Sore Throat
July 29, 2008
A sore throat is medically known as pharyngitis. Painful swallowing and dry scratchiness in your throat are associated with the sore throat. The complications with sore throat vanish with in a week in many cases. The causes, symptoms vary from person to person and are mentioned below:
Causes- Sore throat can be caused by some viruses like cold and tonsillitis. Some bacteria can also cause sore throat such as smoking, breathing in polluted air, allergy, drinking alcohol and fever. Sometimes breathing through the mouth can cause sore throat in the absence of any infection. In the winter dry air season, most of the people get up with a sore throat. Common cold is another illness that can cause sore throat.
Symptoms- Many people have a minor sore throat at the beginning of every cold. Whenever the nose or sinuses become infected, drainage can run down the back of the throat and started irritating it and this happens especially at night but in some cases the throat itself can be infected.
Sneezing, cough, slight body ache, headache, watery eyes and a low fever are some of the important symptoms of sore throat. If you are having sore throat with influenza then you may have body ache, fatigue, chills, sweats and fever less than 102F as symptom.
Person having sore throat with mononucleosis (viral illness) may have some signs and symptoms typically last about 10 days. Swollen lymph nodes in neck and armpits, rashes on skin, headache, loss of appetite, liver inflammation and swollen tonsillitis are some of them. Patient can take two weeks to recover the strength.
How To Cure
Take warm water and put pinch of salt in it. Gargle several times a day with that water as it may prove helpful in curing the problem.
Suck the hard candies as it can be very soothing. The hard candies are important to produce saliva. This is an effective remedy but you have not given it to young children as it may have choking risk.
A humidifier can prove helpful in relieving symptoms, especially when you are having sore throats caused by mouth breathing and dry air.
It was tempting that not to drink too much if you have swallow throat but you will be dehydrated if you don’t drink enough among of water. So, try to drink sufficient amount of water if you are having sore throat.
You can use a cool-mist vaporizer or humidifier to moisten and soothe a dry and painful throat.
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I Have tried to gargle salt water quite a bit but my sore throat continues and its becoming quite bothersome. I have used Spray, cough drops, honey, anything I could get my hands on I tried. Even some weird remedies I read over the internet. Nothing is working I can’t even swallow without it hurting anymore. Sometimes I start to cry and throw fits because it hurts so bad. I don’t know what to do…