How to Get Over a Sore Throat Quickly

I'll tell you how to cure 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 cure a sore throat quickly.

How to Cure a Sore Throat Quickly

Coughing is originally a good thing. Coughing has the function of protecting our airways. However, if coughing starts due to a cold or allergy, the throat becomes dry due to coughing, and due to the dry throat, coughing starts again, so this becomes a vicious cycle and continues to cough for a long time. To treat this vicious cycle, you can do the following.

Medication

You need to treat the dryness in your throat. As this dryness is treated, coughing is naturally cured. Dextromethorphan, the main ingredient in cough syrup, tricks the brain into feeling like there is no cough. It has the effect of making you feel that way for about 4 hours. So, after about 4 hours, the tingling and dryness in your throat reappear, causing you to cough again.

Treating Dryness

So how should we treat dryness? Many people say that drinking warm tea makes their throat feel comfortable. This is because it treated the dryness. But there's a problem with warm tea or water.
 
It evaporates too quickly. That's why saliva is necessary. Unlike water, our saliva contains a component called 'mucin' that coats the mucous membrane.
 
Saliva wraps around the dry throat, treating the dryness. It's similar to how applying lotion to dry skin retains moisture. So, how can we make more saliva? Simply chewing gum or sucking on a throat lozenge will increase saliva production.
 
If you feel like you're developing a sore throat, keep sucking on candy. Saliva will constantly be produced in your mouth, effectively controlling the dryness of your throat. During the day, you can keep chewing gum or sucking on candy all day long, but you can't do that at night. That's where a humidifier comes in.
 
You should turn on a humidifier by your bedside when you sleep or hang up a damp towel to prevent the air entering your airways from being too dry and cold. And take the cough syrup I mentioned earlier before bed.

In Conclusion

Even though it's not a fundamental cure that simply tricks the brain, if you can trick yourself into not coughing until you fall asleep, that's all that matters. If you don't cough and get a good night's sleep, you'll notice a slight improvement the next morning. If you understand this cough-dryness vicious cycle well, you can easily overcome coughs and colds.
 
However, if your cough gets worse despite this treatment, and you start producing yellow phlegm, you should visit a doctor and get antibiotics.