I feel a foreign body in my throat, but it's okay to eat and drink water. How is it that my throat seems to have phlegm?

In daily life, some people often encounter the situation that they feel a foreign body in their throat, but they can eat and drink water. The noise seems to have phlegm, but what's wrong with it? In fact, this symptom is very common in life, because there are many reasons for foreign bodies in the throat. Let's take a look at it together, which may be helpful to your daily health care.

There are symptoms of foreign body sensation in the throat, which should be pharyngeal paraesthesia. Subjectively, the patient feels that there are foreign bodies, ants walking and stuffy in his throat, or there seems to be leaves, hair, tumors and sputum sticking. So I kept making a "squeaky" sound and cleaning my throat, but nothing was actually cleaned up, sometimes I just spit out sputum, but these foreign body feelings were still there. It brings painful experience to many patients, and some patients cause anxiety because they often do this.

There are many reasons for pharyngeal paraesthesia. Firstly, there are non-organic diseases, such as pharyngeal neurosis, hysteria, cancer phobia, anxiety, schizophrenia, endocrine dysfunction, climacteric syndrome, hypothyroidism, etc. In Chinese medicine, there is a relatively vivid name of "Mei He Qi", and in western medicine, it is "pharynx ball". In particular, there are many female patients aged 3-4, and now they are cautious and sensitive.

symptoms such as nausea and cough will also appear in the morning. It is mainly caused by secretion and hypertrophy of lymph follicles.

reflux esophagitis. Many patients thought they had pharyngitis at the beginning of these symptoms, but later found that the treatment effect was not obvious according to pharyngitis, so they came to the gastroenterology clinic for treatment. Through gastroscopy, it can be found that most patients have traces of gastric acid burning in their esophagus and pharynx, but a few patients have no obvious abnormal manifestations. Reflux esophagitis is mainly caused by gastric ulcer, atrophic gastritis, cardia inflammation and other diseases, which causes gastric acid to burn the throat along the esophagus, causing foreign body sensation in the throat, always feeling phlegm and other abnormal conditions, and even swallowing abnormalities in severe cases.

In order to prevent this symptom, readers and friends are advised not to eat spicy food such as pepper and garlic in their diet at ordinary times, so as not to further stimulate the throat and aggravate the illness. Quit smoking and drinking, because smoking and alcohol can stimulate the increase of gastric acid secretion, reduce the pressure of lower esophageal sphincter to relax it, which will aggravate the symptoms of acid reflux and worsen the condition of pharynx.

Besides, try not to eat too much at night. When you sleep at night, try to pad your upper body higher to prevent acid reflux. You can take a walk after meals to promote the maintenance of gastrointestinal peristalsis. Keep a cheerful mood and avoid getting angry. If the foreign body sensation in the pharynx is serious and dysphagia occurs, you must go to the hospital in time to be alert to the occurrence of esophageal cancer.

The above has told us some daily health care methods for throat discomfort, which are very practical health knowledge for each of our friends. Because I feel a foreign body in my throat, it's okay to eat and drink water, and the noise seems to have phlegm, which many people have experienced. The data tells us that there are many causes of this symptom, mainly non-organic diseases, such as pharyngeal neurosis, hysteria, fear of cancer, etc. In addition, the symptoms of nausea and cough in the morning are related to secretions, hypertrophy of lymph follicles, and reflux esophagitis.