What to do if your throat is inflamed

Some common throat diseases are caused by excessive use of the voice or common environmental pollution. For example, throat inflammation, a common respiratory disease, is a relatively common respiratory disease. In daily life, throat inflammation not only affects normal voice, but also has a great impact on many parts of the body. If not treated in time, other types of diseases and some common respiratory inflammations will occur.

Throat inflammation is a symptom of pharyngitis in daily life caused by infection of some viruses and bacteria in the human respiratory tract, which leads to inflammation of some tissues. However, there are many causes of inflammation, mainly caused by excessive smoking and drinking, fatigue, malnutrition and fever.

Treatment of acute pharyngitis (1) Patients with severe infection and obvious systemic symptoms should rest in bed, drink plenty of water and eat a liquid diet. Antiviral drugs and antibiotics or sulfonamides can be used. Traditional Chinese medicine preparations with antiviral and antibacterial effects can also be used.

(2) For patients with mild or no systemic symptoms, local treatment can be used: gargle with compound borax solution, take damifen lozenges, iodine lozenges and silver yellow lozenges orally, 4 to 6 lozenges per day. In addition, you can also use 1%~3% iodine glycerin and 2% silver nitrate to apply the swollen lymph follicles on the posterior pharyngeal wall, which has an anti-inflammatory effect.

(3) Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by exogenous wind-heat, and it is advisable to dispel wind and relieve exterior symptoms, clear away heat and detoxify, use Yinqiao Powder with modifications, and Liushen Pills can be used as an option.

Treatment of chronic pharyngitis (1) Eliminating the cause, quitting smoking and drinking, improving the working and living environment (avoiding dust and harmful gases), actively treating chronic inflammation of the nose and nasopharynx, correcting constipation and indigestion, and treating systemic diseases to enhance resistance are very important for the prevention and treatment of this disease.

(2) Traditional Chinese Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that chronic pharyngitis is caused by Yin deficiency and excessive fire, which disturbs the throat and causes malnutrition. 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 two pieces of Sterculia lychnophora, and use boiling water to brew it instead of tea.

(3) Local therapy ① Chronic simple pharyngitis: gargle with compound borax solution, furazolidone solution, 2% boric acid solution, or take lozenges such as iodine lozenges, mint lozenges, silver and yellow lozenges, and take Liushen Pills and Jinsang Qingyin Pills. ② Chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis: In addition to the above methods, the lymph follicles on the posterior pharyngeal wall also need to be treated. Chemical drugs such as 10% silver nitrate solution can be used to cauterize the hypertrophic lymph follicles, or freezing or laser treatment can be used. However, the treatment area should not be too large or too deep to prevent dryness of the throat and atrophy of the pharyngeal mucosa in the future.

The above are common treatments for sore throat. Don't drink excessively or smoke. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest to protect your body. When your throat is inflamed, you must eat some light food, stay away from spicy and irritating food, start to increase the water in your body, drink more tea, and the mentality of treating pharyngitis is also very important. Maintaining a good mentality will better treat the symptoms of pharyngitis.