Pain when pressing on the left side of your Adam's apple?

If you feel pain when pressing the left side of your Adam's apple, it may be caused by getting a sore throat. Pay attention to drinking more water, eat less spicy food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and pay more attention to rest. However, it may also be caused by pharyngitis or tonsillitis. Try to eat a light diet. If necessary, go to the hospital as soon as possible and take medicine under the doctor's guidance. Don't take medicine blindly.

1. How to prevent pharyngitis in spring

Drink cool throat-soothing drinks and eat fruits such as sugarcane, pears, water chestnuts, pomegranates, etc. frequently. Gargle with salt water every morning. You can also eat radishes raw or cook them into dishes.

Honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, raw hay, Scrophularia, Ophiopogon japonicus, Sterculia lychnophora, etc. can be brewed with boiling water in a thermos cup and consumed as tea at irregular times every day. It is best to take medicines sold on the market under the guidance of a doctor. Often hold the green fruit in your mouth, chew it slowly and swallow the juice; cut the pear into slices with the skin, add three green fruits and boil it, which has a certain effect on pharyngitis.

Pay attention to oral hygiene, brush your teeth in the morning, evening and after meals, and correct the bad habit of mouth breathing to avoid oral contamination from dust in the air. You can gargle with light salt water in the morning and evening. After gargling, you may want to drink a glass of light salt water to prevent infection.

Participate in physical activities in moderation to improve physical fitness and disease resistance, and reduce the stimulation of tobacco and alcohol, but do not rely solely on drugs.

Quit smoking and drinking. Tobacco and alcohol can irritate the throat and damage the body's functions, so they should be quit resolutely. Eat less fried, stir-fried and irritating foods.

Swallow jin. Place your hands lightly on your thighs, close your eyes slightly, press your tongue against the upper palate, calm your mind, breathe naturally, focus your mind on the throat, accumulate saliva in your mouth, and when your mouth is full, slowly swallow it. Do this for 15-20 minutes.

2. Clinical manifestations of pharyngitis

The systemic symptoms of chronic pharyngitis are not obvious, but local symptoms are the main ones. The symptoms of various types of chronic pharyngitis are roughly similar and varied, such as discomfort in the throat, foreign body sensation, itching, burning, dryness or irritation, and may also be accompanied by slight pain. It is mainly caused by stimulation of its secretions and hypertrophic lymph follicles. There may be cough and nausea.

3. How to check for pharyngitis

Examination of the pharynx revealed diffuse congestion of the mucosa, dilation of blood vessels, dark red color, and a small amount of viscous secretions. The uvula is swollen or flaccid. There is often mucus and dry crust attached to the top of the nasopharynx. Carefully examine adjacent organs for occult lesions.

The dangers of pharyngitis

1. People with chronic pharyngitis often feel discomfort in the throat. If they get cold, tired, talk a lot, or don't drink water for a long time, they will feel worse pain and burning in the throat. The itching in the throat will cause bursts of irritating coughs, affecting their rest. If it is dry or atrophic pharyngitis, the throat will be obviously dry, and it will be difficult to speak and swallow saliva. You need to drink water frequently to moisten the throat, and you may even need to get up several times at night to drink water. However, it can only temporarily relieve the symptoms, and the throat will soon feel dry again. Some people need soup to swallow dry and hard food when eating.

2. Some patients experience a foreign body sensation in the throat and often make grunting and swallowing movements in the hope of expelling the foreign body. However, these ineffective throat clearing movements can only aggravate the original discomfort. The patient then suspects that he has a tumor in his pharynx, throat or esophagus, which causes a heavy mental burden and depression. Some people snore during sleep due to thickening of the pharyngeal mucosa, which affects the smoothness of breathing. The retention of inflammatory secretions and bacteria can cause bad breath, which not only affects others but also causes great distress to the patient himself.

3. It may develop downward and invade the larynx, trachea and other lower respiratory tracts, causing acute laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; if pathogenic bacteria and toxins invade the blood circulation, it may cause systemic complications such as acute nephritis, sepsis, rheumatism, etc., which are extremely harmful to the body.