Dry and painful nose and throat when breathing may be caused by a dry environment, or due to upper respiratory tract infection, nasopharyngitis and other diseases. Patients can choose the appropriate treatment for different reasons and follow the doctor’s instructions to avoid delaying the condition.
1. Environmental dryness: The patient’s environment is too dry, which can also cause dryness and pain in the nose and throat when breathing. Patients are advised to hydrate and move to a relatively moist environment.
2. Upper respiratory tract infection: this disease is mostly caused by viral infections, which may be accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing and other symptoms. This disease is self-limiting, symptomatic treatment, such as pseudoephedrine to reduce congestion, combined with bacterial infection can be given penicillin, azithromycin and other anti-infective treatment as appropriate.
3. Nasopharyngitis: nasopharyngitis patients will also appear when breathing nose and throat dry and painful, accompanied by foreign body sensation, burning sensation and other symptoms, this disease is mostly to remove the cause of the treatment, such as avoiding exposure to dust, quit smoking. If necessary, saline nasal rinse, compound borax solution gargle, combined with bacterial infection can be prescribed to take amoxicillin, cefuroxime anti-infection treatment.
Patients with dry and painful nose and throat when breathing, should be in a clear cause, actively cooperate with the physician for standardized treatment, not blindly use their own medicine.