Treatment of throat with tea
Tea is one of the most effective ways to relieve a sore throat. Warm liquid speeds up metabolism and helps quickly remove pathogenic bacteria from the body, and the tea ingredients contain beneficial substances.
How to quickly cure a throat with tea? To make tea, use chamomile or sage, rose hips or sea buckthorn, mint, lemon or calendula. These ingredients have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and softening properties. They help destroy bacteria on the mucous membrane of the throat, restore its integrity, relieve swelling and relieve pain.
Chamomile tea for throat: Pixabay
To prepare medicinal chamomile tea, take two tablespoons of dried chamomile, pour boiling water over it and let steep for 10–15 minutes. After this, you can add honey and lemon to the drink.
To relieve a sore throat, drink peppermint tea. It contains menthol, which has a mild anesthetic effect. This allows you to quickly relieve pain and soothe the mucous membrane. Mint can be added to any tea.
Ginger tea will help with an itchy throat. To prepare the drink, put black or green tea in a teapot, add a slice of fresh ginger root and pour boiling water. Let it brew for 15 minutes.
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The same sore throat can give very serious complications that can affect the condition of the entire body.
How to properly treat a sore throat? When should you agree to have your tonsils removed? Why does your throat become dry? Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ear, Throat, and Nose Diseases of BSMU Andrey Sakovich answered these and other questions on the Komsomolskaya Pravda direct line .
*** — Andrey Renardovich, two adopted daughters have been suffering from chronic tonsillitis for about three years. How to treat it?
— Did they undergo examinations?
“They are constantly monitored by an ENT specialist, and we carry out all his appointments.
— Was the result positive?
- For a very short time. And now summer has begun, and they keep getting traffic jams, we have already learned and are squeezing them out ourselves. And if you don’t squeeze it out, the disease drags on.
- You shouldn’t squeeze it out, as you will further injure the tonsils. But if children do not have complications in the kidneys, heart, or joints, then their disease is subject to more conservative treatment. But you need to select medications and consult a doctor. If there are complications, tonsillectomy may be considered. But for this you need to conduct a more detailed examination - blood and urine tests, ECG, smears, antistreptolysin.
— One girl sometimes has pain in her legs and knees.
- Especially. If such problems occur, tonsil removal may be considered. Otherwise, there may be big health problems in the future.
Andrey Sakovich
- I am 63 years old. At the age of 30, my tonsils were removed after frequent purulent sore throats. Time passed, and I began to have chronic pharyngolaryngitis. Can they cause joint diseases now?
— Usually pharyngitis does not have a direct strong connection with articular pathology. Tonsillitis - yes. But your tonsils were removed. After removal of tonsils, pharyngitis does occur, but we are talking about the fact that you need to choose the lesser of two evils. You can use oil drops or emollient sprays, for example, based on Irish seaweed. Either absorbable tablets or sprays with antiseptics for exacerbations.
CHRONIC TONSILLITIS IS DANGEROUS WITH COMPLICATIONS
— My son is 30 years old. He has chronic tonsillitis, but he doesn’t even go to the doctor’s clinic anymore, although his disease worsens ten times a year. And my heart is already aching. I heard that they are performing an operation using a laser to excise tonsils.
— Tonsillitis requires examination in terms of the condition of the internal organs. It is necessary to do both an electrocardiogram and an ultrasound of the heart, if possible. Of course, take blood tests, urine tests and biochemical tests - antistreptolysin, rheumatoid factor and c-reactive protein. It is advisable to do a smear. Then you can make some decision. As for the laser: I don’t see any particular advantages over traditional surgery. In general, there are different methods for removing tonsils. Until examinations are done, he should be treated conservatively.
- Yes, he’s been gargling this all his life!
— If conservative treatment does not produce results, changes are detected in the tests, it makes sense to think about removal. Unfortunately, tonsils, as a source of infection, cause complications in the heart, kidneys and joints - the three main “target organs”.
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— I often get ulcers in my throat, then it starts to hurt. I rinse with calendula or soda solution. Passes. But after a few months they appear again.
-Have you gone to the doctor?
- Yes, they say laryngitis.
- What do they say about ulcers?
- They didn’t say anything.
— Do you feel sick, do you have cold symptoms during this period?
