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GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease, aka heartburn): If your lower esophageal sphincter loosens, which can occur for a variety of reasons, including stress, medications, and food triggers, stomach acid can splash up your poor esophagus, which is NOT adapted to handle a liquid with the pH of battery acid. It actually worsened for a few weeks after I quit: my poor nerves were coming back to life, and the tissue was finally able to go about the work of healing itself. I smoked for many years-and always had a sore throat. If you smoke, obviously you’re exposing your throat to myriad inflammatory carcinogens on a daily basis, so, no surprise there. Neti pots and gargles go a long way in mitigating the effects of these irritants. Every time I visit my New York City my sore throat convinces me I’ve gotten sick-until I blow my nose and see the gray-black soot caught by my nasal hairs. Pollution/particulate: City living, and living near highways or industry can increase your chances of sore throat, as the “ring of fire” gets chronically activated in its attempts to neutralize chemical and physical threats from air pollution. I have my clients track this symptom during the re-challenge phase of elimination diets. I had a sore throat every morning after my precious wheat toast for about 12 years, until I finally wised up. Traditional Medicinals’ Throat Coat tea is always a winner! Humidifiers help tremendously.įood sensitivities & allergies: Sore throat immediately after eating food can indicate an intolerance (or true allergy). Make sure you are properly hydrated (so many of us are not, especially in fall and winter!), and opt for moistening remedies like licorice tea, cold marshmallow root infusions, slippery elm, and aloe juice.

The aforementioned mouth breathing is also a major contributor to dryness. Nighttime congestion also causes mouth breathing, which is terribly vexing for all the tissues in the mouth and throat.ĭryness: Sore throats that occur in dry environments, such as desert or mountainous areas, and indoors in winter when buildings are heated, make you more susceptible to any other factors that want to get at your throat. This can be related to allergies, or other chronic inflammation in the sinuses, such as fungal infection. Post-Nasal Drip: Do you wake with a sore throat? Irritative mucus can drip into the back of the throat, especially at night. There are so many effective natural supports for allergy: Farmacopia’s Allergy Alert Tincture gets the job done for many of my clients, without the cognitive and overly-drying side effects of conventional OTC and pharmaceutical meds.

Both can be accompanied by fever and general malaise. Indeed many sore throats are caused by viruses and, less commonly, by bacteria. Most of us associate sore throats with getting sick, or being sick. So let’s take a deeper look at sore throat: Infectious sore throat That way, I have the best shot at addressing it. Now, instead of obsessively swallowing and worrying, swallowing and worrying, I note the sensation and try to figure out what causes might be contributing right now. This frequent-and vexing-symptom led me to study the causes and contributing factors to sore throat. It took me a long time to realize that not every sharp swallow meant I was getting sick. What we perceive as our “throat” is dynamic area influenced by such diverse factors as our environment, the use of our vocal cords, the state of our sinuses and Eustachian tubes, and the upper gastrointestinal tract.

It also means that when this tissue is in *activated fighting* mode, inflammation, soreness, and overt pain can arise as it works to protect us.īut what we call a “sore throat” can arise for a number of reasons. This body-smart adaptation allows us to mount an immune response at the periphery of the body and (hopefully) keep viruses, bacteria, and molds at bay. I call the back of the throat the “ring of fire”: a dense clustering of lymphatic tissue. Since the mouth and pharynx comprise the opening of the digestive AND the respiratory system, it makes sense we would have a strongly defended gateway there.