As we are heading towards the end of summer and settling back into our routines, it’s good to take a while to think about the best moments we have lived through during the last few months. You probably have many stories and anecdotes to tell regarding trips, weekend getaways and hot summer nights. Unfortunately, the winding down of this season may also bring back some bad memories related, for example, to unfulfilled expectations, health issues and diseases. The latter can result from many causes, among which the lack of both moderation and proper rest stands out.
Extremely popular during the summer months, music festivals are an utter breeding ground for diseases, especially colds. If you’ve ever attended one of these non-stop events and have come out just fine, consider yourself lucky! Festivals, which generally include lots of live concerts and feature a wide number of artists, come as a ‘tour de force’ that push our bodies to their limit.
It doesn’t matter whether you bring a tent and a sleeping bag with you. In such festivals, people barely sleep for a few days in a row. Concerts usually last until dawn, and the night is over before you know it. As a matter of fact, people who don’t get enough sleep (those sleeping less than six hours a night) are way more likely to get sick after being exposed to certain pathogens such as the common cold. Why? The truth is that sleep deprivation has an impact on our immune system, which loses antibodies and cells that are necessary to prevent, fight off and get over infectious diseases.
However, the lack of sleep isn’t the only source of problems involving music festivals. Different studies have provided evidence that continued high alcohol consumption can also affect the immune response and put us at a higher risk for infections. If you add this to the fact of breathing in smoke cigarette, which is clearly bad for our respiratory system, the chances of getting ill substantially increase. And, of course, both alcohol and smoke are widely present in these kinds of festivals.
Finally, we must not forget that music festivals gather so many people who come from lots of different places and interact with one another. The way such events work often keeps people from proper hygienic and sanitary conditions, so it comes as no surprise that pathogens can easily take hold in the attendees (rolling in the mud can be fun… as long as you can take a shower afterward!).
Anticipating trouble
The combination of such factors -lack of sleep, alcohol intake and a crowd in an environment with hesitant conditions of hygiene- can make you sick and leave you exhausted for quite a while, especially if you don’t get enough rest. Even in mild cases, viral infections such as the common cold and the flu can lead to other health issues like sinusitis, which may linger for a long time and provide a poor quality of life.
To prevent that from happening, we strongly recommend you to bring Nasodren® with you when going to a music festival. Due to its unique mechanism of action, our 100% natural treatment for sinusitis symptoms allows for a complete clearance of the nasal and paranasal passages, thus preventing mucous secretions from being retained in the sinuses and, thus, eventual infections.
We hope you don’t take us wrong. In general, music festivals are fun-filled, with plenty of memorable nigths. The point, though, is that you remember them for the right reasons!