- Yes, although there is no temperature.
— Do you have cracks in your mouth or tongue? Do you suffer from diabetes?
— No, but my thyroid gland has been removed and I take hormonal medications.
— In such situations, you can additionally try taking medications with lysozyme. You may be lacking this enzyme in your saliva.
— My son is 16 years old. And every year from September to May, almost every month he has a sore throat. Diagnoses are different - either laryngitis or pharyngitis.
— But he wasn’t diagnosed with chronic tonsillitis?
- No.
— 16 years old is the age when in adolescents the body “cannot keep up” with growth. The throat is simply the place where the infection gets most often. You need to consult not so much with an ENT specialist, but with a pediatrician. Discuss immunoprophylaxis during the off-season.
— Is there a danger of such frequent throat problems?
— Theoretically, there is always a danger. Each cold is a certain burden on the body, especially a growing one. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of the condition of the body as a whole.
DRY THROAT COULD BE A SIGN OF DIABETES
— What to do if your throat is dry? I have chronic tonsillitis.
— Don’t you suffer from diabetes? After all, dryness often occurs with diabetes.
- No, everything is okay.
— Most likely, you need not only anti-inflammatory drugs, but inhalations with slightly alkaline mineral waters. Preparations with an antiseptic effect can also be used, these can be aerosol forms, for example, with silver nanocolloid, Irish algae, propolis. Or absorbable tablets with the same propolis and herbs. Try it and see which drug suits you best.
Spray for the throat
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— I am 70 years old and have been suffering from a dry throat for almost a month. How can we help?
- If you don't have diabetes...
- No.
- ... then this may be due to your age. The mucous membranes themselves become somewhat drier. In such a situation, it is enough to instill ordinary oil - olive, sunflower, an oil solution of vitamin A. You just need to drip through the nose, suck it in so that it flows onto the back wall of the throat. And then do not drink or eat for 20-30 minutes, so that the oil film remains on the mucous membrane.
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“I recently got sick, my throat was sore, but after the treatment prescribed by the doctor, everything went away. And now I have a dry cough and I feel dryness in my throat.
— Is there a temperature, sputum?
- There is no temperature or sputum.
- To find the cause of the cough, of course, a general practitioner should listen to you. If necessary, take a chest x-ray and blood test. This is how bronchitis can sometimes occur. And to ease the condition of the throat, you can gargle and inhale. There are dissolving tablets, aerosols with herbs, based on Irish algae. They have an enveloping and antiseptic effect. But the main thing is to consult a therapist to find out if you have a process in the bronchi and lungs.
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“I can’t sleep at night because of my dry throat.” I wake up and immediately have a cough.
— Do you suffer from diabetes and how old are you?
— I’m 60 years old, I’ve never had diabetes, but now I donated blood after a sore throat, my sugar level was 6.6.
- Diabetes often causes a dry throat. I always recommend checking your blood sugar several times, especially if the level is slightly higher than the upper limit. Your condition may require monitoring and treatment by an endocrinologist. One more clarification: do you suffer from osteochondrosis of the spine?
- I suffer a lot, in the cervical region.
— Perhaps osteochondrosis “tightens” in the upper cervical region, and this can cause dryness in the throat. In this case, it will be good for you to instill oil drops through your nose. 2 - 3 drops - and suck in so that the oil flows down the back wall of the throat, you should feel the taste of the oil in your mouth. It will soften your throat and relieve the condition.
— The ENT told me to use vitamins A and E in the morning and evening.
— It’s better to alternate them. Both are oil-based vitamins; they will soften and nourish the mucous membrane of the pharynx.
— My throat gets dry, even if I get tired while working. Until I take a sip of water, I can’t even breathe.
— There are preparations with an enveloping effect based on Irish algae extract that work well for such symptoms. You can also use homeopathic remedies. But first of all, you need to deal with your sugar. If this is the onset of diabetes, then you need to see a specialist as soon as possible. Komsomolskaya Pravda , June 6, 2016
Gargling treatment for throat
Rinsing is an effective way to combat bacterial and viral diseases. Depending on what components are included in the rinse, it has an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
How to quickly cure a throat by gargling? To do this, you need to select the appropriate ingredients and adhere to the treatment regimen. You can gargle with a solution containing salt, soda, iodine, honey, propolis and other ingredients. Each of them has special properties and helps get rid of pain, itching, and wheezing.
