How to soothe a sore throat??
Question: Right now I'm using Halls mentho-lyptus lozenges but it's not helping too much. My throat is KILLING me and i dont know how to get rid of it. I heard of gargling with warm salt water, but can anyone tell me how much salt and how much water to use?
Answers: Gargling with warm salt water kills all yje bacteria in there, but make sure you don't swallow it. Just use one little mug full of warm water and a few teaspoons of salt, stir it up and gargle a few times, make sure you get it in the back of your throat, do that twice a day, and drink some warm tea with honey and lemon to soothe it. My parent's always make me do that when I have a sore throat. Also, eat some chicken noodle soup and make sure your taking your vitamins. Camp out on the couch today, maybe tomorrow and you should feel better in a matter of days! Good Luck, Hope Your Feeling Better! :)
Try a cough drop. They relieve sore throats and prevents coughing. Good Luck!
PS: I never heard of using salt and water.. sounds painful.
I like the medicne called Sucrets
Take tylenol or some other pain reliever. It can help a lot. I would take a glass of water and fill it with maybe a teaspoon or salt. Drink lots of liquids.
i dont know that but what i do when im throat hurts i boil some water a take in all the steam by breathing in through your mouth
Don't talk. Drink cool water and take some tylenol. :)
my grandma would make me gargle with peroxide... it sounds weird I know, but read the bottle... just don't swallow it... also warm salt water works good too. Good Luck!
ok! the first thing you have to do is...have only one cup of water..and put one tea spoon of water! and the water has to be warm, because if it is cold then it wont help..so just have hot water from the tap and put salt and mix it...and gargle..or if it doesnt help..make black tea..and put 3 to 4 drops of fresh lemon in it..and drink as much as you can..and it is better if you make green tea too with the same process!
Heat up a cup of water. Add a tablespoon of Lemon juice and a tablespoon of honey. If you're not driving or anything you can also add a little whiskey. (it works fine without) Stir it up and drink it while it is very warm. It is very soothing.
Feel Better!
HOME REMEDIES FOR SORE THROAT
* Garlic is the most important remedy for sore throat. Chew some garlic pieces.
* Add lemon juice (from one lemon) some honey, to a glass of hot water. Drink this. It will give immediate relief from pain.
* Gargle with warm salt water. It is the best old age home remedy.
* Increase your liquid intake and make sure your house is humidified properly.
* Cut a lemon into 2 pieces. Take one piece and put some salt and black pepper on it, press with a knife so that salt-pepper penetrates into the lime. Put the lemon on heat to make it warm. Slowly lick this lemon squeezing it until no juice remains. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* Chives and scallions are helpful for a soar throat when simmered in water for 5 minutes. Drink as a tea.
* Figs, beets are also very effective in sore throat.
* Slippery Elm bark (Ulmus rubra) helps to soothe sore throats or cough. For sore throats, slippery elm bark can be taken as a tea. Prepare a tea by adding 1 tablespoon of dried bark to a cup. Pour 1 cup of boiling water into the cup. Steep it covered for at least 10 minutes and then strain. Have up to 3 cups of slippery elm bark tea a day.
* Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is another good sore throat remedy, however people with high blood pressure, heart, kidney or liver disease, pregnant or nursing women, or people who are taking diuretics, blood pressure drugs, should not use it.
* Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis), a herb found in Europe and North America, has been used for centuries as a sore throat home remedy. To make marshmallow root tea, add 1 tablespoon of the dried root to a cup. Add a cup (8 ounces) of boiling water, steep it covered for at least 10 minutes then strain. Drink up to 3 cups a day. Consult a doctor before taking marshmallow.
* Honeysuckle Flower, a sweet tasting and smelling herb, is one of the most commonly used sore throat remedies in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a remedy for sore throats. To prepare honeysuckle tea, bring 1 quart of water to a boil. Add 1 cup of honeysuckle flowers (not the leaves). Steep for at least 10 minutes, covered, and then strain. Sweeten with honey or stevia to taste if desired. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne pepper, juice of 1/4 a lemon, and 1 teaspoon of honey to a cup. Add 1 cup of hot water and stir. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Gargle with aloe Vera juice two times daily.
