Drinking salt water for throat inflammation usually does not help, but you can usually gargle with light salt water. If the throat inflammation is an acute infection, the patient has a fever, general malaise, severe pain in the throat, this situation should not only gargle with light salt water, but also take oral antibiotics, cephalosporin or azithromycin, and at the same time with the use of antipyretic drugs, and tablets. If it is chronic laryngitis gargle with light salt water, long-term gargling is beneficial, if there are tablets can also be used, but avoid spicy, irritating food. Also, if you have chronic laryngitis aggravated, you should also use heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs for treatment, and if the effect of chronic laryngitis treatment is not obvious, you should go to the hospital.