Difficulty in swallowing saliva in the throat with some degree of pain is usually considered as an upper respiratory tract disease, commonly caused by acute epiglottitis, acute tonsillitis and peri-tonsillitis or abscess, all of which are caused by bacterial and viral infections of the upper respiratory tract. Treatment is recommended to be based on anti-inflammatory and antiviral medications. Anti-inflammatory drugs can be chosen from cephalosporin antibiotics, penicillin antibiotics or ofloxacin. At the same time with the antiviral drug treatment, antiviral drugs can choose ribavirin or acyclovir and other antiviral drugs treatment. When the disease is acute and severe, it can be treated with a certain amount of hormones, and also need to be combined with oral nebulizer inhalation treatment. Normally, you can spray the throat with an open throat sword to improve the problem of difficulty swallowing saliva. It is usually recommended to gargle saline in the mouth to slow down the symptoms of throat swallowing difficulties.