Tips for sore throat
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Pain when swallowing, hoarseness, a stinging sensation, a swollen throat: sore throat can have unpleasant side effects. It can be the result of dry air or overloading your voice, but also a starting cold. Fortunately, there are remedies to reduce your complaints.
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Sore throat usually resolves itself within a week. You generally don't have to take it to the doctor. But you can suffer from it. The pain can spread to your ears and the glands in your neck can swell and become sensitive. Usually a sore throat is caused by a cold virus. In that case, you are also sneezing and coughing, you have a mild fever and your nose is blocked. Antibiotics are then useless. This only works to fight a bacterial infection in the throat.
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Those bacteria are called streptococci. A strep throat infection is also called angina. You may then see white patches in your throat and on your tonsils. But even without an infection you can suffer from your throat. For example, when you have forced your voice by talking or yelling incorrectly or too much. Breathing in dry (winter) air or smoke can also cause complaints. Sometimes you are hoarse.
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Self-care
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You may now know what caused your sore throat, but it's okay anyway. What now? There are plenty of home remedies you can try to ease the irritation. They have not been proven to really work, but many people find that they relieve the symptoms. You can try the following: Eat popsicles or drink cold water. Gargle with a saline solution or special gargles. Suck on a licorice or special lozenges. Drink (chamomile) tea with honey. Avoid smoke and talk less: don't whisper, it's worse for your voice than talking
Medical treatment
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If nothing helps, you can resort to medicine. The pain can usually be relieved with paracetamol or another pain reliever that you take orally. If that is difficult due to swallowing problems, you can also consider a suppository. Antibiotics are actually rarely prescribed, because a cold virus does not care. A bacterial infection also takes the same time with antibiotics, but the drugs prevent you from infecting others and the inflammation spreads in your body. Only when there are serious swallowing and throat complaints and you feel very ill, the doctor may consider giving you a cure. Therefore, go to the doctor if you often suffer from a throat infection or if it persists for a long time and the complaints get worse. A