효과적인 감기 및 독감 치료: 전문가 추천

### 효과적인 감기 및 독감 치료: 전문가 인사이트 및 권장 사항
* 💊 면허를 소지한 약사이자 약가 전문가인 Grant Harding이 감기 및 독감 증상을 효과적으로 치료하는 데 필수적인 인사이트를 공유하면서 **효과가 없는 제품에 대한 주의**를 당부합니다.
* 🤒 그는 독감과 감기와 같은 바이러스 감염의 차이점을 이해하는 것이 중요하다고 강조하며, **둘 다 증상이 비슷하지만 치료에는 다른 접근 방식**이 필요하다고 말합니다.
* 🚫 하딩은 **바이러스 감염에 항생제를 사용하는 것은 회복에 도움이 되지 않고 항생제 내성을 유발**할 수 있다고 경고하며, **데이퀼이나 나이퀼과 같은 많은 일반의약품은 효과가 없고 가격이 비싸**다고 강조합니다.
* 💡 대신, 그는 열과 통증에 액상 아세트아미노펜을 사용할 것을 권장하며, **118밀리리터에 1.25달러인 달러트리의 아세트아미노펜**이 저렴하다는 점을 강조합니다.
* 🌿 아연은 증상 발현 후 **48시간 이내에 섭취**하면 질병의 지속 시간을 줄여 병가를 하루나 이틀 정도 단축할 수 있기 때문에 유익한 보충제로 권장됩니다.
* 💊 하딩은 처방 옵션으로 타미플루를 언급했는데, 이 약은 병가를 줄여주지만 **증상 발현 후 24~48시간 이내에 신속하게 투여**해야 합니다.
* 🤧 그는 **콧물에는 디펜히드라민, 코막힘에는 슈도에페드린** 같은 제품을 추천하면서 효과적인 증상 치료의 중요성을 강조하는 한편, 효과가 없는 대체 약품에 대해서도 주의를 당부합니다.
* 💰 궁극적으로 하딩은 소비자들이 **고가의 비효율적인 감기 및 독감 약을 피함**으로써 **효과적인 치료법을 우선시하고 비용을 절약**하도록 권장합니다.

그랜트 하딩은 감기약과 독감약의 비효율성을 폭로하는 동시에 저렴하고 효과적인 치료법을 추천합니다.

I have in this bag the best medication to treat the cold and flu. Maybe your loved one is feeling rough right now. Maybe they have a virus and their nose is runny and they just feel all over horrible. Well, what's the best thing that you can help to treat yourself or someone else? There is a lot of products out there and not all of them are really that effective. In fact, most of them are junk, so it can be a very difficult experience trying to select the right product. I'm Grant Harding. I'm a licensed pharmacist in three states, a drug pricing expert, and although what I'm about to tell you here today is the exact same way I would treat myself or a loved one. Health-related information on YouTube does not apply to everyone and isn't medical advice. If you have a medical concern, make sure to get in touch with a healthcare provider. If you think you may have a medical emergency, get in touch with your doctor or local emergency number. That being said, I'm an expert in what I'm talking

about here today, and I feel very, very confident in everything I'm about to educate you on. So, the first thing we have to understand is what a virus is. Viruses are actually very, very different from bacterial infections, for example. Viruses have very sloppy metabolism, and they're very primitive. By strict definition, they technically aren't living, and I know that's very difficult to understand, but the point here I'm trying to make is this actually isn't very easy. Even though, for the most part, a common cold isn't going to cause serious issues, the flu definitely can, and treating it is not an easy task. So, a lot of people don't understand the difference between the flu and the common cold, and the reason for that is because the difference really isn't that important. So, the flu is a disease caused by the influenza virus. The common cold is kind of a colloquial term that people use to describe a condition caused by quite a few different viruses, but most commonly rhinovirus. So, what's the

difference. It's really tough to say. I mean, their genetic code is going to be different, but the symptoms are very, very similar. And, uh, uh, you really won't even know which one you have unless you do like extreme lab testing. So then, whenever you're feeling sick, do we really care about the difference? Not really. But before I teach you how to treat this condition, I want to tell you about the products to avoid because there is a lot of them. The number one thing is you cannot use antibiotics. A lot of people get upset if they go see a doctor when they're feeling, uh, sick, and they don't prescribe them anything. That's your best interest and society's best interest, by the way. If you take an antibiotic whenever you have a viral infection, not only are you not going to get better, you put our entire society at risk for developing resistance to those medications. Now, beyond that, there's quite a few over-the-counter medications that are absolute junk. Number one on my list is DayQuil and NyQuil. These are

