Many friends with pharyngitis carry throat lozenges all year round, and some even take them as candy. Is this practice desirable?
Pharyngitis is usually divided into acute pharyngitis and chronic pharyngitis. When acute pharyngitis, in addition to sore throat, there can also be fever, chills, headache, body aches, poor appetite, dry stools, dry mouth and thirst and other systemic toxic reactions. If the infection continues to spread upward, it can spread to the ear and nose, leading to acute rhinitis, sinusitis, acute otitis media; downward development, it can invade the lower respiratory tract such as the larynx and trachea, causing acute laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; if the pathogenic bacteria and toxins invade the blood circulation, it can cause systemic complications, such as acute nephritis, sepsis, rheumatism, etc. The body is very dangerous.
But pharyngitis is a chronic disease, medication or injection can not be cured, so many people use to eat throat lozenges to prevent pharyngitis and relieve pain symptoms. Some people even take throat tablets as candy to eat more undesirable. The reason is that throat tablets have the role of shrinking the oral mucosa blood vessels, reduce inflammation edema and pain, but in the oral cavity without inflammation often take but will make due to mucosal vasoconstriction, dry mucosa broken, leading to the occurrence of oral ulcers. Therefore, pharyngitis tablets should not be taken often.
The following are the specific adverse effects of taking them all year round.
1, aggravate inflammation
Chinese medicine throat lozenges are based on Chinese medicine, such as watermelon cream throat lozenges, golden voice throat, compound grass coral tablets, etc., mainly by stimulating the mucous membrane to achieve the “thirst-quenching” effect. However, they are not suitable for viral laryngitis, because the virus itself will stimulate the local mucous membrane secretion, causing symptoms such as runny nose and cough, and the use of herbal lozenges for viral laryngitis will only aggravate these symptoms, which will not only allow harmful bacteria to take advantage of the situation, but also allow bacteria that are not pathogenic to take advantage of the opportunity to make waves and cause co-infection.
2, induce ulcers
Western medicine component of the lozenges, the main component is iodine or quaternary ammonium surfactants, such as Huasu tablets, such drugs contain iodine molecules, although the activity is large, strong bactericidal power, but the irritation of the oral mucosa is also very large, long-term use will inhibit the normal growth of oral and pharyngeal internal flora, disturbing the oral environment, resulting in local dysbiosis, thereby inducing the occurrence of diseases such as oral ulcers.
3. Causes allergy
If people who are allergic to iodine take lozenges containing iodine, they will have an allergic reaction, which may be characterized by shortness of breath, pale face, blue lips, and cold and wet body. Iodine containing lozenges for breastfeeding women may affect the growth and development of young children.
4. Causes diarrhea
Lozenges containing ice chips often work together with musk, etc., which itself has the effect of clearing heat and laxative, and long-term use by people with a cold spleen and stomach is very likely to cause diarrhea. Such as watermelon cream lozenges, Golden Voice Throat, compound grass coral tablets, Jianmin Throat Tablets, etc., should be used with extra caution by patients with a cold spleen and stomach.
So, how can we fundamentally reduce the occurrence of pharyngitis? I think the following issues should be carefully noted in life.
1, living habits
With the development of society, people’s pace of life continues to accelerate, but also affects the change in people’s habits, so that daily life without certain rules, as chronic pharyngitis patients should try to do: regular living and living, can not often stay up late, driving at night, because often stay up late will break the original routine, so that the endocrine system disorders, disorders of the internal organs, the digestive function of the gastrointestinal lower. If it is necessary to work, it is necessary to maintain sufficient sleep every day, diet to make appropriate adjustments; keep the oral cavity clean at all times, to do morning and evening brush teeth, meal after the mouth, usually drink more water (especially when staying up late), some oral inflammation to timely treatment; winter or the alternating cold and warm season, pay attention to warmth (especially some young women do not too beautiful ” (freezing” people).
2.Eating habits
To firmly abandon some bad eating habits, quit smoking, quit drinking. Do not eat irritating food, less fried, pickled food, puffed food; eat more fresh fruits, vegetables, eat more vitamin-rich fruits, such as: kiwi, apples, pears, strawberries, figs, etc., especially watermelon clear heat, throat, thirst is a good fruit.
3.Environmental factors
With the development of industrialization, people’s production and living environment has changed dramatically, optimizing people’s quality of life while also bringing a great negative impact on their own health status. For patients with chronic pharyngitis: do not stay in the air-conditioned room for a long time, to maintain more than half an hour of ventilation time every day; for the new home soon after decoration, try to postpone the move-in time, while maintaining maximum daily ventilation to reduce the content of chemical gases in the new home; to try to avoid working in an environment with chemical gases or dust content, do a good job of self-protection in this regard.
4.Exercise
Regularly participate in some suitable sports for their own to enhance physical fitness, improve the ability to resist disease is very helpful. According to the individual physique can choose to walk, jogging, ball games, swimming, etc.. But pay attention to keep warm in time after exercise to avoid catching cold.