My throat is very dry and feels like there is something foreign in it

The throat is a relatively important part of our body and plays an important role in eating and talking. We must take good care of the throat in daily life and develop good oral hygiene. If there is a problem with oral hygiene, it will affect the health of the throat. When your throat feels like there is something stuck in it that cannot come out or go down, and your throat feels very dry, you may be suffering from pharyngitis.

Symptoms of acute pharyngitis:

At the beginning, the throat is dry and burning. When the inflammation invades the larynx, there will be coughing and hoarseness. Then there will be pain. The pain in the throat when swallowing saliva is often more obvious than when eating. The systemic symptoms are generally mild, but the degree varies depending on age, immunity, and the virulence of viruses and bacteria. There may be fever, headache, loss of appetite, and sore limbs.

Symptoms of chronic pharyngitis:

Discomfort in the throat, dryness, itching, swelling, excessive secretions and burning pain, nausea, foreign body sensation, inability to cough out or swallow, especially after talking a lot, eating irritating food, feeling tired or when the weather changes; if you get a little cold, tired, talk a lot, or haven't drunk water for a long time, you will feel worse pain and burning in the throat, and the itchy throat will cause bouts of irritating coughing, affecting your rest.

Chronic simple laryngitis:

The laryngeal mucosa is diffusely congested and swollen, the vocal cords lose their original pearly white color and become pink, the edges become blunt, and thick mucus can be seen on the surface of the mucosa, often forming mucus threads between the glottis.

Hypertrophic laryngitis:

The laryngeal mucosa is thickened, especially in the interarytenoid region. The vocal cords are also thickened and cannot move toward the midline, resulting in poor closure. The ventricular zone is often thickened and covers part of the vocal cords, and the aryepiglottic folds may also be thickened.

Atrophic laryngitis:

The laryngeal mucosa is dry, thin and shiny, and there are often yellow-green or dark brown dry scabs in the interarytenoid area and under the glottis. If the scabs are coughed out, a small amount of blood can be seen on the surface of the mucosa. The vocal cords become thinner and their tension is weakened.

Precautions

1. If you suffer from pharyngitis, you should not delay and seek treatment in time. If the patient has symptoms such as dry throat and sore throat, he or she can choose some lozenges, whose main effects are clearing the throat, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and have a good therapeutic effect on acute and chronic pharyngitis.

2. Secondly, develop good living habits, quit smoking and drinking, and eat regularly;

3. Third, improve the working environment, open windows frequently to ventilate the room, ensure air circulation, and avoid the stimulation of dust and harmful gases; fourth, strengthen exercise, enhance physical fitness, and prevent colds.