How to warm up after frost

Winter is gaining momentum on the street becomes very uncomfortable. Escape from the cold, we hide in the oasis of heat - a favorite home. Even when he got home, we must be able to warm up properly. It turns out, and here there are some nuances.

The warm up after a cold?

You came from the street, and you are still cold. The fastest and most banal way to keep warm - warm, but not hot tea with lemon. Best of all - green tea with honey and lemon. If there is a milk, heat it and add a tablespoon of honey. Very nice to drink warm tea with ginger.

If you feel sick, you urgently need a good dose of vitamins and a hot shower. During the shower, do self-massage is useful: it will drive additional blood and relaxes you. Hot tub is not much help: after some time had the feeling that the body is in cold water. If the shower problem, make at least a foot bath.

And finally, if you're not going to have anywhere to leave the house, cook mulled wine. Abuse, of course, is not necessary. But wrapped in a warm blanket with a cup of mulled wine in hand and no longer dangerous to contemplate the space outside the window is not only useful, but also romantic.

What does not need to warm up?

Contrary to popular opinion, the alcohol can not bask. Especially if you are outside in the freezing weather. Yes, the first 50 grams of something good normalize blood circulation by expanding blood vessels, and bring a feeling of warmth. But if you take more, increased blood flow in the skin and greatly increases the body's heat. Thus, as a result of reception of alcohol has a chance to freeze rather than warm.

If you just feel that a cold, do not just take drugs, relieving symptoms (such as "koldreks" or "Theraflu"). Firstly, they do not cure you, but just a little ease your plight. Secondly, all of these powders contained a large amount of paracetamol, and it is strong enough destroys the liver. And for a very unpleasant paracetamol poisoning enough about four tablets.

In short, if gathered to drink symptomatic medication, do it only in extreme cases. It is better to try a simple and harmless way to keep warm, as described above.