Reflux pharyngitis symptoms

We also call reflux pharyngitis pharyngeal reflux. The occurrence of reflux pharyngitis brings serious harm to the patient's body. Reflux pharyngitis can be easily confused with other pharyngitis. Therefore, we often encounter various problems in the treatment of reflux pharyngitis. We should pay attention to it. So how do we prevent and treat reflux pharyngitis?

We need to know more about the symptoms of reflux pharyngitis. Once the symptoms of reflux pharyngitis appear, we must carefully identify them, so that we can treat and prevent reflux pharyngitis.

Reflux pharyngitis, also known as laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), is a disease that has only been widely recognized by otolaryngologists in recent years. In fact, it is very common in clinical work. However, due to people's lack of understanding in the past, the disease was misdiagnosed as common chronic pharyngitis for a long time. Instead of treating the cause, antibiotics and other drugs were used, resulting in no obvious relief of symptoms, which troubled many patients for a long time and seriously reduced the patients' quality of life. In recent years, as otolaryngologists have gradually deepened their understanding of laryngopharyngeal reflux, they have found that the incidence of laryngopharyngeal reflux in the population is very high, accounting for 10% of all patients visiting otolaryngology clinics and 50% of patients with hoarseness.

As the name suggests, laryngopharyngeal reflux is caused by the reflux of gastric contents into the pharynx, which irritates and damages the pharyngeal mucosa and causes corresponding symptoms. This concept was proposed as people's understanding of gastroesophageal reflux gradually deepened. Although laryngopharyngeal reflux often coexists with gastroesophageal reflux, it is still tended to be believed that laryngopharyngeal reflux and gastroesophageal reflux are two interrelated but different diseases.

1. Foreign body sensation or globus sensation in the throat;

2. Hoarseness and difficulty in pronunciation;

3. Chronic cough: mostly irritating dry cough;

There are also symptoms such as throat clearing, sore throat, difficulty breathing, bad breath, increased viscous secretions in the throat, and dry throat, among which the first three are considered particularly common.

In the above article, we introduced what reflux pharyngitis is. We know that the occurrence of reflux pharyngitis brings serious harm to the patient's body, and reflux pharyngitis is easily confused with other diseases, so we must know how to identify reflux pharyngitis. The above article introduces the symptoms of reflux pharyngitis in detail.