How to recover a ripped voice

Alas, every vocalist sooner or later faces a loss of voice. Very often, the cause of a broken voice is not intense vocal lessons, but a cry, especially in a state of strong anger or affect. A broken voice disappears not as during a cold, but suddenly immediately after a shout or even during it. He immediately becomes hoarse and then disappears altogether. The vocalist can only speak in a whisper, experiencing pain. Here are the steps you need to take immediately after you have disrupted your voice.

First aid for a broken voice

To avoid the dangerous effects of a voice injury, first of all you need to take it as soon as you feel a vulture and sudden hoarseness.

1. Immediately shut up. In the first minutes it can be explained only by gestures, because, depending on the degree of damage to the ligaments, bleeding may open. To prevent this from happening, you need to shut up and not speak at all for the first two hours. Especially if you hurt to speak or your voice has become weak and hoarse.
2. Wrap your neck with a warm scarf or soft wool fabrics, such as a sweater collar or a fur jacket. At first, this will soften the unpleasant feeling and allow the muscles of the larynx to relax. The neck should be kept warm all the time, even in summer. If you have ripped off your voice, you should wrap the throat area with a soft scarf or just natural fabrics.
3. Seek medical attention immediately. If your city does not have a phoniatrist, an ordinary otolaryngologist can also provide assistance. Using a special mirror, he will examine your ligaments and tell you what to do in a particular case, depending on the area of ​​injury and the nature of the injury. It happens that the damage to the ligaments may be minor and they recover quickly. But in some cases, the voice can be completely lost forever, so the sooner the doctor prescribes treatment for you, the faster the voice will recover and the less likelihood of the irreversible effects of the injury. But if this is impossible, the best medicine for a broken voice is silence. At this time, even mental singing must be stopped, as it strains the ligaments and may delay the treatment of the effects of the injury.
4. Drink a soft warming drink. Tea with milk, herbal decoctions with honey at room temperature will help relieve tension and ease the consequences of injury. But treatment by a specialist and his professional examination cannot be replaced. Therefore, do not self-medicate: without qualified help, the voice may not recover.

What to do if you broke the voice during a concert right on the stage? If you sang in a choir or in an ensemble, just take the microphone aside and smile to the audience. Radio operators or sound specialists understand this gesture and may issue the following numbers under the phonogram. That is why many performers on the big stage sing under the recording of their voice, so that tiredness, a hoarse voice or a broken voice will not force them to cancel a performance for which money has been paid.

What to do if suddenly osyp, lost voice? How to survive the periods of exacerbation of laryngitis - the occupational disease of teachers, singers, and speakers - as painless as possible? Today, with such manifestations as soreness when breathing and swallowing, dry cough, swelling of the mucous membranes and others, the complex homeopathic drug GOMEOWOX does a good job. The drug begins to act quickly and gently, eliminating, above all, the cause of the disease.

Therefore, even if you are singing without a voice recording, it is best for you to provide the recordings to the sound specialist in advance so that in such an extreme situation as a broken voice during a performance you can continue the concert and simply move on stage, pretending to be singing.

Sometimes the organizers of the concert can cancel the numbers and release other artists on the stage. In opera houses, it is customary to teach double parties so that if you lose your voice in the next act, you will release the doubler on the stage. But this possibility exists only in professional opera groups, and ordinary performers cannot be expected to fully replace an actor. In an opera, an understudy can quietly penetrate the stage and continue working after you.

If you have broken the voice in the choir or in the ensemble, you just need to open your mouth and say the words to yourself. This will help you avoid embarrassment and adequately hold out until the curtain closes. When it is lowered, you can leave the team and go home. Usually there are substitute soloists in the choir who can replace you in a team, or the organizers will simply remove the solo numbers.

How to recover a ripped voice

First of all, you need to be silent as much as possible and take the drugs your doctor will prescribe. Even simple conversations at the time of recovery will have to be replaced by gestures or answers formulated in short words. A good remedy for the treatment of a broken voice is the drug falymint. Its formula allows you to quickly restore the elasticity of the vocal cords and return to work. But only a doctor can give basic recommendations on how to restore a broken voice. Therefore, you need to do what he advises in the first place.

During treatment, vocal classes are canceled, depending on the degree of injury. Most often this period is 2 weeks. During the period of treatment, it is necessary to be silent as much as possible, try not to sing even to yourself, because at this time the injured ligaments begin to hesitate and rub against each other. This may contribute to delaying the recovery period.

Milk with honey becomes an auxiliary tool to restore the elasticity of the vocal cords. It is better to take the store milk without froth, heat it to room temperature, add a tablespoon of liquid honey to it, stir and drink slowly in large gulps. In some cases, this tool helps to restore the voice in a few days. Here is another way to recover a ripped voice quickly if the injury is small. You need to take aniseed seeds, brew them like tea, and drink it with milk in big sips. The infusion should not be hot, but very warm so that it is easy to drink. Anise seeds have unique capabilities, and they were used to restore the voice during the time of Hippocrates.

But even if you restored the voice, you need to analyze the cause of the incident and try to avoid repeating the situation. You should not proceed to intensive loads at this time, since the voice is fully restored within a month after the injury.

How not to disrupt the voice

A few simple steps will allow you to avoid voice injuries in the future. Here are a few rules how not to disrupt the voice.

1. Learn to prove your point without screaming. Most often, vocalists break their voices not during the singing of complex works, but in domestic conflicts, especially if they happen after singing. So professional singers should learn to prove their case by avoiding raised tones.
2. Do not force the sound while singing. Some teachers, trying to make the student's voice strong, use exercises to force the sound. If it is difficult and inconvenient for you to sing after class, you should think about changing the teacher or even the musical direction that you have chosen. Being engaged with a patient teacher, you will know exactly how not to disrupt the voice during a responsible performance, as he uses a soft attack of sound and teaches singing in quiet nuances. Remember that a loud, forced sound, formed by ligaments without respiratory support, is harmful to singing and can lead not only to early wear of the voice, but also to dangerous injuries.
3. You should not sing in the cold or in a cold room, especially loudly. A cold is a provocateur of voice injuries, in particular, if singing in the cold is accompanied by drinking alcoholic beverages or eating ice cream. After you have eaten ice cream, you need to sing no sooner than after 2 hours. And ice drinks in general before singing is not recommended.

Do not force the sound and do not sing on the bundles. The characteristic ligamentous sound is easily recognized by its shrill timbre and the inability to control the volume of the sound. This sound is very harmful for ligaments and can also lead to hoarseness and loss of voice.