What should I do if I have a foreign body sensation in my throat?

I can feel a foreign body in my throat. The method is to find a towel, put it in the washbasin, and then pour a certain amount of warm water into the washbasin, which should be a little warmer and not too cold (if it is boiled water, pour some cold water to neutralize the temperature), then take the towel out and wring it out, wrap it around the neck as much as possible while it is hot, and gently press the towel to make it stick to the skin around the neck as much as possible.

This lasts for half a minute to one minute, then put the towel back into the washbasin to get wet, then take it out and wring it out and apply it again. Repeat this several times, usually about 15 minutes, once in the morning and once in the evening when washing your face. The reason why this method is adopted is that the hot towel contains yang, which can warm the throat by sticking to the skin in front of the neck, and continuous hot compress is conducive to the gradual spread of yang to the depths of the throat.

Where the yang is warm, qi and blood run faster. If the neck keeps warm, the qi and blood in the throat meridians will flow faster. The foreign body sensation in the pharynx often comes from the slow or poor flow of qi and blood in the meridians of the throat, so when the neck is continuously hot-compressed with a hot towel, the foreign body sensation in the pharynx will be alleviated with the acceleration of the flow of qi and blood in the meridians of the throat.

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Tian, director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, replied: There are many reasons for foreign body sensation in the pharynx. Chronic pharyngitis, chronic tonsillitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, throat and gastroesophageal reflux, chronic gastritis, esophagitis and swallowing dysfunction may all cause foreign body sensation in the pharynx.

If there is blood, epiglottis or glottic tumor, upper esophageal or tracheopulmonary tumor should be excluded. The patient can be diagnosed by blood routine, coagulation picture, fibrolaryngoscope, swallowing function examination, gastroscopy or fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

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