How to relieve a sore throat with a sore throat at home in a child

Complete relief of a sore throat with a sore throat can only be temporarily achieved with the help of strong painkillers based on lidocaine, benzocaine or other anesthetics. Their effect lasts several hours, during which the patient will not feel pain at all. Moreover, such products are relatively safe, since they are used only for local treatment of inflamed areas and penetrate into the blood in very small quantities. Below we will list the means that can be used to relieve a sore throat with a sore throat.

Approximately the same effect can be achieved with the help of strong systemic painkillers, including those used to reduce fever. However, their use is less desirable due to the greater likelihood of side effects.

In many cases, complete anesthesia is not required, since the sensations themselves are not too strong and the patient only needs to slightly relieve the pain in the throat. For this purpose, it is safer and more rational to use anti-inflammatory drugs in the form of sprays, gargling solutions and lozenges. They will not completely relieve the pain, but they will reduce it to such an extent that the patient can eat, talk and rest normally.

Remedies to eliminate and relieve sore throat

To completely relieve a sore throat, the following remedies are used in ENT practice:

Teraflu-Lar spray, lozenges and gargling solution. From the point of view of pain relief, they are analogues of lidocaine solution, since they contain lidocaine itself. Due to this, with their help you can quickly and effectively relieve a sore throat for 1-2 hours. In addition to lidocaine, all forms of the drug contain benzoxonium chloride - a highly effective local antibacterial drug, which, although it does not suppress the infection that caused the sore throat, inhibits its spread in the mouth and throat;
Hexoral Tabs are lozenges containing benzocaine as an analgesic component and chlorhexidine as an antimicrobial agent. The tablets allow you to numb the throat for 1-2 hours, after which the next tablet should be dissolved and sensations return. It is unacceptable to take more than 8 tablets per day;
Sucking tablets Grammidin Neo with anesthetic. Contains local antibiotic gramicidin C and analgesic component oxybuprocaine;
Strepsils Plus tablets and spray containing lidocaine;
A solution of lidocaine with a concentration of 2%, of all the drugs used for sore throat, is the most effective and, in fact, the best pain reliever. It is sold in pharmacies already prepared, or, if necessary, a more concentrated drug is purchased and diluted with water until the desired concentration is obtained. It can be sold under different names - Lycaine, Lidocaine-Bufus, Lidocaine hydrochloride, available in the form of a solution or a ready-to-spray spray in a bottle;
Anti-Angin Formula in the form of tablets and spray contains tetracaine and provides an analgesic effect typical of drugs in this group.

Lidocaine in the form of a spray for anesthesia of inflamed and injured tissues

Due to the content of powerful anesthetics (even in small concentrations), these drugs allow you to temporarily completely eliminate all the sensations that arise in the throat due to inflammation of the tonsils. As a rule, their analgesic effect lasts 1-2 hours, which is enough for eating or for the patient to fall asleep. In any case, after the end of the effect, the drug can be used again if the instructions for use allow it.

In general, when using all these products, you must strictly follow the instructions for use, since all of them can cause unwanted side effects and also have age restrictions.

As a rule, it is recommended to use such drugs only at the peak of the disease, when the pain in the throat is most severe and prevents the patient from swallowing food and sleeping normally. If your throat hurts, but the pain itself is tolerable, or you just feel itchy, it’s safer to use remedies designed to soften such sensations without eliminating them altogether, but also without causing unwanted side effects.

How can you relieve a child's sore throat?

The annual cold season is always very exciting for every mother.
If preventative measures do not work and the child catches a cold or a more serious illness, the first step is to go to the doctor or call him at home. But in matters of treatment, every mother still needs to be literate. For example, it wouldn’t hurt to know how to soothe a child’s throat with a sore throat at home. We, adults, have long known that throat diseases can be accompanied not only by a sore throat, but also by acute pain - the inability to swallow and speak. These symptoms are often found in children.

What can be used for pain relief and how to use these remedies, taking into account age? In my practice, my daughter had a sore throat once, but there were also pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and ARVI. I was not lazy and at one time studied the issue of anesthesia from various sources, including pediatricians.