* Combine one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and three tablespoons of clover honey in a glass of warm water. Gargle as often as necessary.
* Betony is a useful astringent, which reduces inflammation. Make a tea and use as a gargle.
* Add 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and gargle while mixture is very warm. To this mixture you can add 4 parts Echinacea, 1 part garlic bulb, and 2 parts peppermint leaves to 1 part cayenne.
* Another remedy is to add 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and sip slowly.
* Prepare a tea by adding 1 or 2 teaspoons of dried chamomile blossoms to a pint of boiling water; steep and drink a cup every few hours.
* Add 30 drops of Echinacea/goldenseal combination to one cup of warm water; drink every two hours.
* Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful all-around antimicrobial product and is an excellent disinfectant and antiseptic. Add five drops to a glass of water for a soothing gargle.
* Prepare a mixture by adding ¼ cup of apple cider vinegar and ¼ cup of honey. Take one tablespoon every four hours or as needed for pain relief.
* Steep two teaspoons of dried hyssop in one cup of boiling water, covered for ten minutes; strain and drink cool for an expectorant or hot to relieve coughs, congestion, and sore throat.
* Grind one tablespoon of mustard seed and add the juice of half a lemon, one tablespoon of salt, one tablespoon of clear honey, and 1 1/4 cups of boiling water. Leave this mixture, covered, for 15 minutes and use as a gargle.
* Prepare a tea by adding 2 sprigs of coarsely chopped parsley, 3 whole spice cloves, 1 teaspoon of powdered myrrh, and 1/4 teaspoon powdered goldenseal to 1 pint of boiling water. Steep. Stir occasionally while cooling, then strain and use as a gargle or mouthwash.
* Boil some pomegranate rinds and drink as a tea. The pomegranate contains astringents
* Prepare a tea by adding five fresh crushed or dried leaves; place in a cup and fill with water cooled to just below boiling; cover and leave to infuse for five minutes; remove leaves and drink. May also be used as a gargle.
* For sore throat get a small dixie cup, pour cultured buttermilk in the cup. Slowly swish and gargle it in your mouth slowly drink a small cup of it every hour for 1 day and sore throat will be gone next day.
* Take 4 cloves of garlic - minced fine, 1 tbsp. Honey,1/8 tsp. cayenne (approx.). Mix this together, take a spoonful when needed and chew it up well before swallowing.
* Water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink, and also used as a gargle to relieve a sore throat.
* Tamarind water should be used as a gargle. A powder of the dry leaves and an infusion of the bark can also be used for preparation of a gargle for treating sore throat
* Two tablespoons of fenugreek seeds should be put in a litre of cold water and allowed to simmer for half an hour over a low flame. This should then be allowed to cool to a bearable temperature, strained, and then used entirely as a gargle.
Hello,
I hope the information below helps. Whenever I gargle with warm salt water my doctor has never told me the mixture I just do it to taste. Not too much-not too little. I repeat often. I would also read below.
The Medical Consumer's Advocate
Good for what ails you: how salt water helps a sore throat
This letter originally appeared in Dr. Hoffman's column on allHealth.com.
Q: What exactly is the mechanism/physiology of relief that gargling with warm salt water has on a sore throat?
A: This is an educated guess.
Sore throats are sore due to inflammation. Usually, the inflammation is due to a viral or bacterial infection (the common cold, and strep throat, are examples of each). However, sore throat may also be related to allergies or physical injury to the throat. In each case, an inflammatory response has been triggered. Pain, swelling and an itchy or irritated sensation are the common symptoms of this inflammatory response.
The medical term for swelling is edema. As part of the inflammatory response, there is an increase in the water content of the involved tissues. With respect to sore throat, a sense of fullness and difficulty swallowing are both related to edema of the tissue lining the throat (mucosa).
Water tends to follow salt. Anyone who has ever salted a snail knows what happens to the snail. Here’s a less disgusting analogy: have you ever salted slices of raw eggplant? The salt draws moisture from the eggplant; after a few minutes, you can see beads of fluid on the surface of the eggplant.
Everyone has a different recipe for a salt water gargle, but all recipes tend to be fairly salty. If the gargle has a higher salt concentration than your intrinsic salt concentration, it will tend to draw out some of the edema fluid from the mucosa of the throat. This will make SOME of your sore throat symptoms better. The relief is very real, but also tends to be short-lived, since the gargle has done nothing to remove the cause of the sore throat.
In some cases, gargling with salt water also has a cleansing action. If you are suffering from postnasal drainage due to a bacterial sinus infection or allergies, the mucus which drains from your nasal cavity is full of chemicals that tend to promote an inflammatory response. As this stuff drains down the back of your throat, it leaves a trail of inflamed tissues in its wake. Frequent gargling with salt water will help minimize this problem.
As with everything else in medicine, you can certainly overdo this one! Make the gargle salty enough, and you will dessicate the mucosa of the throat. This could lead to even greater irritation than what you started with!
I hope you feel better soon.
DONT TAKE THESE LOZENGES OR FANCY MAKE NAMES!!! just use the home remedies from above... the make-names soothe for the moment, like panadols etc do for headaches, but arent any good for your body - and dont cure the cause...
gargle with raw unpasteruzied apple cider vinegar, will kill all germs, even strep...i have done it, and yes, it works..do few times daily
gargle with water and some vinegar.
I always keep a bottle of Alkalol around to gargle with. It's an all natural mucolytic, which means it removes the mucus that often causes the pain.
It's available from just about any pharmacy and costs about $4 a bottle. It's more effective than salt water and you don't risk the chance of irritation.
Good luck and be well.
Kelley
My Patients ALWAYS ask me this.
If it is a virus, gargole with warm salt water. Hot chocoalte is very soothing.
Yogurt & other creamy food products help out a ton.
feel better soon!
Ease a sore throat and stop sinus drainage with 1 tsp vinegar in a glass of water,Gargle once a hour until cured. This works well
Answers: Gargling with warm salt water kills all yje bacteria in there, but make sure you don't swallow it. Just use one little mug full of warm water and a few teaspoons of salt, stir it up and gargle a few times, make sure you get it in the back of your throat, do that twice a day, and drink some warm tea with honey and lemon to soothe it. My parent's always make me do that when I have a sore throat. Also, eat some chicken noodle soup and make sure your taking your vitamins. Camp out on the couch today, maybe tomorrow and you should feel better in a matter of days! Good Luck, Hope Your Feeling Better! :)
Try a cough drop. They relieve sore throats and prevents coughing. Good Luck!
PS: I never heard of using salt and water.. sounds painful.
I like the medicne called Sucrets
Take tylenol or some other pain reliever. It can help a lot. I would take a glass of water and fill it with maybe a teaspoon or salt. Drink lots of liquids.
i dont know that but what i do when im throat hurts i boil some water a take in all the steam by breathing in through your mouth
Don't talk. Drink cool water and take some tylenol. :)
my grandma would make me gargle with peroxide... it sounds weird I know, but read the bottle... just don't swallow it... also warm salt water works good too. Good Luck!
ok! the first thing you have to do is...have only one cup of water..and put one tea spoon of water! and the water has to be warm, because if it is cold then it wont help..so just have hot water from the tap and put salt and mix it...and gargle..or if it doesnt help..make black tea..and put 3 to 4 drops of fresh lemon in it..and drink as much as you can..and it is better if you make green tea too with the same process!
Heat up a cup of water. Add a tablespoon of Lemon juice and a tablespoon of honey. If you're not driving or anything you can also add a little whiskey. (it works fine without) Stir it up and drink it while it is very warm. It is very soothing.
Feel Better!
HOME REMEDIES FOR SORE THROAT
* Garlic is the most important remedy for sore throat. Chew some garlic pieces.
