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| Originally Posted by Scared_and_Confused Well I have a very bad sore throat right now.... I can barely talk! I have had this for three days, I have a doctors appointment on wednesday to see if I have strep (which I get atleast once a year) and to get on antibiotics. But till then, I want it to stop hurting so badly! I have tried the warm salt water thing, the honey in tea, cough syrup, throat spray, and cough drops, and it seems it is hurting more now than before! Does anyone have any home remedies that help with the irritation???  |
just to deal aleviate the pain symptom you can find a numbing agent such as orajel teething gel for babies. It tastes good and does the job of numbing everything that touches it.
Don't use anything that has alcohol in it on your throat. that will hurt the sore areas.
You could try gargling with a mouthful of equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water. Hydrogen peroxide is safe to gargle with or to use as a moutwash, but definitely avoid swallowing it straight. This would help your body fight the infection, but it might burn a bit. Afterwards, however, you can apply the oragel to your throat with a cotton swab. (Don't swallow hydrogen peroxide because your stomach acid is approximately 12 molar Hydrochloric Acid and I think a huge amount of hydrogen peroxide would cause some mild pain if you swallowed a bunch of it.)
Other things I would do even though I don't know how they will impact your symptoms:
first of all remove all dairy products from your diet until you get antibiotics. Make sure you are taking vitamins. Some people refer to garlic as the poor man's penicillin. You can try crushing garlic gloves and swallowing them. Or even dicing them up and swallowing them. (as you would with an antibiotic pill) No need to gargle the garlic. I think raw garlic is more potent for the antibiotic effect and I don't know if cooked garlic will work the same. If you can take more Zinc and B-complex vitamins that will help your body to deal with sickness in general. Avoid alcoholic beverages until you are well again (alcohol depletes vitamins and minerals and dehydrates the body). Drink lots of water, in a tall glass or in tea or even just plain hot water in a coffee cup. Increasing the clear fluids will help your body to get rid of any waste that is in your blood. It's sort of like fighting a fire. When you are sick, your white blood cells do their best to attack the invaders and encapsulate the infection, then they get filtered out of your bloodstream, but the best way to get the debris OUT of your body is to increase fluids. cut back on sugar and increase vegetables in your diet.meat is fine. just avoid too much meat when you are sick, it takes too much energy to digest a lot of protein.
Strep is a bacterial infection and strep bacteria is on just about all surfaces you encounter every day. Keeping up a habit of washing your hands before touching food you are preparing or about to eat is very important. Also keeping your doorknobs clean, and cleaning other things that you touch regularly, even your tv remote and computer keyboard, your car keys and your toothbrush, etc...all that stuff should be kept clean. If you get strep every year, it's a sign that you are not keeping your house clean and if your house is spotless and clutter free, then it likely that little things like your kitchen sponge or your toothbrush are not replaced often enough or merely not disinfected properly.
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