The simplest and most popular option is saline rinsing. To do this, heat 250 ml of water and stir half a teaspoon of salt in it. On the first day, gargle every hour, then reduce the number of gargles to 3-4 per day.
Salt is used for gargling: Pixabay
Salt acts as an antiseptic, relieves swelling and pain, but can lead to dry mucous membranes, so this option is not used for dry coughs. As Chris S. Anderson explains, salt acts as a magnet for water and draws a lot of fluid from the tissues in the throat area.
For respiratory diseases, a solution with salt, iodine and soda is often used to rinse. To prepare it you will need 250 ml of hot water, a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of soda and 1-2 drops of iodine. Gargle with this solution 3-5 times a day until the pain goes away. Iodine enhances the antiseptic effect of salt, but if you have thyroid problems, do not use it without consulting your doctor.
To prepare a solution of honey with propolis, you first need to make an aqueous extract of propolis, since it does not dissolve in water. Take 100 grams of propolis and add a liter of warm water (50 °C). Let it brew for 24 hours, then strain and add 3-4 tablespoons of honey. Stir and rinse 3-5 times daily. Propolis effectively destroys bacteria and viruses and accelerates the restoration of damaged tissues. Honey softens the throat, eliminates pain and strengthens the immune system.
Causes of sore throat
All causes of a sore throat can be divided into two large groups:
- infectious:
these include, among others, various colds of the upper respiratory tract, for example, pharyngitis (inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa) and laryngitis (inflammation of the larynx mucosa). They can develop against the background of viral, bacterial and fungal infections. In addition to a sore throat, such diseases are accompanied by fever, symptoms of intoxication (headache, weakness, loss of appetite), runny nose, dry or wet cough; - non-infectious:
in this case, tickling may be due to:
- allergic reactions - to dust, plant pollen, particles of epidermis and animal hair, to food and drinks;
- excessive load on the vocal cords - among teachers, singers, actors;
- inhalation of substances with an irritating effect (tobacco smoke, hot, cold and dusty air, industrial and chemical dust);
- neurotic reactions;
- injuries to the pharynx and foreign bodies (fish bone, food particles stuck to the mucous membranes, small parts of toys in children). allergic reactions - to dust, plant pollen, particles of epidermis and animal hair, to food and drinks;
- excessive load on the vocal cords - among teachers, singers, actors;
- inhalation of substances with an irritating effect (tobacco smoke, hot, cold and dusty air, industrial and chemical dust);
- neurotic reactions;
- injuries to the pharynx and foreign bodies (fish bone, food particles stuck to the mucous membranes, small parts of toys in children).
Throat treatment with inhalations
When inhaled, beneficial substances enter the body with steam or gas. In medicine, inhalations with drugs are used, and at home, essential oils, mineral water, salt, and soda are used for this.
How to quickly cure a throat with inhalations? At home, you can use inhalers and a nebulizer. If you don’t have special equipment, you can breathe steam over a saucepan or kettle.
Throat treatment with inhalations: Pixabay
At home, you can prepare inhalation with eucalyptus, clove, and tea tree oil. To do this, you need to boil water and add a few drops of essential oil to it. Then sit over a saucepan or kettle, without touching the heated surfaces, cover your head with a towel and take a deep breath. Continue the procedure until the water cools down. Essential oils have an antiseptic effect, soften the throat and make breathing easier.
You can also boil mineral water or make a solution with soda. To do this, you will need still water and 1 teaspoon of soda per liter.
Treatment of sore throat
Self-medication can be dangerous. You cannot buy antibiotics that were previously prescribed at the pharmacy yourself. Only an ENT doctor prescribes the necessary medications.
If the temperature rises above 38.5° and continues for more than a day, consultation with an otolaryngologist is necessary . If you have a severe runny nose or joint pain, you should seek medical help.
Good to know:
- Different types of sore throat require different treatments. For the viral form, it is enough to take painkillers; For bacterial infections, antibiotics are needed.
- If the temperature is high for more than 24 hours, medical consultation is necessary.