* Add lemon juice (from one lemon) some honey, to a glass of hot water. Drink this. It will give immediate relief from pain.
* Gargle with warm salt water. It is the best old age home remedy.
* Increase your liquid intake and make sure your house is humidified properly.
* Cut a lemon into 2 pieces. Take one piece and put some salt and black pepper on it, press with a knife so that salt-pepper penetrates into the lime. Put the lemon on heat to make it warm. Slowly lick this lemon squeezing it until no juice remains. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* Chives and scallions are helpful for a soar throat when simmered in water for 5 minutes. Drink as a tea.
* Figs, beets are also very effective in sore throat.
* Slippery Elm bark (Ulmus rubra) helps to soothe sore throats or cough. For sore throats, slippery elm bark can be taken as a tea. Prepare a tea by adding 1 tablespoon of dried bark to a cup. Pour 1 cup of boiling water into the cup. Steep it covered for at least 10 minutes and then strain. Have up to 3 cups of slippery elm bark tea a day.
* Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is another good sore throat remedy, however people with high blood pressure, heart, kidney or liver disease, pregnant or nursing women, or people who are taking diuretics, blood pressure drugs, should not use it.
* Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis), a herb found in Europe and North America, has been used for centuries as a sore throat home remedy. To make marshmallow root tea, add 1 tablespoon of the dried root to a cup. Add a cup (8 ounces) of boiling water, steep it covered for at least 10 minutes then strain. Drink up to 3 cups a day. Consult a doctor before taking marshmallow.
* Honeysuckle Flower, a sweet tasting and smelling herb, is one of the most commonly used sore throat remedies in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a remedy for sore throats. To prepare honeysuckle tea, bring 1 quart of water to a boil. Add 1 cup of honeysuckle flowers (not the leaves). Steep for at least 10 minutes, covered, and then strain. Sweeten with honey or stevia to taste if desired. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne pepper, juice of 1/4 a lemon, and 1 teaspoon of honey to a cup. Add 1 cup of hot water and stir. Drink up to 4 cups a day.
* Gargle with aloe Vera juice two times daily.
* Combine one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and three tablespoons of clover honey in a glass of warm water. Gargle as often as necessary.
* Betony is a useful astringent, which reduces inflammation. Make a tea and use as a gargle.
* Add 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and gargle while mixture is very warm. To this mixture you can add 4 parts Echinacea, 1 part garlic bulb, and 2 parts peppermint leaves to 1 part cayenne.
* Another remedy is to add 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of boiling water; stir well and sip slowly.
* Prepare a tea by adding 1 or 2 teaspoons of dried chamomile blossoms to a pint of boiling water; steep and drink a cup every few hours.
* Add 30 drops of Echinacea/goldenseal combination to one cup of warm water; drink every two hours.
* Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful all-around antimicrobial product and is an excellent disinfectant and antiseptic. Add five drops to a glass of water for a soothing gargle.
* Prepare a mixture by adding ¼ cup of apple cider vinegar and ¼ cup of honey. Take one tablespoon every four hours or as needed for pain relief.
* Steep two teaspoons of dried hyssop in one cup of boiling water, covered for ten minutes; strain and drink cool for an expectorant or hot to relieve coughs, congestion, and sore throat.
* Grind one tablespoon of mustard seed and add the juice of half a lemon, one tablespoon of salt, one tablespoon of clear honey, and 1 1/4 cups of boiling water. Leave this mixture, covered, for 15 minutes and use as a gargle.
* Prepare a tea by adding 2 sprigs of coarsely chopped parsley, 3 whole spice cloves, 1 teaspoon of powdered myrrh, and 1/4 teaspoon powdered goldenseal to 1 pint of boiling water. Steep. Stir occasionally while cooling, then strain and use as a gargle or mouthwash.
* Boil some pomegranate rinds and drink as a tea. The pomegranate contains astringents
* Prepare a tea by adding five fresh crushed or dried leaves; place in a cup and fill with water cooled to just below boiling; cover and leave to infuse for five minutes; remove leaves and drink. May also be used as a gargle.
