What to do if you have a sore throat with a cold

A sore throat occurs easily when you have a cold and can be severe enough to cause hoarseness, or difficulty swallowing. What should I do if I have a sore throat?

Food therapy

After the symptoms of cold sore throat appear, you should avoid smoking, alcohol, spicy, cold, too hot or overly stimulating food, and drink more lightly smoked water, eat more easily digestible food, and keep the bowels open, such as honey, lemon, kelp, radish, water chestnut, sugar cane, winter amaranth, etc. The following recipes are suitable for treating cold and sore throat.

Snow pear with rock sugar

Peel 2 pears and add the right amount of water to make soup, add the right amount of rock sugar after boiling, wait for the rock sugar to melt to eat. Ice sugar is flat and cold, pears are sweet and slightly cold, ice sugar snow pear has the effect of tonifying the middle, nourishing the yin and moistening the lung, stopping cough and resolving phlegm, and moistening the throat. Cold sore throat patients who are afraid of cold, easy diarrhea, icing sugar snow pear is best to drink while warm.

Silver fungus and ginseng egg soup

Take appropriate amount of silver fungus and ginseng and boil water, then crack an egg into it, and then make silver fungus and ginseng egg soup. This soup has the effect of treating dry and sore throat and lack of oral fluid.

Water chestnut lotus root juice

Put one lotus root and 10 water chestnuts into a juicer and squeeze the juice to drink, or add honey to drink.

Mint juice

Put a few mint leaves, 1 small piece of ginger, 1 peeled orange and half a cup of cool boiled water into a juicer and drink. Mint can effectively relieve sore throat and cool the mouth, while tangerine is rich in vitamin C, which can enhance immune function. While drinking mint juice, consume a little garlic to achieve the anti-inflammatory effect, because the allicin in garlic has a very good bactericidal effect.

Freshly squeezed pineapple juice

Freshly squeezed pineapple juice contains more pineapple berry, which helps to reduce inflammation and is a more effective traditional remedy for sore throat .

Anti-inflammatory

If you have a sore throat, it means your respiratory tract has been infected by the cold virus, so you should use reasonable medication to reduce inflammation under the guidance of your doctor.

Pay attention to rest

If you have a sore throat, don't talk for a long time, and don't shout or sing at the top of your lungs. You should pay more attention than usual to the routine of rest and recuperation, rest in bed immediately when you feel tired, and pay attention to indoor ventilation and keep warm.

Acupressure points

First, stimulate the back of the neck Fengchi to the shoulder and back acupuncture points to relieve tension, adjust breathing before acupressure of the throat. When applying acupressure to throat points such as Renying, Shuitu, Qishe, and Tiantou, it is important to use discretion in the amount of pressure to avoid pain caused by airway obstruction. Tien-Tu is effective in improving redness of the tonsils and the feeling of obstruction in the throat. In addition, acupressure should be applied to the lateral neck points of tianwu and tianding, the cataract under the ear, danzhong in the chest, and blind yu in the abdomen. Acupressure on the shaku-ze, kong-chi, he-gu, and san-yin-jiao of the feet is effective in relieving sore throat symptoms.

Tablet

You can use lozenges, lozenges, and lozenges to moisten the throat and relieve pain if the throat pain after a cold is not serious. However, if it is accompanied by serious symptoms such as fever and cough, you should seek medical attention and use medicine to treat it.