If you have a sore throat after having a cold, you should eat a light diet and not eat spicy, stimulating, cold, hot, sweet, salty or hard foods. You can use saline or light salt water to gargle your mouth and throat every day. You can take tablets with mint ingredients, or you can use Chinese herbal sprays to spray your throat, such as Double Throat Wind San, Bing Bor San, Watermelon Cream, etc. Nebulized inhalation treatment such as budesonide nebulizer and ribavirin nebulizer can be used. Targeted anti-pathogen treatment, such as anti-viral can choose to use ribavirin, oseltamivir, and cytarabine. Anti-bacterial can choose to use amoxicillin, azithromycin, clindamycin and other drugs.