Sore throat when swallowing saliva is common acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, acute epiglottitis and other diseases; generally choose antibiotics to fight infection, and antiviral drugs, glucocorticosteroid treatment. 1. Acute tonsillitis: can cause a sore throat when swallowing saliva. Treatment is mainly based on anti-inflammatory, penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, cefuroxime and other drugs as prescribed by the doctor, while with the compound borax gargle, furacilin liquid gargle. 2. Acute pharyngitis: acute inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosal tissue and its lymphatic tissue. Pharyngeal pain is obvious. First of all, you need to drink a lot of water and eat fluids, choose antiviral drugs and antibiotics and Chinese medicinal preparations with antiviral and antibacterial effects, such as ribavirin, amoxicillin and other drugs; compound borax gargle, furacillin gargle solution for gargling; iodine tablets and silver and yellow tablets containing. 3. Acute epiglottitis: acute non-specific inflammation of the laryngeal mucosa in the supraglottic area mainly in the epiglottis. The throat is painful and is aggravated by swallowing. Treatment requires adequate use of powerful antibiotics and hormones, preferred cephalosporins or amoxicillin clavulanate potassium; anaerobic infections can be added with metronidazole, dexamethasone intramuscular or intravenous; local nebulizer treatment, such as gentamicin, dexamethasone, and so on. The cause of the sore throat is different, the treatment is also different, after the symptoms suggest that the patient timely medical treatment, follow the doctor’s instructions to use medication, not to use drugs, so as not to lead to adverse consequences.