Pharyngitis is a chronic disease. Many people suffer from this disease in daily life. For example, nausea and retching when brushing teeth every morning are symptoms of chronic pharyngitis. The factors that cause chronic pharyngitis include Many things, such as frequent irritation of the throat and overexertion, can lead to the occurrence of pharyngitis. So, what are the symptoms of chronic pharyngitis?
1. Incessant coughing
Patients with chronic pharyngitis often make habitual dry coughs and clearing their throats to cough up phlegm due to the small amount of pharyngeal secretions that are difficult to cough up. In severe cases, they cough excessively. Frequent exertion may cause bleeding in the pharyngeal mucosa, resulting in blood streaks in the expectoration.
2. Dry nasopharynx
Chronic pharyngitis has dry and thin pharyngeal mucosa, covered with purulent scab. Patients are prone to feel dryness in the nasopharynx, which cannot be relieved by drinking water, and there is still burning. Burning sensation. It is often obvious when using the throat excessively, changing climate, or inhaling dry hot or cold air.
3. Nausea and vomiting
Patients with chronic pharyngitis have pharyngeal mucosal congestion, varicose veins, dark red color, less and thick secretions, multiple follicles on the posterior pharyngeal wall, and lateral pharyngeal cords. The lymphatic tissue is thickened, with foreign body sensation, inability to cough out, inability to swallow, and nausea and vomiting when brushing teeth.
4. Hoarseness and sore throat
In mild cases of chronic pharyngitis, the pronunciation pitch is low and thick, and the sound quality loses roundness and clarity. In severe cases, the pronunciation is hoarse or even completely aphonic. There is a foreign body sensation in the pharynx, frequent swallowing movements, and pharyngeal pain when swallowing.
5. Other symptoms
Chronic pharyngitis causes loss of appetite and endocrine disorders, so in addition to the above symptoms, there are also symptoms such as headache, dizziness, fatigue, indigestion, and low fever.
6. High-risk groups
Chronic pharyngitis is more common in adults, but may also occur in children. Those with recurrent acute pharyngitis, those with long-term mouth breathing, those with rhinitis, sinusitis and chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract, those with chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis, or those who smoke and drink excessively for a long time, eat spicy food, or are exposed to dust or polluted air, And those who use their voices excessively, such as teachers, singers, etc.
7. Causes of chronic pharyngitis
1. Invasion of evil poisons
Wind-cold, wind-heat, and epidemic diseases invade from the mouth and nose. First, Passes through the throat and then invades the lungs and stomach. If the blockage is not removed and forms a knot in the pharynx along the meridians, it will cause obstruction of qi and blood in the pharynx, causing the body fluids to boil and steam and burn the pharynx to cause disease. Common symptoms are redness, swelling and pain in the throat.
2. Exuberance of evil poisons
The invading evil poisons are very strong, and the righteous qi is weak and unable to resist the evil. Then the evil spreads from the outside to the inside, affecting the lungs and stomach, causing the lungs and stomach to accumulate. Heat, the heat moves upward and attacks the pharynx. If the heat is strong and the blood is blocked and the qi is stagnant, the pharynx will be red, swollen and painful.
3. Yin deficiency and dryness of the lungs
Long-term illness or excessive strain will consume the yin fluid in the lungs. The lungs are delicate organs. If the yin fluid is consumed, the deficiency heat will be internalized. If it is raw, the endogenous deficient heat will cause inflammation along the meridians, steam and burn the pharynx, and cause pharyngeal disease.
4. Yin deficiency and fire hyperactivity
Due to long-term illness or overwork, or internal emotional injury, such as strong or long-term mental stimulation that causes organ qi and blood dysfunction, long-term illness damages the kidneys, All can consume kidney essence. If the kidney's yin-jin is insufficient, on the one hand, the yin-jin cannot be injected into the throat, and the throat loses nourishment, becomes weak, and is susceptible to distortion and invasion, or residual evil is likely to remain despite treatment, making it difficult to recover; on the other hand, the kidney's yin-jin cannot be injected into the throat. Insufficient yin and body fluids will lead to internal deficiency of fire, which will inflame the throat along the meridians. Both can cause chronic pharyngitis, redness, swelling and pain in the throat.
5. Liver qi stagnation
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the function of the liver is to disperse and vent, and its meridians pass through the throat and enter the pharynx. If the liver is injured due to poor emotions or anger, it can lead to Stagnation of liver qi can easily lead to stagnation of qi and phlegm coagulation. Blockage in the meridians causes pain in the throat and foreign body sensation.