What should I do if my throat feels like it’s swollen with a foreign object?

If your throat feels blocked by a foreign body as if it is swollen, you need to be treated according to its causes, such as occupying lesions, acute pharyngitis, reflux pharyngitis, etc. After diagnosis, you can choose general treatment, medication or surgical treatment. 1. Occupying disease: epiglottis cyst, esophageal cancer, hypopharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer and other diseases can cause the throat to feel like it is swollen with foreign matter. For treatment, surgery can be chosen to remove the lesion location, meanwhile, pathological examination can be carried out, and if it is malignant tumor, it needs to cooperate with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. 2. Acute pharyngitis: acute attack of pharyngitis can cause pharyngeal mucosal congestion, edema, accompanied by obvious foreign body sensation, so that the patient appeared to have a feeling that the throat is blocked by a foreign body, like a swollen feeling. Treatment can be prescribed the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, such as azithromycin, amoxicillin, while with the compound borax gargle treatment. 3. reflux pharyngitis: reflux pharyngitis due to gastric acid reflux serious, stimulate the esophagus and pharynx, which leads to the throat feels like there is a foreign body blocked like swollen. Treatment can follow the doctor’s instructions to use drugs to inhibit stomach acid, such as omeprazole. The throat feels like a foreign body blocked like swollen, can also be seen in other diseases, after the symptoms of the proposal to go to the hospital in time to improve the examination, to identify the cause of compliance with the doctor’s instructions to take standardized treatment.