5 "old wives" therapies, which are actually hazardous to health

Since childhood we've learned that any injuries treated by shock doses of onions and garlic, hot tea with lemon, raspberry jam and boiled potatoes, over which you need hard to breathe. But with the development of science and new knowledge about the human body, it became obvious that most of the "Granny" methods of treatment not only useless, but even dangerous.

This pseudohyphae we want to tell you below.

Confess, you're also doing it? If Yes, then you should know what the position of the head causes bleeding from the nose enters the esophagus and stomach. Although it is not dangerous, but extremely unpleasant, as it can lead to nausea and vomiting. It is best in this situation, bend forward and put on the nose a cold compress, waiting until the bleeding stops.

This method is especially often used by pregnant women, as a pharmacy remedy for heartburn they are forbidden. And in fairness it should be noted that soda really neutralizes the burning sensation behind the breastbone, because when it is swallowed, a reaction takes place similar to the damping of soda in cooking.

This is only our grandmother was obviously not aware that after this "cocktail" of acid in the stomach begins to produce in large quantities than before. Because of this inflammation occurs the walls of the stomach and the development of many serious diseases.

Well, one of us has ever been breathed over the potatoes? This is probably the most common method of "treatment" for colds and runny nose. Using these nebulizers can be great to warm up your throat and breathe along with couples a lot of nutrients. However, you also have all the chances to burns of the respiratory tract, damage to mucous membranes of the eyes and even lose consciousness if before the procedure you had high fever.

Remember one simple rule: any burn in the first place need to be cooled, for example, a regular cool tap water. If applied to a fresh burn vegetable oil as advised to us by our grandmothers, the skin temperature will only rise, and with it, pain and tissue damage.

In the Armory of any person born before the 2000s, is bound to have iodine and brilliant green — assistants on all occasions. They smear scratches, pimples, major wounds, bruises, cuts, and all that we can to anoint. But this approach to treatment is incorrect: these funds are suitable only for treatment of minor abrasions.

In all other cases, iodine and Zelenka can only be applied around the wound, but not inside, because in this way you risk getting a chemical burn and greatly slow down the healing process.

And what of these "Granny" methods you still use today?