What should I do if my throat itches and I keep having dry cough? These treatment principles should be kept in mind

If you have an itchy throat and a dry cough in your life, you should pay more attention to it. If you don't treat it for a long time, it may affect the health of your respiratory system. If you have the habit of quitting smoking or staying up late, it is recommended that you take more rest and recuperate, and then use diet therapy for treatment.

Treatment principles;

1. Eliminate various pathogenic factors and enhance physical fitness, including quitting smoking and drinking, improving the working environment, and actively treating chronic inflammation of the nose and nasopharynx.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that chronic pharyngitis is caused by yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, which causes the throat to be malnourished due to the upward disturbance of virtual fire. The treatment should be to nourish yin and reduce fire, with Zengye Decoction added or subtracted. You can also use appropriate amounts of double flower and Ophiopogon japonicus, add 2 pieces of Sterculia lychnophora, and brew it with boiling water instead of tea.

3. Local therapy: (1) Simple pharyngitis: Frequent gargling with compound borax solution, furacillin solution, 2% boric acid solution, etc., or taking iodine throat lozenges, mint throat lozenges, Liushen pills, etc., can alleviate symptoms. (2) Hypertrophic pharyngitis: In addition to the above-mentioned treatments, drugs (silver nitrate) or electrocoagulation can be used to burn the proliferating lymph follicles, but the burning range should not be too wide. Cryotherapy and laser treatment are also available.