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Health Tips on
SoreThroats
Does your throat hurt? If so, you may console yourself with the knowledge that you have plenty of company. Sore throlt is one of the more common physical discomforts that plague most of us from time to time. Sore throat is nature’s warning system that something in your body is out of order. Often a sore throat accompanies a common cold and the soreness passes in a few days. But, says Today’s Health, the family magazine of the American Medical Association, sore throat also can be the symptom of any of a wide range of disea ses, from diphtheria to leukemia, that re quire your physician's skill, not your guessing, to diagnose. Sometimes tonsils and adenoids are involved in causing a sore throat, and when these organs repeatedly cause trouble they frequently are removed. Tonsil-adenoid removals account for half of all surgery performed on children, Today’s Health reports. Sometimes the removal helps prevent sore throat, sometimes it doesn’t. Allergies can cause sore throats. Cold, dry winter air can trigger it. So can extreme thirst, excessive smoking or mouth breathing. Anything that dries out the throat and cuts off secretions that normally wash dust away. Virus infections of many types also are a cause of sore throat, and everyone who has had “flu* knows that this particular virus disease often causes the throat to hurt. “Strep throat* is a serious infection that occasionally eads to rheumatic fever and possible heart damage. It can >e knocked out with penicilin, if it is diagnosed in time. The crucial diagnostic test n sore throats is the swab est through which the germs causing the trouble can be dentified. There is little or nothing fou can do to cure a sore hroat at home. There are nedications which bring ter^ >orary easing of the dis:omfort but the cure must >e launched by your physiian.
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