Eating burned throat needs to be treated with medication, surgery and supportive therapy depending on the degree of burn to improve throat and general discomfort.
When the throat lesion is only red and not eroded, generally no local medication is needed, and the symptoms can be gradually relieved within a few hours. If there are blisters or erosion, then local application of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs, such as furacilin gargle gargle. The first 1 ~ 2 days of pain is more serious, the local can be 1% ~ 2% lidocaine liquid gargle pain. If there is no secondary infection, it can be cured in about one week.
Clinically, according to the degree of combined lower respiratory tract injury will be divided into light, medium and heavy laryngeal burns, in order to help determine the injury and guide the treatment.
1. Light type: If the injury is only above the vocal folds, the patient may have hoarseness and sore throat, accompanied by sore throat, dysphagia, and congestion of the pharyngeal mucosa. The main use of anti-infection, reduce or eliminate mucosal swelling. Such as cleaning the mouth, removing oral and pharyngeal secretions, nebulized inhalation glucocorticoids, such as budesonide, systemic antibiotics, such as amoxicillin.
2. Medium-sized injury: above the level of tracheal ridge, at this time, in addition to the clinical manifestations of the light type there are irritating cough, shortness of breath. Early tracheal intubation or tracheotomy is needed.
3. Heavy injury: has reached the bronchial tubes, alveoli, in addition to medium-sized clinical manifestations, clinically severe cough, pus and blood sputum. To systemic high-dose antibiotics, strengthen the care after tracheotomy, timely control of lung infection and pulmonary edema, anti-shock, maintain water-electrolyte balance, to protect the function of the main organs of the body.
When eating burns the throat need to actively seek medical treatment.