What is chronic pharyngitis?

  Chronic pharyngitis is a diffuse inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosa, and lymphatic tissue, often as part of a chronic inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. The disease is usually long and persistent.  It is caused by: (1) recurrent episodes of acute pharyngitis becoming chronic.  (2) suffering from various nasal diseases, long-term open-mouth breathing and nasal flow, often stimulating the pharynx, or the impact of chronic tonsillitis, dental caries, etc.  (3) Long-term excessive smoking and drinking, or stimulated by dust and harmful gases, can cause this disease.  (4) Various chronic diseases, such as anemia, constipation, cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammation of the lower respiratory tract, etc. caused by stasis changes, can be secondary to this disease.  The typical symptoms of chronic pharyngitis are: foreign body sensation in the pharynx, itching and pain, dryness and burning, etc. There are often thick secretions attached to the back wall of the pharynx that cannot be easily removed, especially at night, “uttering”, and the desire to remove them. The secretion can cause irritating cough, or even nausea and vomiting. If you see diffuse congestion of the mucous membrane of the pharynx, dark red, with a small amount of mucous secretions, it is chronic simple pharyngitis. The symptoms of chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis can be seen as mucosal thickening, diffuse congestion, or thickening of the palatal arch and soft palate margins, and lymphatic follicles with numerous granular protrusions on the posterior pharyngeal wall.  Chronic pharyngitis is a chronic inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosa and its lymphatic tissue. Chronic pharyngitis generally does not require antibiotic treatment, because chronic pharyngitis is not a bacterial infection, chronic pharyngitis abuse of indiscriminate antibiotics harmful but not beneficial. It can lead to dysbiosis of the normal flora of the pharynx and cause a secondary infection. In addition, every antibiotic has systemic side effects. Abuse of antibiotics can be harmful to the human body. Also, misuse of antibiotics can cause bacterial resistance.  The treatment of chronic pharyngitis is mainly for the cause, such as smoking and alcohol, active treatment of acute pharyngitis and chronic inflammation of the nasal cavity, sinuses, tonsils patients with dry throat, sore throat can use some tablets, such as Huasu tablets, grass coral tablets, silver tablets, Tylenol tablets, watermelon cream tablets; can also use a variety of Chinese medicine, such as Wan Ying capsule, clear throat particles, a clear capsule, ten flavor gentian flower particles. If you have chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis, dry pharynx, pharyngeal foreign body sensation is obvious, can be treated with split laser, freezing or electrocautery.  Chronic pharyngitis prevention and conditioning 1, keep the indoor air moist and clean, do not smoke indoors, do not put irritating odor items indoors. Families with heating stoves, place a basin of water on the stove to improve the dry environment.  2.Eat less fried and irritating food.  3, quit smoking, many patients are not determined to quit smoking, so that the effect of medication is very poor, so patients with chronic pharyngitis must quit smoking.  4, avoid talking too much, pay attention to rest.  5, drink more water, pay attention to rest, keep a relaxed mood.  6, strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, prevent respiratory tract infections.