* For sore throat get a small dixie cup, pour cultured buttermilk in the cup. Slowly swish and gargle it in your mouth slowly drink a small cup of it every hour for 1 day and sore throat will be gone next day.
* Take 4 cloves of garlic - minced fine, 1 tbsp. Honey,1/8 tsp. cayenne (approx.). Mix this together, take a spoonful when needed and chew it up well before swallowing.
* Water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink, and also used as a gargle to relieve a sore throat.
* Tamarind water should be used as a gargle. A powder of the dry leaves and an infusion of the bark can also be used for preparation of a gargle for treating sore throat
* Two tablespoons of fenugreek seeds should be put in a litre of cold water and allowed to simmer for half an hour over a low flame. This should then be allowed to cool to a bearable temperature, strained, and then used entirely as a gargle.
Hello,
I hope the information below helps. Whenever I gargle with warm salt water my doctor has never told me the mixture I just do it to taste. Not too much-not too little. I repeat often. I would also read below.
The Medical Consumer's Advocate
Good for what ails you: how salt water helps a sore throat
This letter originally appeared in Dr. Hoffman's column on allHealth.com.
Q: What exactly is the mechanism/physiology of relief that gargling with warm salt water has on a sore throat?
A: This is an educated guess.
Sore throats are sore due to inflammation. Usually, the inflammation is due to a viral or bacterial infection (the common cold, and strep throat, are examples of each). However, sore throat may also be related to allergies or physical injury to the throat. In each case, an inflammatory response has been triggered. Pain, swelling and an itchy or irritated sensation are the common symptoms of this inflammatory response.
The medical term for swelling is edema. As part of the inflammatory response, there is an increase in the water content of the involved tissues. With respect to sore throat, a sense of fullness and difficulty swallowing are both related to edema of the tissue lining the throat (mucosa).
Water tends to follow salt. Anyone who has ever salted a snail knows what happens to the snail. Here’s a less disgusting analogy: have you ever salted slices of raw eggplant? The salt draws moisture from the eggplant; after a few minutes, you can see beads of fluid on the surface of the eggplant.
Everyone has a different recipe for a salt water gargle, but all recipes tend to be fairly salty. If the gargle has a higher salt concentration than your intrinsic salt concentration, it will tend to draw out some of the edema fluid from the mucosa of the throat. This will make SOME of your sore throat symptoms better. The relief is very real, but also tends to be short-lived, since the gargle has done nothing to remove the cause of the sore throat.
In some cases, gargling with salt water also has a cleansing action. If you are suffering from postnasal drainage due to a bacterial sinus infection or allergies, the mucus which drains from your nasal cavity is full of chemicals that tend to promote an inflammatory response. As this stuff drains down the back of your throat, it leaves a trail of inflamed tissues in its wake. Frequent gargling with salt water will help minimize this problem.
As with everything else in medicine, you can certainly overdo this one! Make the gargle salty enough, and you will dessicate the mucosa of the throat. This could lead to even greater irritation than what you started with!
I hope you feel better soon.
DONT TAKE THESE LOZENGES OR FANCY MAKE NAMES!!! just use the home remedies from above... the make-names soothe for the moment, like panadols etc do for headaches, but arent any good for your body - and dont cure the cause...
gargle with raw unpasteruzied apple cider vinegar, will kill all germs, even strep...i have done it, and yes, it works..do few times daily
gargle with water and some vinegar.
I always keep a bottle of Alkalol around to gargle with. It's an all natural mucolytic, which means it removes the mucus that often causes the pain.
It's available from just about any pharmacy and costs about $4 a bottle. It's more effective than salt water and you don't risk the chance of irritation.
Good luck and be well.
Kelley
My Patients ALWAYS ask me this.
If it is a virus, gargole with warm salt water. Hot chocoalte is very soothing.
Yogurt & other creamy food products help out a ton.
feel better soon!
Ease a sore throat and stop sinus drainage with 1 tsp vinegar in a glass of water,Gargle once a hour until cured. This works well
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