1. What are the symptoms of pharyngolaryngitis
1. Acute pharyngitis
Acute pharyngolaryngitis is often caused by viruses, followed by bacteria. Winter and spring are the most common. Most of them are secondary to acute rhinitis, acute sinusitis and acute tonsillitis, and are often complications of infectious diseases such as measles, influenza and scarlet fever. The main symptoms of adults are pharynx. At the beginning of the disease, the pharynx is dry and itchy, burning, and gradually painful. When swallowing, it is aggravated, saliva is increased, and the lateral pharyngeal cord is involved, but there is obvious earache. Weak adults or children have obvious systemic symptoms, such as fever, fear of cold, headache, loss of appetite, sore limbs and so on.
2. Chronic pharyngitis
is mainly caused by repeated attacks caused by incomplete treatment of acute pharyngitis, or by various nasal diseases, nasal obstruction, long-term mouth breathing, physical and chemical factors, neck radiotherapy and other frequent stimulation of the pharynx. Various chronic diseases of the whole body, such as anemia, constipation, chronic inflammation of lower respiratory tract and cardiovascular diseases, can also be secondary to this disease. Consciously throat discomfort, dryness, itching, bloating, excessive secretion and burning pain, easy to dry and evil, foreign body sensation, unable to cough up and swallow, the above symptoms are aggravated after talking a little more, eating irritating food, fatigue or weather changes. Breathing and swallowing are unobstructed.
According to the degree of pathological changes, it can be divided into chronic simple laryngitis, hypertrophic laryngitis and atrophic laryngitis.
(1) Chronic simple laryngitis
The laryngeal mucosa is diffuse hyperemia and swelling, and the vocal cords lose their original pearly white color and become pink, with dull edges. Thick mucus can be seen on the surface of the mucosa, which often forms mucilage filaments between glottis.
(2) Hypertrophic laryngitis
The laryngeal mucosa is thick, especially in the arytenoid area, and the vocal cords are also thick, so they can not close to the midline, and the ventricular band is often thick to cover some vocal cords, and the arytenoid fold can also be thickened.
(3) Atrophic laryngitis
The laryngeal mucosa is dry, thin and shiny, and there are often yellow-green or black-brown dry scabs in the arytenoid area and under the glottis. If the scab skin is coughed up, it can be seen that there is a small amount of blood oozing on the mucosal surface, the vocal cords are thinned and its tension is weakened.
2. Etiology of pharyngolaryngitis
The etiology of pharyngolaryngitis is complex, but it can be mainly attributed to living habits, eating habits and environmental factors. These three aspects are external causes, and internal causes include their own health status and the treatment of related diseases. Most patients are caused by the interaction of internal and external factors, and some patients are caused by one of them. Therefore, for patients with chronic pharyngolaryngitis, if we can't pay attention to and correct some bad habits and details in life in time, the condition will be aggravated and the treatment effect will be seriously affected. The detailed causes are as follows:
1. Virus infection
Virus infection is transmitted through droplets and close contact, with Coxsackie virus, adenovirus and parainfluenza virus causing the most pain, followed by rhinovirus and influenza virus.
2. Bacterial infection
Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Pneumococcus are the main bacterial infections. Among them, group A streptococcus is the most serious, bacteria or toxins enter the blood, or even purulent lesions of distant organs occur, which is called acute septic pharyngitis.
3. Physical and chemical factors
Physical and chemical factors such as high temperature, dust, smoke, irritating gas, etc.
Pharyngolaryngitis will have a great impact on people's daily life, so what harm does it do to the body? The harm of pharyngitis, let's take a look at it.
3. Hazards of Pharyngolaryngitis
1. Acute pharyngitis can cause systemic diseases
In addition to sore throat, it can also show systemic poisoning reactions such as fever, chills, headache, aches all over, poor appetite, dry stool and thirsty mouth. When there is bacterial infection, the number of white blood cells in blood decreases. If the sore throat is violent and affects swallowing, it will also form nutrient and metabolic disorders in the body.
2. Speech and swallowing are affected
Patients with chronic pharyngitis often feel uncomfortable in the throat. When they catch a cold or are tired, or talk too much and don't drink water for a long time, they feel sore throat and burning, and itchy throat causes soothing coughs, which affects their rest. If it is boring or atrophic pharyngitis, the dry throat is clear, and it is also laborious to speak and swallow saliva. It is necessary to drink water frequently and even get up and drink water several times at night, but it can only temporarily relieve the symptoms and soon feel dry throat; Some people need soup to swallow hard food when eating.
