With the continuous development of China’s urbanization, people’s living habits and environment have changed a lot, in addition to the convenience of modern life, air pollution, fast-paced life also led to a number of diseases followed. Among them, chronic pharyngitis as a common chronic disease, deservedly become one of the culprits endangering people’s quality of life.
Although chronic pharyngitis is very common in life, but most patients just learned from otolaryngologists that they suffer from “pharyngitis”, or “chronic”, often very worried about whether chronic pharyngitis is serious and there is no “cure”. The most important concern is whether chronic pharyngitis is serious and whether there is a “cure” for it.
How to cure pharyngitis? The first thing is to find out what it is and why. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for many years, so if you don’t even understand the essential features of your opponent, you can’t even talk about the root cause. The actual fact is that you will be able to find out how chronic pharyngitis is formed and find the cause of your own illness to facilitate dialectical treatment.
Itching, pain, mucous phlegm, foreign body sensation in the throat, swelling, tightness and unexplainable discomfort.
Common causes are the following.
1, recurrent episodes of acute pharyngitis leading to chronic inflammatory changes in the mucosa.
2, inflammation of adjacent organs to the pharynx, such as chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, periodontitis, etc.
3, smoking, drinking alcohol or long-term contact with dust, oil smoke, radiation, chemical gases, etc.
4.Some occupations that use too much sound and lead to frequent exposure of the pharyngeal cavity to the outside world: such as salespeople, teachers, actors, etc.
5, snoring or nasal congestion often causes open-mouth breathing, resulting in a dry throat or pharyngeal mucosa susceptible to irritation.
6, chronic gastritis, reflux esophagitis long-term acid reflux leads to gastric juices continue to stimulate the mucous membrane of the pharynx.
7, fatigue or systemic diseases that tend to cause low immunity of the pharyngeal mucosa: such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, peptic ulcer, etc.
8, physical weakness, aging leads to pharyngeal mucosal glands atrophy, secretion reduction triggered by discomfort.
After understanding the basic pathological process and common causes of chronic pharyngitis, it is not difficult to understand why chronic pharyngitis mucous membrane of the throat is prone to congestion, and even grow many small red “blood bubbles” the size of green beans, which are actually chronic inflammatory stimulation led to the proliferation of lymphoid tissue, medically known as “lymphoid follicles This is actually a proliferation of lymphatic tissue caused by chronic inflammation, medically called “lymphatic follicles. To use an analogy, this is like a callus on the hand, if you often work with your hands to do (external stimulation), the callus will become thicker and difficult to disappear. And these pharyngeal mucosa “calluses”, congestion and the release of inflammatory mediators, will also make the mucosa become sensitive, dry, itchy, painful and other discomforts too.
Finally, back to the subject of the article, how should chronic pharyngitis be treated? Can it be cured? In fact, if we understand the causes, we will find that most of the common causes of chronic pharyngitis, such as smoking and drinking habits, air pollution in big cities, specific occupations, and chronic diseases and personal immunity status, etc., cannot be changed overnight, so “cure” is a Therefore, “cure” is a difficult goal to achieve.
Fortunately, according to current clinical observations, chronic pharyngitis rarely causes malignant changes, and the most common harm is the discomfort caused by recurrent episodes. The most important thing is to find the best way to improve your condition and prepare for a complete cure.
The same applies to the eradication of the cause of the disease in order to receive better results, the treatment of chronic pharyngitis is still the main prevention and maintenance, drugs and other treatments to supplement, after all, no re-occurrence is strictly speaking “cure”.
This requires us to grasp the following points in the process of its treatment.
1, try to avoid fatigue, cold, cold, reduce the number of acute attacks, so as to avoid repeated inflammation. Especially in summer, excessive blowing fans and air conditioning are common factors that trigger acute pharyngitis.
2, reduce tobacco and alcohol, spicy, acidic cold and other adverse stimuli, some patients may feel more comfortable eating cold food, but after the pharyngitis will be more difficult to recover.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The chronic infection of the oral cavity, nasal cavity and sinuses often leads to pharyngitis due to viruses, bacteria, pus and other waves of mucous membrane in the pharynx. Therefore, usually pay attention to keep the mouth clean, timely treatment of periodontal and nasal diseases.
4, usually drink more water, you can sip several times in small mouths, moisten the pharyngeal mucosa. Especially teachers, salespeople and other long-term excessive voice occupational personnel, of course, try to pay attention to intermittent voice rest, reduce loud shouting.
5, regular life, work and rest, balanced diet, moderate exercise, maintain a strong body, improve the body’s immunity.
6, timely treatment of stomach acid reflux, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other co-morbidities, to reduce the continuous stimulation of chronic pharyngitis.
7, pharyngitis recurrent episodes for more than 3 months need to go to the regular hospital otolaryngology careful examination, if necessary, can do electronic laryngoscopy, to prevent the omission of other difficult diseases such as pharyngeal tumors.
8, usually pharyngitis discomfort can be applied to proprietary Chinese medicine treatment (punch or capsules, tablets, drops, etc.), when accompanied by significant pain or fever and other acute symptoms can be appropriate use of antibiotics. The routine use of antibiotics for chronic pharyngitis is not encouraged, in addition to the common side effects of antibiotics, which may also cause bacterial resistance or fungal infections.
9, symptoms a little better try to hold back not to cough clear throat, this is a chronic pharyngitis patients habitual action, clear throat will be more comfortable, but a very bad habit, the chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane will be subject to continuous stimulation and tossing and turning.
A brief guide to chronic pharyngitis treatment and medication
Chronic pharyngitis is only a superficial phenomenon, we can only cure chronic pharyngitis by finding out the real root cause of chronic pharyngitis and treating both the symptoms and the root cause.
Chronic pharyngitis is caused by three main aspects.
One, nasal nasal flow after the stimulation of the pharynx.
two, the pharynx itself by external stimuli, such as colds, irritating diet, etc..
Third, acid reflux type, this may be the main cause of chronic pharyngitis.
This one cause may be more insidious, and so many patients of this type often have no symptoms of stomach discomfort. Currently the main treatment drug is the use of lansoprazole or omeprazole, which is recommended for 6-8 weeks of continuous use, and some suspected cases even without obvious reflux symptoms can be treated on a trial basis. In addition, no food for 2 hours before bedtime, head of bed elevated or high pillow with shoulder pad, etc. It is believed that with active treatment and psychological relief all will obtain satisfactory results.
The above is the treatment of the root cause, and the treatment of the symptoms is mainly based on proprietary Chinese medicine, including throat clearing and pharyngeal pellets, pharyngitis tablets, golden voice and pharyngeal pill and other proprietary Chinese medicine, which is recommended to be treated for more than one month. You can also contain throat tablets for symptomatic treatment.