What does pharyngitis feel like

Throat diseases are very common in our lives, and most pharyngitis patients are caused by frequent smoking. We all know that cigarettes contain a lot of nicotine, which not only harms people's lungs, but also damages people's respiratory tracts. After pharyngitis, patients will feel particularly uncomfortable in their throats. So what does pharyngitis feel like?

Acute pharyngitis in adults mainly presents pharyngeal symptoms. At the beginning of the disease, the throat feels dry, itchy, and burning, which gradually leads to pain. The pain worsens when swallowing, and the saliva increases. If the lateral pharyngeal cords are affected, there will be obvious ear pain. For weak adults or children, systemic symptoms are obvious, including fever, chills, headache, loss of appetite, and sore limbs.

Patients with chronic pharyngitis will feel discomfort in the throat, such as dryness, itching, and swelling, with excessive secretions and burning pain, nausea, a foreign body sensation, and difficulty in coughing up or swallowing. The above symptoms will be aggravated by talking a lot, eating irritating foods, being tired or when the weather changes. Breathing and swallowing are unobstructed.

The main pathological changes of pharyngitis are chronic congestion and hypertrophy of the mucosa, hyperplasia or contiguous patches of lymphoid follicles on the posterior pharyngeal wall. Low-temperature ablation, which uses the energy of low-temperature plasma radio frequency to produce strong molecular movement, forms a special endogenous thermal effect, and uses a relatively low temperature (40-70°C) to liquefy and ablate tissue protein, causing the diseased tissue to atrophy, flatten, disappear or necrotic and fall off, and fresh mucosa to regenerate and repair, restoring the posterior pharyngeal wall mucosa to be smooth, ruddy and flat, thereby eradicating the lesions, alleviating symptoms and curing the disease. Although it has been used in clinical practice for a relatively short time, it has quickly gained recognition among patients for its advantages such as precision, safety, simplicity, minimal trauma, high efficacy, less pain, quick recovery, no need for hospitalization for most patients, and simple post-treatment care.

What are the symptoms of severe strep throat?

Pharyngitis is a disease caused by bacteria and is divided into acute pharyngitis and chronic pharyngitis. Generally speaking, the symptoms of severe pharyngitis include the following:

1. The nasopharynx is dry and uncomfortable, and there is a sticky secretion that is difficult to cough up. This is one of the symptoms of the throat.

2. The feeling of having furry things or sticky phlegm, nausea, vomiting, and regurgitation are also symptoms of pharyngitis.

3. There is often a feeling of a foreign body in the throat that cannot be coughed out or swallowed.

4. In severe cases, the symptoms of pharyngitis include hoarseness and sore throat, which are more severe in the morning.

5. Headache, dizziness, and fatigue are also symptoms of pharyngitis.

What are the dangers of pharyngitis?

Although pharyngitis is a relatively common disease, it can cause many harms if it is not treated actively. Therefore, it is recommended to actively treat it. The specific harms are as follows:

1. Inflammation of the throat causes coughing and wheezing. The pharynx is the main channel connecting the human body with the outside world and has important functions such as defense, breathing, swallowing, and vocal resonance. Acute and chronic inflammation of the pharynx leads to pathological changes, which in turn lead to many respiratory diseases.

2. Swelling of the throat will affect swallowing of food. Inflammation or other lesions in the throat can stimulate the nerves that control the esophagus, causing diaphragm spasm, and symptoms such as hiccups and a fullness under the heart.

3. Cause endocrine disorders. There are endocrine organs such as the thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, submandibular gland, and parotid gland around the neck and throat. When there is inflammation or other lesions in the neck and throat, it is easy to spread to these endocrine organs through the branches of the lymphatic vessels, causing corresponding endocrine organ lesions, endocrine disorders, and corresponding diseases. For example, upper respiratory tract infection may be complicated by mumps, thyroiditis, etc.