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In the cold season, many are worried about a sore throat. You can cope with it on your own, but if after two days it does not get better, see your doctor.
January 7 2019
A well-known otorhinolaryngologist (ENT) of the highest category, candidate of medical sciences, hereditary doctor, permanent expert of the rating program “On the Most Important” on channel Russia 1, host of the author’s program “Health of Soul and Body” on the channel “Spas”
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If your throat hurts
The symptom is accompanied by several diseases that cause viral and bacterial infections. Sometimes pain can occur with allergies. If the temperature has risen sharply, you cannot open your mouth wide, edema has developed, it is difficult to swallow and even breathe, it is better not to hesitate and call an ambulance. In other cases, you can try to heal yourself.
There is a tickling sensation
This is pharyngitis – an inflammation of the back of the throat. The throat seems to dry out, it hurts when swallowing, there is a dry cough, pain in the ear, enlarged lymph nodes. People who have to talk a lot at work are often chronic, such as teachers, radio hosts.
It hurts to swallow
The most dangerous condition. Accompanied by a temperature of 38 to 40 degrees. These are signs of tonsillitis. It can also be chronic. Exacerbations often occur during the cold season, when immunity is reduced. Other risk factors are increased fatigue, stay in crowded places. To relieve the condition, take anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics with antipyretic effects. The only way to fight the disease is with the help of antibiotics, so a doctor’s intervention is necessary.
Lost voice
With laryngitis, it changes its tone, becomes hoarse, hoarse, sometimes completely disappears. The disease is characterized by dry, tearing, cough, perspiration and a lump in the throat. Often, in the absence of treatment, it takes on a chronic form, the timbre of the voice changes irrevocably.
First aid
Gargle with a water-based antiseptic to relieve inflammation. You can make a soda solution – a tablespoon of soda in a glass of warm water, add a few drops of iodine. If it gets better, rinse it several times a day. Worse – give up the idea, soda tends to dry out the back wall of the throat. It will soften 3% hydrogen peroxide, more concentrated will burn the nasopharynx and larynx. Draw on 20 ml and rinse for a minute. It will sizzle and taste bitter, so after that you need to rinse your mouth with warm boiled water. Repeat the procedure two to three times a day.
Lozenges and lozenges can help relieve discomfort. Take anti-allergic medications to relieve swelling. In the morning and in the evening, drip oil drops into the nose, drink a glass of warm milk with the addition of butter, the drink has a good enveloping and expectorant effect. Follow a sparing diet, exclude spicy, salty, peppery, bitter, as well as alcohol and citrus fruits from the diet: they irritate the mucous membrane. Talk less, limit physical activity. If possible, stay outside and install a humidifier in your apartment.
Important!
If you are sick, do not eat too cold and hot.
Stop doing active sports.
Avoid going to the bathhouse, sauna, solarium, spa treatments, swimming pool and water park.