Simple therapy overcomes summer day health problems

Summer is an exciting time for people to relax or travel.To help everyone's fun not be interrupted by unintended health incidents, Dr. Rob Hicks of St Mary's Hospital in London introduces you to the following simple treatments:

Treat small wounds and skin infections: use honey

For centuries, honey has been used to treat skin wounds as well as burns. Currently this medicine is being used by many hospitals around the world to treat skin infections. According to experts, when exposed to damaged skin, honey releases hydrogen peroxide which helps kill bacteria. Moreover, sugar in honey will prevent bacteria from contacting water molecules, making them difficult to survive or reproduce.

How to do it: After washing the wound, apply a layer of honey and apply the wound with a clean cloth.

Biting insects: use concentrated tea

Being bitten by mosquitoes or ants is very itchy and uncomfortable. But if you scratch, your skin will be hurt, even cause skin infections. The best way to treat a non-swollen and itchy bite is to use thick tea.

How to do it: Take a clean cloth to absorb tea and apply it to the insect bite. If you use tea bag, you can put the whole tea bag on the wound. The acrid taste of the tea will make the wound hunt again, reducing inflammation.

Sunburn: use cucumber

Cucumber contains a large amount of vitamin C and caffeic acid, an antioxidant, both anti-inflammatory and reduces skin irritation. Although many other vegetables also contain vitamin C, cucumber is better because it works to cool the skin.

How to do it: For small areas of skin, you can apply thin cucumber pieces directly to the skin, while with larger areas of sunburn, smooth the cucumber and apply it on the skin.

Eye pain: use camomile tea

Camomile tea is a 'medicine' especially good for treating swollen or painful eyes due to lack of sleep, allergies or dust. The reason is that chamomile contains anti-irritating compounds such as terpenoids, flavonoids, which help relieve pain quickly.

How to do: Mix a cup of Roman chamomile tea, remove tea residue, let it cool and use clean cloth to soak the tea water and apply it to the eye area.

Motion sickness: use ginger

Some recent studies confirm that ginger works to prevent motion sickness very well. Experts believe that the compounds that make up the spicy taste of ginger gingerol and shogaol have brought this benefit, by inhibiting chemical signals in the brain, helping muscles in the stomach and intestines relax, thereby fighting nausea. You can drink ginger tea, eat ginger jam or dried ginger before departure.

Prolonged drunkenness: use bananas

Drinking alcohol and beer not only cause you to lose water (because alcohol is a diuretic) but also cause a feeling of dizziness and dizziness the next morning. The reason is normal, the liver releases glucose into the blood, but when there is alcohol, the liver is 'busy' handling the alcohol, leading to low blood sugar. Experts say eating a banana can help offset the shortage of sugar very well. Moreover, bananas are also good for the stomach after a night of alcohol 'harassment'.