3. Snoring that affects breathing retardation
Some patients show foreign body sensation in the pharynx, and often make gagging and swallowing measures, hoping to remove foreign bodies, but these ineffective throat clearing measures can only alleviate the original discomfort. So the patient suspects that he has a tumor in his throat, throat or esophagus, forming a heavy sense of physical burden and oppression. Others sleep and snore because of the thickening of pharyngeal mucosa, which affects the delay of breathing.
4. It can cause halitosis
Inflammatory secretions and bacteria stay, and it can cause halitosis, which not only affects others, but also makes the patient very upset. Chronic pharyngitis leads to the decrease of pharyngeal resistance. When the climate changes in cold, hot, dry and humid conditions, the warming and humidifying effects of mucous membranes are weakened, and the cilia are not active enough, so bacteria and viruses easily stay and multiply in some parts and become slow and lovely infected lesions. As a result, these patients easily catch a cold and cause an acute attack of pharyngitis.
Pharyngolaryngitis is very harmful, so it is very important to prevent and cure the disease. How to prevent pharyngitis, let's take a look at it.
4. How to prevent pharyngolaryngitis
1. Avoid using your voice too much or shouting loudly, pay attention to rest, reduce labor and exercise properly. People with systemic diseases should be actively treated, and if there are diseases in the nasopharynx and oral cavity, they should be treated in time.
2. Always drink cool throat-moistening drinks and eat fruits, such as sugarcane, pears, water chestnuts, pomegranates, etc., rinse your mouth with salt water every morning, and eat radishes raw or cooked with radishes.
3. Flos Lonicerae, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, raw hay, Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Boat-fruited Sterculia, etc. are brewed with boiling water in a thermos cup instead of tea, and are drunk irregularly every day.
4. swallowing Tianjin. Put your hands lightly on your legs, close your eyes slightly, put your tongue on your palate, calm down, breathe naturally, watch your throat, store body fluid in your mouth, and slowly swallow it for 15-2 minutes.
5. Take part in sports activities in moderation, improve physical fitness and disease resistance, and reduce the stimulation of alcohol and tobacco, but you should not rely solely on drugs.
6. Pay attention to oral hygiene, insist on brushing your teeth in the morning and evening and after meals, and correct the bad habit of breathing with your mouth open to avoid oral pollution caused by dust in the air. Rinse your mouth with light salt water in the morning and evening, and then drink a cup of light salt water to prevent infection.
7. Keep the air in the room moist and clean, and do not smoke or put anything with irritating smell indoors. When heating with heating in winter, you should pay attention to not being too dry indoors. You can use a humidifier or put a wet towel on the heating before going to bed to keep the air moist.
8. Quit smoking and drinking. Alcohol and tobacco can stimulate the throat and damage the body's function, and should be resolutely given up. Eat less fried and irritating food.
5, remedies to relieve pharyngitis
1, honey tea
Take a proper amount of tea leaves in a cup, make tea with boiling water, add a proper amount of honey after cooling, and drink it evenly, once every half hour, for several days.
2. Gouqi porridge
Choose 15g of Lycium barbarum and 15g of glutinous rice. Wash glutinous rice and Lycium barbarum separately, add water, stand for 3 minutes, and cook with slow fire to make porridge. Take 1 bowl every day, which has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening throat.
3. Lohan fruit tea
Chop one Siraitia grosvenorii and brew it in boiling water for 1 minutes before drinking. 1~2 times a day, 1 at a time.
4. Water chestnut radish juice
Wash and peel the water chestnut, wash and cut the fresh radish, and mix them in the juice blender to make juice. Drink a few cups of juice every day for 3~5 days, and you can clear away heat, relieve sore throat, open your voice and resolve phlegm.
5. Sesame brown sugar porridge
Stir-fry sesame seeds and grind them into fine powder. Cooked porridge with japonica rice, when the porridge is cooked until it is thick, add sesame brown sugar and cook for a while. This porridge is delicious, and is suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, dizziness, blurred vision, lung dryness, cough, dry throat and other symptoms.
6. Boat-fruited Sterculia Rehmannia Tea
There are 5 Boat-fruited Sterculia, 12 grams of Rehmannia, 3 grams of rock sugar, a proper amount of tea, and half a bottle is brewed in boiling water, and it is covered for about 15 minutes before drinking.
7. Sugarcane radish drink
Squeeze half a cup of fresh sugarcane juice and radish juice with a juicer, 1g of fresh lily or 5g of dried lily, boil the lily, mix it with sugarcane juice and radish juice, and refrigerate in the refrigerator. Take 1 cup every day before going to bed, which has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire.