Throat (pharynx - the Greek. "Sip") is a fairly common disease of the mucous tissues of the pharynx. Develops pharyngitis due to the impact of a number of unfavorable factors, including, for example, as irritants, bacteria, viruses, etc.

 In form of the disease, pharyngitis is divided into acute and chronic.

 The acute form of pharyngitis

develops due to such reasons as: too hot, cold (or, conversely, hot) food, alcohol and nicotine, runny nose, intense exposure of contaminated or extremely cold air.

Sore throat, symptoms of which in its acute form manifest as: a sore throat (especially when swallowing phlegm, fluid or food), dry cough, accompanied by sore throat and slight fever, with not enough seriousness to the patient can result in serious complications.

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Sore throat, symptoms of which we have described above, may be a consequence of other diseases with similar symptoms in many respects, in particular SARS. In such cases, pharyngitis can not be considered an independent disease and should be regarded as a related symptom of another disease. In such cases, may show other symptoms: abrupt fever, rash and sore throat and sore throat, etc., whose treatment at an early stage is not properly conducted, may pass into the chronic stage, which will heal much more complicated.

 The chronic form of pharyngitis.

As mentioned above, chronic pharyngitis is often a consequence of becoming awkward healed of acute pharyngitis. In addition, risk factors may be no less serious reasons, such as: diabetes mellitus, resulting in a systematic manner sore throat and nose, metabolic or functional capacity of the heart, kidneys, lungs and liver adverse impacts of the environment (stable over dried air, or a high concentration of carcinogens in the air, dust, smoke), and others Pharyngitis, treatment is carried out without clarifying the exact motives of its appearance, definitely will not be cured.

 In its chronic pharyngitis, like any chronic disease can be in two stages - the remission and exacerbation.

 On the treatment of pharyngitis

The first condition is that you must do, started to treat pharyngitis - correct diagnosis - or rather, the causes of the disease. Pharyngitis, treatment of which is directly connected with the elucidation of the causes that produced the disease, with proper physician's approach can be cured without a trace. If pathogens were bacteria, the doctor prescribes antibiotics, if the disease is viral in nature; efforts can be directed at combating the symptoms as the disease goes away. If the survey revealed that the cause of pharyngitis were harmful environmental factors that are present in the workplace, you should make global conclusions and change jobs, or stock up on personal protection equipment and quit smoking.