Home remedies · Throat, pharynx & cough
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Suck ice cubes, drink cold water or eat an ice cream, whenever it feels good.
Cold briefly numbs the irritated lining and eases the pain on swallowing.
The old advice that cold makes a throat worse has no basis — but cold does not heal anything either.
No restriction; if warmth feels better, take warmth. Both are allowed.
Get seen at once: severe one-sided pain with high fever, trouble swallowing your own saliva, a muffled voice or breathlessness. Likewise hoarseness lasting beyond three weeks, and coughing blood. In children also drooling and sitting with the chin pushed forward.