Our throat acts as a passage for carrying food via oesophagus to your stomach, and air via the windpipe to your lungs. Throat also hosts the voice box, which triggers our speech. Hence ignoring minor throat issues can lead to grave outcomes.
Common symptoms of a sore throat are pain or a scratchy sensation in the throat, pain that worsens while swallowing or talking, difficulty in swallowing, sore or swollen glands in your neck or jaw, swollen tonsils, white patches or pus on your tonsils and hoarse or muffled voice. Other symptoms indicating sore throat can be fever, cough, running nose, sneezing, body aches, headaches and nausea or vomiting.
Most of the above symptoms can be caused due to viral infections, bacterial infections, allergies, muscle strain, irritants, dryness. In the worst situations, A sore throat and other flu-like symptoms sometimes appear early after someone is infected with HIV. Cancerous tumours of the throat, tongue or voice box (larynx) can cause a sore throat, noisy breathing, a lump in the neck, and blood in saliva or phlegm. Rarely, an infected area of tissue (abscess) in the throat or swelling of the small cartilage “lid” that covers the windpipe (epiglottitis) can cause a sore throat. Both can block the airway, creating a medical emergency.
In such cases one must not delay in seeking medical help. If symptoms persist for over two days, one must immediately consult a doctor. He will be able to diagnose the accurate reason for swollen throat. He might ask you to do certain tests, in case he feels symptoms are graver, then the ones that meet his eye. Hence it is advised by any medical practitioner not to prolong check-up or visits even if the symptoms are mild, so that in case of any serious issue, the cause can be immediately detected and cured at initial level.
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2022/nov/09/understandingsore-throat-2516283.html
