The negative effects of antibiotics on the body of modern science has long known. Each course welcome such drugs reduces immunity by 50-70%.
Not only drugs but also meat may contain antibiotics. Therefore, we must be very careful about their diet, especially after an illness when you need to lift immunity. Well, if the reception of such drugs is inevitable, it is necessary to know how to lift immunity after antibiotics.
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The drugs to enhance immunity
When the protective function of the body after ingestion of antibiotics consumed, to the aid of drugs, improve immunity:
Natural origin containing echinacea, ginseng, such as Immunal.
This is not by all means, in each case, the necessary treatment the doctor chooses. Also, it can be bioregulators such as Timalin and thymusamin. These are preparations extracted from the thymus gland of cattle. They are most effective for lifting immunity. But the use of such means is not limited to recovery of the body, certainly in the diet should include trace elements selenium, zinc, lithium.
Immunomodulators prescribed often ill for a long time recovering from an illness to humans for the treatment of severe and prolonged infections, including the background of antibiotics. They are united in several groups with different structures and mechanisms of action:
Immunoglobulins - protein antibody. They bind to viruses, bacteria, and eliminate them from the body. Applied, including for the treatment of children.
Immunoregulatory proteins. Prepared from thymus and bone marrow of animals. Used in the treatment of acute and chronic infections in fractures, reduced cellular immunity in children and adults.
Cytokines. Betaleukin and roncoleukin affect the interaction of immune cells. Betaleukin increases the production of interferon, accelerate the healing process, the formation of antibodies, increased platelets. It is administered after the irradiation, chemotherapy. Roncoleukin applies even in newborns and increase the antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-tumor immunity.
Interferons - synthesized by cells of protective proteins. They are prescribed for viruses, herpes, hepatitis. Permitted receiving any antibiotic.
Leukinferon - natural interferon from human blood leukocytes. They treat sepsis, viral infection, chlamydia, tuberculosis. In the treatment of viral infections use nose drops Grippferon, candles Viferon, Genferon, which include interferon.
Polioksidony - synthetic immunomodulator, strengthens the immune system, binds and removes toxins from the body.
Imunoriks - synthetic immunomodulator with a broad spectrum of activity, used mainly in the upper respiratory tract.
Immunomodulators of bacterial origin have IRS 19 - prevention of SARS and influenza, Imudon - treatment of diseases of the oral cavity and pharynx, bronchi-munal is used to prevent chronic lung disease and seasonal infections.
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The principles of healthy eating
To boost immunity after taking antibiotics, you must follow some rules:
Eat more foods rich in vitamin C: black currants, citrus fruits, sauerkraut, cranberry;
Include in your diet, vitamin A: carrots, tomatoes, squash and other products of red and yellow, containing beta-carotene, which is converted in the body into vitamin A;
Vitamins are contained in buckwheat, sunflower seeds, beans, whole grain bread, cheese, mushrooms. They are required by the body after treatment with antibiotics.
There are nuts, seeds, dark chocolate. They contain a huge amount of minerals;
Drink decoction of chamomile, St. John's wort, green tea, which is a powerful antioxidant and removes radionuclides from the body;
Take herbal drugs based on Echinacea, Eleutherococcus, ginseng;
Be sure to include in the diet of dairy products that are useful for the intestinal microflora: kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese. Kefir is useful to drink a glass at night and in the morning on an empty stomach. These products can be supplemented with live lactic acid bacteria contained in the product Bifidumbacterin, Lactobacterin and others;
Exclude bakery products, sweet and flour. Instead eat bread bran, which stimulate the bowels;
Intestinal microflora help normalize the garlic, onions and apples. Onions and garlic are probiotics that enhance the growth of beneficial bacteria in the body;
Eat unsaturated fatty acids contained in seafood, fish. But do not abuse the heat treatment, since the nutrients evaporate. Well there are herring, squid.
Beneficial effect on the recovery of the body bath, which takes waste products and toxins, activates processes of heat transfer. But to start such procedures should be gradually, for several minutes, then it will be possible to alternate steam with a cold shower. But do not forget that the bath is not all useful, but someone and is contraindicated, for example, people with thyroid disease, heart.
Not only after taking antibiotics, but also to strengthen the body useful exercise. It can be charged, walking, swimming, hardening. But all necessary measure!
It is not necessary to burden themselves immediately after an illness severe exercise.
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Recipes vitamin drinks for immunity
3 apples with the peel cut into slices and pour a liter of water for 10 minutes to simmer, then press for about 30 minutes, add to taste honey in cold tea.
1 part orange peel, black tea and ½ of the lemon peels pour boiling water and infuse for 5 minutes. You can add orange syrup. To 1 liter of water is taken 60 g of dry formula.
Hips boil for 3-4 minutes, or a thermos, strain, add sugar or honey.
Cranberry mash with a fork in a glass, pour boiling hot water or tea, add sugar to taste.
Brew strong black tea, strain, cool and add the same amount of black currant juice and ½ of the mineral water. You can add sugar.
Drinking black tea with apple juice: 150 ml of tea, juice and 50 ml. In hot strong tea and pour the juice drink.
On 2 cups of boiling water to take 2 tablespoons of grass succession, insist hour, drain. Drink throughout the day.
In 1 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon taken the collection: in equal parts strawberry leaves, chamomile flowers pharmacies, herb series. Drink tea instead.
A tablespoon of horsetail pour a cup of boiling water, insist hour, strain and drink throughout the day.
Finely chopped branches of raspberry, pour a glass of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes to wrap up, and after 2 hours you can drink a few sips every hour.
Very helpful for the immune system and the body's recovery after the disease is a mixture of raisins, walnuts, dried apricots, honey and lemon juice. Taken roughly equal proportions, add the juice of half a lemon. Take it should be three times a day on a tablespoon.
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Methods for hardening
Immunity - the ability of the human body to resist bacteria and germs, to recognize and destroy them. For this purpose there are leukocytes and lymphocytes - blood cells. The faster they move, the more effective their work. That is, the immunity depends on the speed of movement of these cells and their mobility by the body temperature. Bacteria multiply rapidly upon cooling and slowing the velocity of immune cells.
There are various methods of hardening, for example, every day to reduce the water temperature by a degree. With regard to this method, opinions diverge.
Another method, by contrast, directed to the heating body. To implement this method in practice well into the bath. You can alternate the deep warm or warming up with a short-term cooling.
The practical application of the above methods in combination enhances immunity, healing and rejuvenation.
