For the clinical picture of acute pharyngitis is characterized by a tickle, dryness, discomfort and pain in the throat when swallowing (especially when empty throat), rarely malaise, rise in temperature. When inflammation tub faring cushions the pain usually radiates to the ears. On palpation, there may be a pain and an increase in upper cervical lymph nodes. When pharynx scope visible hyperemia posterior pharyngeal wall and palatine arches, some inflamed lymphoid granules, but no typical angina symptoms of inflammation of the tonsils. Keep in mind that strep throat can be the first manifestation of some infectious diseases: measles, scarlet fever, measles, and rubella. In some cases, required differential diagnosis with the disease Kawasaki and Stevens Johnson syndrome.

What does strep throat look like - for the clinical picture of chronic pharyngitis is not typical of the temperature increase and a significant deterioration in general condition. Feeling sick characterized as dry, scratchy and the feeling of a lump in my throat that causes a desire to cough or clear his throat. Cough is usually hard, dry and easily distinguishable from the cough that accompanies during trachea bronchitis.

Discomfort in the throat is often associated with the need to constantly force to swallow located on the back of the throat mucus, which makes the patient irritable, interferes with their usual activities and disrupts sleep. When atrophic pharyngitis pharynx mucosa looks thinning, dry, often covered with dried mucus. The shiny surface of the mucosa may be seen in injected vessels. In hypertrophic form pharynx, scope reveals hotbeds of hyperplastic lymphoid tissue, randomly scattered on the back of the throat or enlarged tub faring rollers, located behind the rear palatine bows. At the time of exacerbation of these hyperemia and edema of the mucosa, but usually the scarcity of objective findings accompany changes does not correspond to symptoms of concern to patients.

Chronic pharyngitis is often not an independent disease, but a manifestation of pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract: chronic atrophic gastritis, pancreatitis. Contact with acidic gastric contents into the throat during sleep with gastro esophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia is often the underlying cause of chronic catarrhal pharyngitis, and in this case, without addressing the fundamental causes of the disease any of the methods of local treatment gives insufficient and short-lived effect. Smoking and tonsillectomy led to the development of atrophic changes in the mucosa of the pharynx.

Pharyngitis often occurs in constantly labored nasal breathing.