garbanzo beans absolutely nothingness. These have medications in them to help treat symptoms, but not the actual virus itself. If you look at the back of the bottle here, look at the package here that contains things like acetaminophen, doxylamine, dextrorphan, and those are all wonderful drugs in and of their own right, but you needing this very specific combination is very unlikely. And to make things even worse, this is really expensive. These are like $20 a bottle or something like that. I'll show you a better way to treat these symptoms later. Next on the list is Theraflu, and I know this is so confusing because it literally has the word flu in the name, but it's the same thing. Look at the back. All it has is just, it's literally just Tylenol and a couple other things that they cram into one liquid. Now, on the off chance you actually do have symptoms that match all of these, I mean, you're welcome to try it, but I'd still rather you don't even buy

it because more than likely somewhere down the line you're going to have one or two of these symptoms and need the individual product itself and not this weird combination another medication. I tell people to never buy is guanosine. The brand name for this is Mucinex, and it is absolute junk. Studies have shown that it's not effective at all. It's supposed to help with cough, and it just doesn't. It's just junk. Another one is eonia, or however you say that. Um, I don't know. It doesn't do anything. But the granddaddy junkster, junkiest of them all, is this right here. I don't even know how to pronounce this. As a pharmacist, it is my duty to never know how to pronounce this. I call this OS soyum because it sounds like I'm saying it's oh so silly, and it is. This is complete and total junk. It does absolutely nothing. And what's very interesting about this is that quote-unquote active ingredient, which is not active at all, is incredibly dilute.

there's something in here that doesn't help, and there's not very much of it to prove to everyone how junky this is. I'm actually going to take this this year whenever I get sick, so that will be an upcoming video later. Now that we've thoroughly discussed all the junk out there, so what are things that actually help a lot of people like vitamin C, and what I can tell you about that is Vitamin C supplementation actually does help reduce the length of sick days if it's taken, you know, for a long period of time like a daily vitamin C supplement. But it doesn't help reduce the risk of getting sick, and once you are sick, it's not going to help you get better any quicker if you start taking it when you're sick. So I'll leave that up to you if you want to try that. For me personally, I don't use vitamin C whenever dealing with the flu or a cold. One of the things that helps a lot is just treating the symptoms rather

than the disease, but you can also treat the disease, as I'll talk about later. The most common symptom people have is fever and aches, and this is where liquid acetaminophen comes in. You can also use the tablets if you want, but a lot of people prefer the liquid when they're sick. It's kind of difficult to swallow sometimes, right, whenever you're feeling crummy. So, this is what I recommend. This is acetaminophen from the Dollar Tree. Now, I recommend this because this is the cheapest liquid acetaminophen you will ever find. Mind, and I actually looked at a wholesale distributor for it, and they don't even have a price this cheap. For $1.25, you get 118 milliliters or 4 fluid ounces, and you will never find a better price anywhere else. Dollar Tree acetaminophen is the best for treating fever and aches. A lot of people ask me about ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is fine as well. You can get 200 mg tablets at

the Dollar Tree. This was $1.25 for 30 tablets. I think this is a great deal. The ibuprofen is, in my opinion, a little bit better for pain related to inflammation. And if you're sick, that's not really inflammation, but it still definitely helps. It does reduce fever, and it does help with the aches as well. You can really use either product, but I typically recommend acetaminophen first. Now, if you have a runny nose, which definitely happens whenever people are feeling like they have a cold, the best thing to use for that is an antihistamine, such as diphenhydramine from the Dollar Tree. This was $1.25 for 36 tablets. And they also have a liquid version as well. Either one is perfectly fine as long as it's being dosed correctly. Diphenhydramine is a first-generation antihistamine, and it really works. If you ever taken it, like your nose feels very, very dry when you take diphenhydramine. A lot of people want

to know about the other anti-histamines. I typically don't recommend those, um, not for, uh, something like a cold. I mean, you can if you want to, but in my personal and professional opinion, D and hydramine, being first generation and short-acting, appears to have more of a powerful punch, which is what you want in this situation. People be getting nauseous whenever they're sick. I like this. This is actually a Coca-Cola syrup or a cola syrup, rather, um. It's just a very concentrated sugary liquid that you can get, uh, any sort of nausea relief at any pharmacy. I got this at Walgreens. But whichever one you want to use, and it just helps soothe and coat the stomach with a soothing, relaxing feeling. I also forgot to mention that, um, Dien hydramine actually helps with nausea as well. It's mostly, uh, nausea due to vertigo, but, um, I mean, I wouldn't. I would expect some relief from that if I was feeling nauseous from an illness as well.

