What to do if you have a dry and itchy throat and cough

  Dry throat and cough are usually caused by acute and chronic laryngitis, influenza, allergic pharyngitis, acid reflux and other diseases.  Treatment of dry throat and itchy cough should first pay attention to lifestyle habits, a light diet, quit smoking, and quit drinking. You can take some fat sea or chrysanthemum tea. If the throat is dry and itchy, not accompanied by obvious coughing phlegm, consider pharyngitis, you can take some drugs to clear the heat and lower the fire, such as Pu Di Lan oral liquid, throat clearing and pharyngeal granules, or take some fat sea and honeysuckle chrysanthemum tea to drink. If the throat is itchy, accompanied by coughing and coughing phlegm, and it is pus phlegm, we should consider acute pharyngitis or even bronchitis or pneumonia, and we may need to add some antibiotics and some cough syrup. If the itchy throat is obvious and prolonged, you should consider airway hyperresponsiveness or allergic pharyngitis, you may need to add some anti-allergic drugs, and at the same time, you should pay attention to avoid contact with some spicy and stimulating diet and avoid drinking alcohol. In addition, we need to pay attention to the dry throat, whether it is accompanied by rhinitis, if there is rhinitis should be treated at the same time.  Therefore, if you have a dry throat and cough, you should go to the ENT department of a regular hospital in a timely manner, and after a clear diagnosis, actively treat the symptoms with anti-infective and anti-allergic treatment. In addition, we should pay attention to exclude bronchitis, pneumonia, allergic pharyngitis and other diseases.