Sore Throat home Remedies - Dr. Satish Babu | Doctors' Circle

Soreness in the throat can be due  to a lot of reasons. But most commonly because of infections, a common seasonal flu or sore throat. So if it is  mild,  we  do household remedies like salt  water gargling  or  chewing  lozenges, having  something  warm to drink like  hot  tea  or  soup will smoothen the  throat and beyond  that if it is  still happening  you  can use simple  anti-inflammatory medicines like paracetamol  to help in the night and  most of the times  when there is a sore  throat, here is a bit of  cold also and the nostrils  gets  congested and  gets blocked and  despite the soreness in the  throat , you may have  breathing  through the mouth which will worsen the  soreness and the dryness in the  throat and the  symptoms hence worsen.   Doing  steam  also  during  this period,  is  quite  helpful, in 2  or  3  days  if the  symptoms  are not improving,  you should get to a doctor and get  some medications basic medications, it need not be antibiotics  just  basic  supportive medicines  like decongestants or anti-inflammatory medications and Some medicated gargles should take care of that. During that period make  sure that you  have a lot of liquids,  keep yourself well hydrated because  you may  not be interested in having a proper meal and the hunger  comes  down and the pain prohibits  you  from eating comfortably. So your solid food intakes reduces  drastically. so make  sure that there is good amount  of  liquid  intake, whichever  you prefer, warm, normal temperature, cold  items are  avoided during this situation, but warm and  normal temperature liquids are taken comfortably and if  2  or  3 days if  things are getting  better, you can just leave it at that otherwise  simple medical help  will take care of  things.World's Largest Video Heath Platform is now in Hindi