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- It is important to increase saliva production to alleviate coughing, a major symptom of a sore throat, and a humidifier can be used to improve dry air.
- Taking medication to suppress coughing provides temporary relief but does not constitute a fundamental cure.
- If sore throat symptoms become severe, it may be necessary to visit a doctor for an antibiotic prescription.
I will tell you how to get better from a sore throat quickly. There are many types of colds that make us suffer. Among them, many of you must have suffered from a sore throat. This time, I will introduce you to an easy way to get better from a sore throat quickly.
How to Get Better from a Sore Throat Quickly
Coughing is actually a good thing. Coughing is a function that protects our respiratory tract. However, when coughing starts due to a cold or allergy, the throat becomes dry due to coughing, and if the dry throat causes coughing again, this becomes a vicious cycle, so you continue to cough for a long time. To cure this vicious cycle, you can do the following.
Drug Treatment
You need to treat the dryness in your throat. As this dryness is treated, the cough is also naturally treated. Dextromethorphan, the main ingredient in cough medicine, tricks the brain into feeling like you are not coughing. It has the effect of making you feel like you are not coughing for about 4 hours. So, after about 4 hours, the tingling and dryness in your throat will reappear, causing you to cough again.
Treating Dryness
How should you treat dryness? Many people say that drinking warm tea makes their throat feel comfortable. This is because it
treats dryness. But there is a problem with warm tea or water.
It evaporates too quickly. That's why saliva is needed. Our saliva is different from water, it contains an ingredient called
'mucin' that coats the mucous membrane.
Saliva wraps around the dry throat to treat the dryness. It is similar to how lotion keeps moisture in dry skin. So, how can
you make more saliva? If you chew gum or suck on throat lozenges, saliva will be secreted a lot.
If you think you have a sore throat, try sucking on candy all the time. Saliva will keep coming out in your mouth, so it will
help to control the dryness in your throat. You can keep chewing gum or candy all day long, but you can't do that at night. That's
why a humidifier is needed.
Turn on a humidifier by your bedside and sleep, or hang a wet towel to keep the air going into your respiratory tract from
becoming too dry and cold. And take the cough medicine I mentioned earlier before bed.
In conclusion
Even though it is not a fundamental cure that simply makes your brain feel like it is not coughing, it is enough to make you
feel like you are not coughing until you fall asleep. If you can sleep without coughing, you will feel a little better the
next morning. If you understand this coughing-dryness vicious cycle well, you can easily get rid of coughing and colds.
However, if you do these treatments and your cough gets worse, you get yellow phlegm, and so on, you should go to the hospital
and get antibiotics.