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The kid was unwell, and the doctor has advised to put mustard plasters …

Mustard plasters, probably, saw and felt "on itself" almost all. These are the sheets of paper covered on the one hand with a thin layer of a fat-free dry powder, received of seeds black gorchitsy. In medical practice this powder operates on a skin for the purpose of irritation and derivation. First of all, mustard plasters cause reddening of a skin, expansion of a vascular grid and blood inflow to a place of their imposing. Excitability of vegetative nervous system - sympathetic and parasympathetic simultaneously raises. As a result of reflex increase of a tone of nice nervous system and accumulation in blood of products of excitation (adrenaline, noradrenalina), protective function of an organism of the child raises. Application of mustard plasters also is based on this principle as stimulators of immunity of the child during cold.

Distracting action is a creation by means of a mustard plaster of the additional centre of irritation. It is necessary, for example, if the child is sick stenozirujushchim laringotraheitom which is accompanied utrudnennym by breath, the deep cough, the become hoarse voice. For distracting effect mustard plasters put on ikronozhnye sites of feet. As a result of blood redistribution, inflammation and hypostasis process in the basic centre of disease decreases.

Operating substance of a mustard plaster is radio mustard oil and flying substances - fitontsidy which are allocated under the influence of water and the enzyme which is present at the mustard.

Before to put mustard plasters, it is necessary to prepare all necessary for performance of this procedure. Two wide rags of a gauze, a towel, warm sunflower-seed oil, vaseline or a humidifying children's cream, a blanket and, certainly, mustard plasters will be necessary to you a vessel with the warm water. All is ready?

Approach to the kid and attentively examine its skin - whether there are no irritations, reddenings, vysypany, damages. In such cases imposing of mustard plasters can cause a pain. It is obligatory to consider also, that the skin is very sensitive to action of mustard essence, and it is necessary to avoid hit gorchitsy on mucous membranes. At one children skin reddening comes in 3-5 minutes, at others through 5-10. Therefore, if you carry out procedure for the first time, do not take a great interest in a considerable quantity of mustard plasters, and also periodically look at colour of a skin under them.

If everything is all right with a skin which you have just examined, moisten with sunflower-seed oil a gauze and put it to a back of the child either over a breast or in a site which was specified by the doctor. Over a gauze densely impose the mustard plasters moistened with preliminary warm water. From above put a towel and cover the kid a blanket.

In some minutes the kid will feel heat, and sometimes and a pain. To remove mustard plasters it is necessary, in case of occurrence of proof reddening, in 5-10 minutes, cautiously wiping a skin other rag of the gauze moistened with warm water to remove all rests of a mustard powder from a surface of a skin. After that a skin wipe dry a towel and grease with vaseline or a children's cream. Do not abuse time of action of a mustard plaster. It can end with a burn of a skin with the advent of blisters.

If the house there were no "chemist's" mustard plasters, or the skin of the kid is too sensitive, it is possible to make mustard plasters independently. For this purpose take a powder dry gorchitsy, add warm water to receive a porridge consistence, impose this weight on small squares or paper strips, and from above cover with a paper of the same size. Remember that water should not be too hot because it will simply destroy enzyme gorchitsy on which actually and all action of a mustard plaster depends.

If the skin of the kid is very sensitive, and you worry, that it did not have an irritation or a burn make the "weakened" mustard plasters. For this purpose mix a part dry gorchitsy with two or and three same parts of usual wheat flour. Execute all previous manipulations on preparation of a "house" mustard plaster further.

Sometimes there is a necessity to make mustard obertyvanija. It occurs when it is necessary to reduce blood inflow to internal bodies.

For mustard obertyvany take thick bajkovuju a diaper and a solution gorchitsy for which preparation take 2-3 table spoons dry gorchitsy on 1 l of warm water. Then it is necessary to moisten a diaper in a solution, well it to wring out and turn in it the child. After that the kid warmly cover. In 5-10 minutes develop the kid, rub off warm water, wipe dry and dress in warm clothes.