Cold and Flu: Solutions and Medications

The autumn-winter period is a real test for parents since children can get viral infections up to 3–4 times a month. Toddlers are contraindicated for adults. Antibiotics do more harm than good. The cold and flu remedy for children from Natrabio is a homeopathic remedy that allows you to get rid of the symptoms of SARS, moreover, it does not contain harmful substances.

The herbal preparation for children is a supplement that does not contain alcohol and sugar, and effectively eliminates the first signs of a cold. The homeopathic remedy does not cause drowsiness, or addiction, and can be used to treat children from the first year of life. By production, all standards of the pharmacology of the USA are observed.

The use of this dietary supplement allows you to solve the following problems in a child:

• nasal congestion and runny nose;
• sneezing and sore throat;
• nausea and even vomiting;
• headache, body aches, and other symptoms of a cold or flu.

At the first symptoms, you need to give the child a remedy by the dosage indicated in the instructions. The drug facilitates the course of acute respiratory viral infections or flu, reduces fever, helps to eliminate nasal congestion and runny nose, and also fights sore throat.

The Composition of the Drug

Cold & Flu contains the following natural ingredients:

• aconite;
• echinacea;
• Red onion;
• Euphrasia Officinalis balm;
• yellow jessamine;
• inactive ingredients — citric acid, glycerin, purified water.

The main active ingredient is aconite, which is part of many homeopathic preparations designed to combat viral infections. First of all, it relieves the condition of fevers that occur without increased sweating, but are accompanied by chills.

Indications

For temporary relief of cold and flu symptoms such as nasal congestion, sore throat, nausea and vomiting, sneezing, runny nose, headache, and body aches. With signs of acute respiratory and viral diseases.

Contraindications

Individual intolerance to the components of the product.

Dosage and Administration

For children and infants over 4 months of age, give 0.5 ml under the tongue every 20 minutes until symptoms disappear, then repeat every 4 hours or as needed.

Overdose

Paracetamol

The drug consists of the popular substance paracetamol. Why is an overdose of paracetamol dangerous? Adults who take 10 g or more of paracetamol may develop renal failure. Taking 5 g or more of paracetamol can cause liver damage if risk factors are present: long-term treatment with carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, primidone, rifampicin, or other drugs that induce liver enzymes, alcohol abuse, glutathione deficiency (eg, malnutrition) cystic fibrosis, HIV infection, starvation, cachexia.

Symptoms: with an overdose of paracetamol in the first 24 hours — blanching, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, and pain in the abdomen.

Liver damage can occur within 12 to 48 hours after the use of the drug.

In case of an overdose of paracetamol, despite the absence of primary symptoms of an overdose, it is necessary to seek qualified help from medical institutions. To prevent the serious consequences of an overdose, the necessary measures should be taken promptly.

Symptoms may appear only partially as nausea or vomiting, and may not reflect the actual degree of overdose or risk of organ damage.

In severe overdose — liver failure with progressive encephalopathy, coma, death; acute renal failure with tubular necrosis (including in the absence of severe liver damage); arrhythmia, pancreatitis.

Phenylephrine

Symptoms: irritability, headache, increased blood pressure. In the event of these symptoms of an overdose, you should consult a doctor.

Treatment: administration of SH-group donators and precursors of glutathione synthesis — methionine within 8–9 hours after an overdose and acetylcysteine — within 8 hours. The need for additional therapeutic measures (further administration of methionine, intravenous administration of acetylcysteine) is determined depending on the concentration of paracetamol in the blood, as well as the time elapsed after taking it.