help us recover.
2. Diet therapy
Dietotherapy, as its name implies, is to recuperate by eating. I believe many people have seen many secret recipes or remedies for moistening lung and relieving cough on the Internet, such as brown sugar and ginger soup mentioned above and stewed Sydney with rock sugar. It is said that canned yellow peaches also have miraculous effects, so canned yellow peaches in many places have been swept away.
Although I haven't tried all the methods, according to my personal cough experience, foods with moderate temperature (slightly hot or cold) and a little sweetness, such as soup and tea, are more friendly to the throat and lungs.
It is worth noting that not all foods are suitable for you. The properties of food are different. Cough can also be divided into cold cough and hot cough, so different coughs have to eat different foods. If your cough is accompanied by a white nose and a thin white tongue coating, it is probably a cold cough. You should eat something warm, such as ginger, orange peel and apples. If the cough has yellow phlegm, runny nose and thick yellow tongue coating, it is probably a heat cough. You can have some Sydney, chrysanthemum tea and white radish (radish in winter and ginger in summer). Personally, eating seasonal fruits and vegetables is really good for us.
3. Others
We can also relieve cough by taking medicine and massaging acupoints. But if you take medicine, you'd better see a doctor before taking it. Because they can know what medicine to take and how much to eat. One more thing, you can't take medicine indiscriminately, because the risk of taking medicine indiscriminately is greater than hard resistance.
Massage is not recommended. "Hard work may create miracles", but massage is not as hard as possible. Pressing some acupoints can really relieve cough, but unfortunately, we don't necessarily press accurately, and we don't know with what force.
Second, the cause of cough after COVID-19.
COVID-19 mainly invades our upper respiratory tract, so we will feel nasal cavity, sore throat and even chest tightness. After it enters the human body, it will invade our normal cells, where it will reproduce and destroy. And our immune system will not be fooled by it, it will fight it and release inflammatory factors. Local inflammation caused by inflammatory factors can make us feel uncomfortable, such as sore throat and cough.
The sputum we cough up is composed of human cells such as mucus, pathogenic microorganisms and inflammatory cells. Because there are pathogenic microorganisms in it, it is recommended to spit in civilization. Wrap the sputum with a tissue.
Whether coughing or spitting, these can be understood as the behavior of the body to excrete waste. When we are completely recovered, we won't continue coughing. If we keep coughing, it means that there is always something to clean up, and it also means that our immune system has not finished its work. It is possible that we have bronchitis or pneumonia. If you don't get better in a week, you must seek medical advice in time to avoid more serious inflammation.
Third, personal feelings.
Cough is a common phenomenon after being infected with COVID-19 virus. We should not take it too seriously, and we can't help taking it seriously. Because someone really coughed and went to the hospital for examination and found pneumonia. So many people on the internet say that coughing for a long time will lead to pneumonia. I think this sentence is half right. Pneumonia is indeed related to chronic cough, but it is not cough that causes pneumonia, but pneumonia that causes coughing all the time.
Medical resources are quite tight now, so don't go to the hospital if you have nothing to do, but the situation is wrong (cough has not improved, and your physical condition has worsened), so you should go to the hospital in time.