Swollen and sore throat has more causes, such as colds, acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, etc. It should be treated according to the cause by taking topical or oral clearing and detoxifying, antiviral and antibiotic drugs.
1. Cold: Early patients with sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose mainly, 2 days later may have a sore throat, hoarseness of the performance. Patients can take cold medicine symptomatic relief of sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose, such as aminophenol xanthanamine, but also can be contained in the silver yellow tablets, grass coral tablets, oral ox-huang detoxification tablets, Pudilan anti-inflammatory oral solution, Shuanghuanglian oral solution and other heat-demolishing and detoxifying drugs to reduce swelling and pain.
2. Acute pharyngitis: antibiotics and hormone nebulization, warm saline gargle; with the use of watermelon cream throat tablets, iodine throat tablets to ease the symptoms of sore throat; according to the type of infection, oral antibiotics or anti-viral anti-infective treatment, such as amoxicillin, acyclovir and so on.
3. Acute tonsillitis: actively use antibiotics anti-infection treatment, such as amoxicillin, cefixime. You can gargle with compound borax gargle; when the sore throat is severe or high fever, you can take oral antipyretic and analgesic drugs, such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen.
In addition, patients should eat a light diet, prohibit spicy food. The above drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor or pharmacist.
There may be other causes of sore throat swelling, such as chronic pharyngitis and peritonsillitis. If the swelling is not relieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor to clarify the cause of the disease and then target treatment.