Beat The Flu With A Chest Infection Care Plan

Chest infections are N A S T Y. They can be painful and uncomfortable and make you feel absolutely miserable. A chest infection is a bacterial or viral infection that begins in the airways in your throat and travels down into the lungs. Bronchitis and pneumonia are the two main types of chest infections which can impact your voice and breathing. Planning For Care offers a chest infection care plan which can help treat severe cases of chest infections. However if you feel a small chest infection coming on, read our tips on how to prevent your illness from getting worse.

Rest Up

When you get a little infection the body naturally tries to fight it off. Why put your body in more stress than it has to be? So try and avoid exercise or strenuous activity . Eat healthy and nutritious food that will help fuel your body the energy it needs to fight off the bacteria and the most important thing to do…? Stay at home. Don’t feel ashamed to take a day off work – nobody in the office will be annoyed if you don’t want to spread germs and cause even more illnesses.

Drink Plenty Of Water

Staying hydrated will help speed up the healing process. Drinking water, fruit juices and broth based drinks (such as vegetable soup) will help turn the thick, sticky mucus into a think liquid that you can easily cough up and get rid of.  Drinking water also has the health benefits of boosting your immune system – especially needed at a time like this.

Sweat It Out

A great way to feel better if you feel stuffed up is to expose your skin to steam and sweat out the infection. Here are some great tips on how to do this at home:

• Sit in a really warm bath or shower with the door closed to let the room fill up with steam
• Fill a bowl of boiling water and sit over it with a towel over your head
• Add eposm salts and some essential oils to your bath to prevent and aches or pains

Hot Lemon & Honey

Drinking honey in tea with lemon  or even adding honey and lemon to hot water can ease the sore throat pain. Previous research has suggested that honey is an effective cough suppressant and throat soother. The hot drink will also aid in relieving some of the thick mucus that is stuck in your throat and the lemon is full of infection fighting vitamins and minerals. 

Horace Reistad

Horace is a health and wellness researcher with expertise in holistic medicine and evidence-based treatments. His writing covers everything from nutrition and fitness to emerging healthcare technologies.