When you have a cold and a fever, there is always phlegm in your throat. This kind of phlegm is the most annoying, even if you can't cough it up, you can't swallow it. This small series introduces several methods of eliminating phlegm, hoping to help you.

I can't cough up phlegm in my throat.

Method 1: Rinse your mouth with light salt water.

Phlegm in the throat is usually caused by chronic pharyngitis. For chronic pharyngitis, we can gargle with light salt water. Rinsing your mouth with light salt water often helps to remove the bacteria remaining in your throat and keep your throat moist and clean. Sticking to gargling with light salt water for about a year can alleviate the symptoms caused by chronic pharyngitis.

Before gargling every day, you can add a spoonful of salt to the water, swallow the water into your mouth, then tilt your head back, gargle for about 30 seconds and then spit it out. Generally, children aged 3 or 4 can start gargling like this.

Method 2: pat the back.

Generally speaking, we have all seen elders pat people with coughs on the back. This method is also helpful for cases where phlegm cannot be coughed up. A proper pat on the back helps to guide the sputum in the lungs or bronchi. In addition, there are many acupoints on the back, and occasional slapping can also speed up blood circulation and play a certain role in nourishing the heart and protecting the lungs.

So are children. You can let your child lie on your parents' legs and pat it moderately from bottom to top and from outside to inside with your palm. You can shoot about three times a day, and the time of each shot is controlled within 5 minutes, not less than 3 minutes. For some old people, it is enough to bend down and pat moderately every day, and the intensity is lighter.

Method 3: Drink more cold water.

It is reasonable to drink more water. When we have phlegm in the throat, drinking more water can dilute the phlegm in the throat, make it less sticky, and also alleviate the problem of insufficient water in the respiratory tract caused by cough. Therefore, drinking cold boiled water often can dilute the secretions and sputum in the throat and make it easier to excrete.

Method 4: Drug treatment

This is a helpless way, because phlegm in the throat is often caused by some disease factors. If the disease is not controlled, phlegm in the throat will continue. Therefore, when some common methods don't work, it's best to consult a doctor for relevant treatment, so as not to delay the illness.