The best thing for a cough when you're feeling sick: pure dextromethorphan. Dollar Tree is the only place I have ever seen pure dextromethorphan non-extended release. I have never seen this before in my life, so this is what I recommend: get 15 soft gels for $1.25. That is a great deal. This is one of my favorite finds in Dollar Tree, actually. The thing with dextromethorphan is it's not really that effective, but it's better than nothing, so this is typically what I recommend. I don't have any of this here right now with me, but for a sore throat, I always get a sore throat, and it bugs the heck out of me. There's two products I really like: there's a chloraseptic spray or its generic equivalent, which is phenol. You want to get the highest percentage you can find. It would probably be around 1.4%. Whatever the pharmacy has in the highest percentage, that's what you want.

They also make preparations, I think, with menthol in it. I love menthol as well. Get the highest percentage of menthol you get. We also have lozenges with phenol, menthol, benzocaine. I'm a big fan of benzocaine. Get all three, honestly, if you can find something that has all three in it with the highest possible percentage. This will really help your sore throat because if you're like me, I mean, that just really makes you miserable. Now, if you have a clogged nose instead of a runny nose, the best thing really is pseudoephedrine, but you have to ask the pharmacy for that. They track how much you buy, which really shouldn't be an issue, but keep in mind PSE Sudafed and its generic equivalent are different from PSE Sudafed PE. PSE Sudafed PE is phenylephrine. Phenylephrine is garbanzo beans. It's junk. Nobody likes it. Pseudoephedrine is pseudoephedrine. These are different chemicals. They're supposedly

similar, but like I said, Feno Efron just does nothing. We, as in the pharmacist community, do not stand fenine, okay? So, you're sick, you know what to avoid, and you know how to treat the symptoms. How the heck do you make yourself get better quicker? Well, it's right here. Believe it or not, zinc. Zinc has been shown to be effective in treating viruses. Now, before I get too far into this, there's also intranasal zinc, which I do not recommend, and neither do the sources I looked at to make this video. Apparently, intranasal zinc can cause irreversible lack of smell, which I thought was crazy. Zinc actually stops the virus from entering human cells, and there have been studies performed that prove that this is true, or at least we can feel confident making this recommendation. The studies that have been performed aren't the best, but they are good enough to make this something that I would recommend to myself or somebody that I loved. Lots of other very reputable sources agree with this recommendation. Now, the thing with

think is that you have to start it quickly within 48 hours. I saw one source that said within 72 hours. I'm going to say as quickly as possible the exact nanc that you start to feel sick. You should just have this on hand and you need to start taking it. So taking zinc, if you take it properly, will reduce the amount of sick days you have by about one or two days, which doesn't sound like a lot, but that's pretty par on course for a lot of our prescription medications, which I'll talk about in a moment. You obviously do not need a prescription for zinc. I want to make this point very, very clear. It doesn't matter what type of zinc you get. There's zinc gluconate and um I don't even know what the other types are. It doesn't matter as long as there's zinc in it. That is the important part because our studies aren't really the best. We don't really know what the dosing is and

I've seen anything from 10 to 24 mg every 1 to 4 hours for 3 to 7 days, which yes means you will be taking this very, very frequently, and uh, that's kind of annoying, but that's just the way it is. So, I was only able to find 30 mg tablets. Whenever I was buying this, I would just split these in half and take it probably every 2 hours while awake. There are also lots of zinc-containing products, which are great, but they're very, very expensive, and you can tell here some of the ones I'm showing, they have lots of other junk in there, things that you don't need. Now, our prescription medication for the flu and um, potentially the common cold, although its indication is for the flu, is called Tamiflu, and there's a couple other similar medications, and they only reduce the sick days by about 1 to 2 days, which is very similar to zinc. Now, the data we have for Tamiflu is much better, but

