Many netizens posted a post saying that their throat started itching inexplicably, and then it was as painful as swallowing a blade. Even the swallowed water hurts. When I went to the hospital, I saw it and diagnosed with acute pharyngitis.
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The throat and throat are actually two parts, and the throat is located at the front of the throat. The two are close to each other, and they often appear together when they are inflamed.
What is pharyngitis?How to relieve your throat?What situation must you seek medical treatment?Today, Teacher Li Yanzhao, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases of Beijing You’an Hospital invited Teacher Li Yanzhao to talk about it in detail.
01
What is pharyngitis?
Angritis is a common throat disease that refers to inflammation reactions that occur in throat mucosa and surrounding lymph tissues.
70% to 80% of pharyngitis is caused by viruses, such as influenza, new coronal virus infection, EB virus infection, and splin bacterial infection.
In addition to the virus, pharyngitis can also be caused by bacteria or dust, smoke and other substances, or allergic rhinitis or sinusitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, etc.
Regardless of the cause, most patients with laryngitis are mainly manifested in dry pharyngeal, itchy, and throat burning.When inflammation invades the throat, cough and hoarseness, sound effort, and even sound of sound loss appear, followed by symptoms such as sore throat and other symptoms, and exacerbate when swallowing.
In addition, sore throat is often accompanied by neck pain or swelling, as well as discomfort such as fever, headache, and fatigue.
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Overall, acute laryngitis generally has mild symptoms in the whole body. It is mainly local symptoms. Most of them can heal within 7 to 10 days.Just go.
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These 6 methods
Can effectively relieve the pain of the throat
Many patients with laryngitis have a serious throat, and they can’t stand the sip of the pharynx. Is there any way to relieve it?
1. Oral painkillers
Oral analgesic drugs are very effective for reducing the pain of acute pharyngitis in adults. Among them, acetaminol and ibuprofen are the most commonly used and have the most safety analgesic drugs.
Drugs usually take effect within 1 to 2 hours. In addition to alleviating symptoms of sore throat, it can also relieve symptoms that may be accompanied by sore throat, such as fever or headache.
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However, when taking medication and relieving pain, you must pay attention to it:
Be sure to take the amount recommended by the instructions.Even if there are multiple symptoms, do not increase it by yourself, especially when children take medicine.
Avoid taking it with other cold medicines, especially compound cold medicine.Many compound cold medicines also contain acetaminol or ibuprofen, which can easily lead to excessive drugs;
For people such as renal dysfunction or liver dysfunction, use it under the guidance of a doctor.
2. Eat some ice
Very cold foods such as ice cubes, frozen popsicles, ice cream, and frozen yogurt have numbness, which can temporarily reduce or relieve swallowing pain.
If your throat is particularly painful, you can try to contain ice cubes or popsicles in your mouth, so that it can last longer.Pay attention to ingesting at room temperature liquid or cold drinks may be invalid, and you must be ice food.
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3. Try to choose to eat warm things
Compared with irritating foods and normal temperature liquids, people with pain are more likely to withstand warm liquid and food, such as warm water, tea, chicken soup, porridge, etc.
Note that it is warm, not hot. Over -hot foods or liquids may burn our throat and exacerbate pain.
4. Eat some foods that moisturize your throat
Honey and hard sugar can also relieve throat pain to a certain extent, especially the mint moisturizing sugar with mint ingredients.
At present, common throat sugar on the market usually contains mint ingredients, with anesthesia. After eating it, it feels cool, which can temporarily forget the pain of the throat.
However, note that this kind of mint sugar under the age of 6 may have a suppressing effect on nerves.
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5. Drink plenty of water
Institutions such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the British National Health Agency (NHS) have suggested that patients with throat pains drink more water and drink plenty of water is beneficial to the recovery of the disease.
Choose room temperature water, cold water, warm water, just avoid overwhelming.
6. Improve air humidity and avoid air pollution
Too dry air and air pollution can exacerbate throat pain. It can improve the environmental humidity through the humidifier, which helps to relieve the symptoms of throat pain.
It should be noted that when using a humidifier, try to choose pure water or boiled cold water, or to choose a humidifier with sterilization function.After each use of a humidifier, clean it according to the manual.
Also pay attention to stay away from second -hand smoke, avoid exposed to tobacco smoke, and prevent smoke stimulation from adding heavy sore throat.
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Severe pharyngitis can endanger life
In these 6 cases, you must seek medical treatment in time
Severe pharyngitis is rare, but it has the risk of airway obstruction, which is seriously life -threatening.Therefore, it is important to learn to identify dangerous signals and seek medical treatment in time.
When the following 6 cases occur, it means that there may be some risks that cause the disease of the throat pain, and you need to seek medical treatment in time:
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references:
[1] UTD: symptomatic treatment of acute pharyngitis
[2] UTD: Evaluation of Adult Acute pharyngitis
[3] UTD: Evaluation of children’s sore throat
Author: Director of the Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, Di’an Hospital of Yue’an Hospital of Beijing
Review: Pan Chunchen’s First Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China; Deputy Chief Physician of Eurva, Throat and throat, throat, throat and throat neck;
Source: Science Popularization China
