What would you do if you have a sore in your throat, or have a pharyngitis?

If no serious temperature, the usual treatment is rest, fluids, hot tea with honey and lemon and sucking on throat lozenges or hard candy.

For mild aches and pains a low dose mild over-the-counter pain meds, like aspirin, ibuprofen, or acetaminophen.

If the pain is really bad and you have trouble swallowing, you might have strep throat and need to see your physician.

< Home Remedy Lady Here: There are lots of wonderful home remedies that I’d try before I’d go to the doc. I’ve had too many doctor appointments where I was sent home with a “sorry, it’s a virus and there’s nothing we can do for that.” So if my home remedies don’t work first, THEN I go to the doctor.

Here are a few of the things I’ve successfully used: I started with gargling with a quality colloidal silver in water swallowing the rest of it in sips. 15 minutes later I upgraded to trace minerals in water, and again gargled, swallowing the rest of it in sips. I finished up with raw, unfiltered and organic apple cider vinegar diluted in a glass of water, and again sipped it after. The result was dramatic and within an hour or two.

Were I you, I’d try @snowberry‘s cheap, perfectly reasonable, advice ASAP.

I would not suggest colloidal silver, but occasionally gargling with salt water or apple cider vinegar might do some good.

It’s unclear from the way you worded your question whether you “have a sore throat”, which is what we usually say when we’re getting sick, or you “have a sore in your throat”, which is the kind of thing one might say if their case of chicken pox is very bad (it suggests a rash). If the latter, see a doctor.

Anecdotal, @dappled_leaves, but they make/made Bandaids with colloidal silver that were amazing. I never had a wound heal so quickly. I wouldn’t ingest it on a regular basis, but I’d be willing to try it for a sore throat.

@ibstubro The placebo effect is a real thing. If it works for you, that’s great.

@dappled_leaves: “pharyngitis” usually means a garden-variety sore throat.

I bought the Bandaids because they were on sale, @dappled_leaves. Placebo effect has nothing to do with it. I buy ‘healthy’ or innovative stuff all the time if it’s discounted. I don’t have expectations other than “it works/keep it, doesn’t work/pitch it.” Usually I only pay attention to the actual product and its claims after-the-fact.

The Mayo Clinic on Complementary and alternative medicine. Which, no doubt, you’ll find a spurious link.

@ibstubro The link I posted above is also from the Mayo Clinic. I’m glad you find them reputable.

@ibstubro You can talk until you’ve lost your voice to these folks. If they don’t want to believe it, they simply won’t, and they’ll go to great lengths to keep other people from it.

Just for the record, colloidal silver is great if you don’t use it EVERY DAY like that guy who turned blue. When I used it on my daughter whose tonsils had swollen to where she only had a tiny hole to breathe from, it began the healing process, and lessened the pain so she could start to swallow.

I’ve also used it to cure pink eye on several occasions. One drop in each eye and washing the face usually is all that’s needed.

In colloidal silver, you want a quality product with molecule size bits of silver in solution. The high quality stuff is gold in color. It’s sensitive to heat and light, so protect it.

Even in the developed world however, evidence-based medicine is not universally used in clinical practice; for example, a 2007 survey of literature reviews found that about 49% of the interventions lacked sufficient evidence to support either benefit or harm.

What does sore in your throat mean? Can you see blisters in your throat? Or, you mean your throat hurts?

If I had a temperature I would go to the doctor for a throat culture. If it lasts longer than three days I would go to the doctor for a throat culture.

Strep throat has to be treated with antibiotics or you risk rheumative fever or rheumatic heart disease. Strep can still be treated with the old fashioned, inexpensive, penicillins. Strep usually is very painful to swallow, fever, and no congestion, and the throat pain persist more than three days.

A sore throat that is the beginning of a cold usually is painful, but not much trouble swallowing, no fever or very very slight rise in temperature, and the sore throat goes away in about 48 hours, you have a lull in feeling sick, and then 6–12 hours oater you get congested. A cold doesn’t need any treatment, but you can use Chloraceptic spray for your throat pain, and Tylenol or ibuprofen, and later when the congestion starts a decongestant antihistimine combo pill. Ibuprofen can also be used during the day fir overall feeling badly, but you shouldn’t need more than 400mg.

Another cause for a very bad, lasting more than three days, sore throat, is mononucleosis. That is diagnosed with a blood test.

FYI, you can use the throat spray for any of the illnesses that cause throat pain.

That’s funny, I have laryngitis (Apple auto correct is spelling it this way so I’m going with it) at the moment. I lost my voice on Saturday and it’s still gone. I figure that if its not better in the next 2 days I’ll just go to the ER, since my doctors office is 60 miles away.

Laryngitis usually cures itself. Just rest your voice. No talking.

It hurts because I had too much spicy foods& talked too much, I guess.