What should I do if my neck feels tight due to chronic pharyngitis?

Chronic pharyngitis may cause repeated inflammation. Chronic pharyngitis usually presents with sore throat, itchy throat, and constant coughing, which affects people's normal life. Some patients with chronic pharyngitis may feel a tight neck. I wonder if the tight neck is caused by chronic pharyngitis. What should I do if I feel a tight neck due to chronic pharyngitis? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What should I do if my neck feels tight due to chronic pharyngitis?

Long-term chronic pharyngitis causes neck muscle tension. It only needs to control the inflammation. It is recommended to use Chinese medicine to regulate the body and increase resistance. Once the inflammation is eliminated, the condition will gradually improve.

2. Chronic pharyngitis

Chronic pharyngitis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a slow course of disease. It often coexists with adjacent organs or systemic diseases, such as sinusitis, adenoid remnants or retention abscesses, pharyngeal pouch inflammation, etc., which may cause long-term irritation of the nasopharynx and lead to inflammation. In addition, it is closely related to certain unexplained diseases or symptoms, such as endocrine disorders, gastrointestinal dysfunction, rheumatoid arthritis, long-term low fever, headache, dizziness, bad breath and loss of smell. When chronic nasopharyngitis is cured, some diseases or symptoms can be significantly improved or cured.

3. Dietary precautions for patients with chronic pharyngitis

1. Try to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, such as apples, oranges, tomatoes, etc.

2. Pay attention to drinking plenty of water, because water can help detoxify the body and keep all parts of the body running smoothly.

3. You can maintain your throat through diet. For example, making tea with three Chinese medicinal herbs: honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum and puffed sea is a very good throat moisturizer. In addition, products such as throat lozenges and loquat paste can also have a good auxiliary therapeutic effect.

4. Dietary precautions for patients with chronic pharyngitis

1. Eat less smoked, cured, and over-cold or over-heated foods.

2. Avoid eating spicy foods, such as garlic, mustard, ginger, pepper, etc.

3. Avoid eating too many fried snacks, such as melon seeds, peanuts, etc.

4. You should also quit smoking and drinking, because the stimulation of tobacco and alcohol can easily cause inflammation of the throat mucosa.

5. Suitable ingredients

Vegetables: asparagus, amaranth, broccoli, day lily, bitter gourd, shepherd's purse, locust flower, tea tree mushroom, morel, mushroom, bell pepper, pea sprouts, kale, boletus, and pine mushroom.

Fruits: strawberry, kiwi, persimmon, longan, kumquat, sour jujube, winter jujube, guava, and pear.

Beans and soy products: soybeans, green beans, mung beans, black beans, adzuki beans, and peas.

Dried fruits: pine nuts, hazelnuts, dates, chestnuts, pecans, dried figs.

Medicinal and edible: Monk fruit, Cordyceps sinensis, Amomum villosum.

Aquatic products: nori, kelp, and hair algae.

Cereals: wheat, buckwheat, barley.

Fish: Pollack.

6. Avoid eating ingredients

Vegetables: leeks, chrysanthemum, coriander, mustard greens, onions, leeks, fennel, peppers, and green onions.

Meat: bacon, ham, sausage, bacon, pork skin, pork intestines, pork ribs, pork tenderloin.

Seasonings and pickled foods: pepper, Sichuan pepper, lard, cumin.

Medicinal and edible: Houttuynia cordata, cinnamon, and mint.

Eggs and dairy: cheese, butter, cream.

Beans and soy products: bean curd sticks, white lentils.

Dried fruits: almonds, pistachios.

Others: Chocolate.