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5 Home Remedies For Sore Throat

Home Remedies For Sore Throat

[toc]Have you ever felt itching, uneasiness and sometimes pain too in your throat, nothing to worry about, and it is just a common problem that can occur to any anyone. This itchy and painful feeling on throat is termed as ‘sore throat’. There are numerous factors that can cause sore throat. Both bacteria and viruses can be responsible for sore throat. Generally sore throat is not a serious condition when happens for 4 or 5 days, but it can leads to some major problems if continued for several more days. 

Kids are more prone to sore throat due to weaker body resistance than adults. Sore throat is mainly caused due to fever, flu, common cold & cough or swelling, sometimes tonsils are also responsible for sore throat. Other reasons that can cause sore throat are pollution, heavy smokes in atmosphere, allergies and many more.

Normally sore throat is considered as common problem that can be healed automatically in some days. But if sore throat proceeds longer than that, it can be a signal for some disease like HIV, diphtheria and even heart problem. Among various medications available today, home remedies are still very useful in case of sore throat.


5 Various Home remedies For Sore Throat

Gargle

Gargling Reduce Sore Throat

Gargling is very effective in many mouth related problem like toothache, bleeding gums and sore throat. The main advantage of gargling is its easy availability in every household. Gargle can be done using hot water with salt, hot water with lemon & black salt and even you can gargle with Listerine too. For sore throat just take a glass full of hot water and add rock salt or normal salt in it and gargle 2-3 times a day. It will eliminate bacteria or viruses causing infection that leads to sore throat.


Garlic

Garlic Reduce Sore Throat

We all know that garlic is common but very effective home remedy for any kind bacterial or virus infection. It has tremendous medicinal properties like antibacterial, antibiotic and anti fungal. For sore throat treatment you can eat 2-3 cloves of garlic directly. You can also find garlic tablets too.


Chicken Or Tomato Soup

Chicken & Tomato Soup Reduce Sore Throat

In the list of long lasting home remedies it is another name that can be used for sore throat and some other common cold and cough. Chicken soup will give you relief from sore throat by soothing your throat.

Similarly tomato with its various properties can erase infection in order to provide you relief from sore throat, adding some black pepper into it can also act as an additional advantage.


Honey

Honey For Sore Throat

Honey is always considered as a true companion and essential item for any home. The various specialities of honey make it best home remedy for different purposes. Honey can be used with ginger or simply with plain water to get relief from sore throat. It will soothe the throat and provide relief from sore throat. You can also use honey with hot milk against sore throat.


Baking Soda With Lemon And Salt

Baking Soda With Lemon Reduce Sore Throat

Using baking soda mixed with lemon juice and water is very effective in case of sore throat. You can add some salt too for added advantage. Lemon has antibacterial and antiviral capability that will surely give you relief from sore throat. Similarly baking soda is a good soother that can also help in case of sore throat.

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