What to do if you have a stuffy nose due to a cold

In daily life, if you catch a cold, it may sometimes cause nasal congestion, which can cause difficulty breathing and make you feel very uncomfortable. In addition to medication, you can also use some folk remedies to relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion, such as the green onion nasal clearing method, hot water fumigation method, and ginger and sugar water to promote ventilation method, which are all good ways to promote nasal ventilation.

1. Green onion nasal method

Find a scallion, peel off the dead skin on the outside, then rinse it with water, and eat the whole scallion while enduring its spicy taste. Remember, chew it to bring out the spiciness. Don't swallow it piece by piece, but chew it until it is soft before swallowing. In this way, nasal congestion will be improved or the symptoms of nasal congestion will disappear completely.

2. Hot water fumigation

If you have a stuffy nose, you can boil a pot of hot water. Remember, it should be boiling hot water with steam coming out of it. Then pour it into a cup, making sure the mouth of the cup is as narrow as possible. Then put your nose close to the cup and take a deep breath into the hot steam coming out of the cup. Yes, like this, if the water becomes cold and your nose is still blocked, change to another cup. After three cups, the symptoms can be relieved.

3. Drink ginger sugar water

Peel the ginger and cut it into thin slices. Remember, the thinner the better. Then boil a pot of water. While the water is boiling, put the ginger slices in. After it boils, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Drink it in one breath while the water is slightly cool. If you drink it three times, the problem of nasal congestion will be solved.

4. Massage therapy

Massage can also be soothing and even therapeutic. I think everyone has experience with this. That is, press the index fingers of both hands hard on both sides of the nose, and then press hard until both sides of the nose feel hot, then stop. The stuffy nose is solved.

5. Onion nose insertion

If you can tolerate the smell of onions, you can also mash the onions, then dip a cotton swab in the onion juice and put it directly into the nostrils that have the problem of bleeding. Sniff hard to absorb all the onion smell. After a while, the problem will be solved.