It actually doesn't keep people out of the hospital any less. It doesn't stop really severe complications of the flu. It just reduces the sick days, which is still better than nothing. But the reason why I bring that up is if you don't have insurance or you don't have access to a physician, I would recommend zinc in those situations. Now, if you do have a prescription for Tamiflu or something similar, it's very cheap. If you use my discount card, you can go to crushcost.com, and it's around $20, I think, for a five-day course, I believe is what it is. Now, I will mention this: most pharmacists hate Tamiflu because they put an expiration date on their product for one year, which means at the end of flu season, we send them all back to the distributor. And it's every year we have to buy it over again, and there's no reason for that. It's not like the flu shot where it's trying to predict the strains. The Tamiflu is the same thing every year.

they just very sneakily put that uh short expiration date on the package. Same thing with Tammy flu or any uh prescription similar medication. You have to start it very, very quickly within 24 to 48 hours. Because of this, I've never used it. It's too difficult for me to start getting sick, make an appointment to see a doctor, and have a pharmacy fill it. And I don't believe, at least I've never asked, I don't think Physicians would be too comfortable writing a prescription and just keeping it on file until you need it. I wish more Physicians would do that, actually. Um, but I' I've never been able to use that Med, so I don't have any personal experience with Tammy flu. That's all I have to say about that. I want you to feel better. I want you to save money. Visit me at Crush cost.com. [Music]

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Grant Harting

감기 및 독감에 대한 효과적인 치료

약사 면허를 소지한 그랜트 하딩이 바이러스 감염과 박테리아 감염의 차이점을 강조하면서 효과적인 감기 및 독감 치료제를 선택하는 데 따르는 어려움에 대해 설명합니다.

그는 감기와 독감의 증상이 비슷하다는 점과 바이러스 감염에 항생제를 사용하지 않는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조합니다.

또한 하딩은 데이퀼이나 나이퀼과 같이 효과가 없는 일반의약품에 대해서도 경고합니다.

감기 및 독감 증상에 효과가 없는 약물

아세트아미노펜과 독실아민을 함유한 일반의약품은 감기 및 독감 증상에 필요한 특정 완화 효과를 제공하지 않을 가능성이 높으며 가격이 비쌀 수 있습니다.

테라플루와 뮤시넥스도 기침 완화에 실질적인 도움이 되지 않는다는 연구 결과가 있을 정도로 효과가 없습니다.

비타민 C 보충제는 매일 복용하면 아픈 기간을 줄일 수 있지만, 질병을 예방하거나 병에 걸렸을 때 회복 속도를 빠르게 하지는 못합니다.

일반적인 질병 증상에 대한 경제적인 치료법

달러 트리의 액상 아세트아미노펜은 열과 통증을 치료하는 데 가장 저렴한 옵션으로, 118ml에 1.

이부프로펜도 같은 매장에서 200mg 정제 30정에 1.

25달러에 구입할 수 있으며 통증과 열을 낮추는 데 효과적입니다.

콧물에는 1세대 항히스타민제인 디펜히드라민이 36정에 1.

25달러에 판매되고 있으며, 메스꺼움 완화에는 콜라 시럽을 추천합니다.

기침과 인후통에 효과적인 치료법

기침 완화에는 달러 트리의 순수 덱스트로메토르판 소프트 젤을 추천합니다.

목이 아플 때는 페놀, 멘톨, 벤조카인이 함유된 클로라세틱 스프레이, 멘톨, 로젠지를 추천합니다.

코 막힘에는 슈도에페드린이 가장 좋으며, 바이러스 치료에 효과가 있는 아연은 권장됩니다.

질병에 대한 아연 섭취를 빠르게 시작하는 것의 중요성

아연은 몸이 아프기 시작하는 즉시, 이상적으로는 48~72시간 이내에 복용해야 병가를 1~2일 단축할 수 있습니다.

아연의 종류는 중요하지 않으며, 어떤 형태로든 아연을 섭취하는 것이 중요합니다.

복용량은 3~7일 동안 1~4시간마다 10~24mg을 복용하는 것이 일반적이며, 30mg 정제를 쪼개서 복용하는 것이 일반적인 방법입니다.

독감 백신은 병가를 줄여주지만 입원이나 심각한 합병증을 예방하지는 못합니다.

보험이 없는 분들에게는 아연이 권장되며, 타미플루는 저렴한 처방 옵션입니다.

타미플루의 유통기한이 짧아 약사들이 유통업체에 반품하는 경우가 많아 매년 재구매로 이어집니다.