Systemic painkillers

You can also almost completely relieve a sore throat by using the following remedies, depending on its strength:

Paracetamol and Efferalgan are effective for mild to moderate pain, allowing them to be relieved for 4-5 hours;
Nurofen - the effect is approximately similar to Paracetamol, but has a longer effect - up to 8 hours;
Aspirin and Analgin are already more powerful drugs with a more pronounced potency, while causing more severe side effects (sometimes deadly);
Ketanov, Ketorol and similar drugs that allow you to completely anesthetize your throat. Their specific feature is that they are sold only with a doctor’s prescription.

When taking Nurofen, along with a decrease in temperature, a decrease in sore throat is also felt

As a rule, patients with sore throat have to take antipyretics such as Nurofen and Paracetamol, which, in parallel with the decrease in temperature, also relieve sore throat. Since the peak of pain coincides with the peak of fever, in many cases patients do not have to take other medications: when using the same Nurofen, the patient normally tolerates muted pain, and when the temperature subsides and there is no need to drink Nurofen or Paracetamol, the pain in the tonsils also subsides.

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Powerful painkillers like Ketanov are almost never used for angina due to possible severe side effects. It is much safer to relieve pain with local anesthetics.

Drugs and folk remedies to relieve pain with sore throat

To relieve sore throat, you can use products based on anti-inflammatory components. They help reduce inflammation, making severe sore throat lessen and more tolerable. Such means include:

Tantum Verde and Tantum Verde Forte in the form of solution, tablets and spray. The drug contains benzydamine hydrochloride, a powerful non-steroidal anti-inflammatory component that can significantly relieve severe sore throat, and if it is minor, then temporarily remove it altogether;
Tenflex is an analogue of Tantum Verde, but is available only in the form of a spray and solution for gargling;
Oralcept is an analogue of Tantum Verde, produced only in the form of a spray and intended only for spraying it into the throat.

Oralcept is notable for being approved for use in children aged three years and older.

The manufacturer's description of all these products states that they are intended to relieve mild or moderate sore throat. That is, it is impossible to completely anesthetize the throat with their help.

It is also useful to gargle with various solutions to reduce sore throat. Decoctions of various herbs and herbal preparations that have an anti-inflammatory effect are suitable for this: chamomile, calendula, sage, oak bark. However, even a simple saline solution will provide some pain relief. The individual articles list:

Herbs for making gargles for sore throats;
All the products used to prepare such solutions...

It is important to remember that when you have a sore throat, you need to gargle carefully and no more than 4-5 times a day. If you do this more often, due to constant vibrations, the tonsils will take longer to heal, therefore, the pain in the throat will persist for a longer period.

Traditional medicine will help with sore throat

The most effective and easiest to prepare are rinsing or drinking products. As a rule, folk remedies are considered completely safe.

But before relieving pain with a specific remedy, you need to be sure that the patient is not allergic to the ingredients in the chosen recipe.

It’s also worth mentioning that you can quickly remove soreness and swelling by using the combined rinsing technique. In this case, an alternation of 2–3 solutions is implied. After using one of them, the second is applied approximately 30 minutes later.

9 best recipes

Mix water and Kalanchoe juice in equal proportions. Use at least 4 times at 30 minute intervals.
Gargle with a solution prepared from a glass of hot water and 1 tsp. lemon juice.
Boil sage (a teaspoon) with a glass of hot water for 10 minutes. Strain, and when it cools a little, add honey to taste. Rinsing with this solution should be done approximately every 2.5 hours.
Make a saline solution for rinsing from a glass of warm water, 1 tsp. salt and a few drops of iodine. However, before carrying out this procedure for the first time, you need to make sure that there are no diseases of the thyroid gland.
Another option for rinse can be made from beets and vinegar. To make it, you need to grate medium-sized beets and add 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Then you need to wait until the juice appears and squeeze it out. You need to gargle with this remedy every hour.
Pour a teaspoon of chamomile flowers into a glass of boiling water. You need to drink this tea warm, after adding a teaspoon of honey.
Add 1 tsp to half a glass of freshly squeezed carrot juice. honey You need to drink this juice twice a day in small sips.
You can gargle with half a glass of water and a teaspoon of calendula tincture.
A remedy for which you need to mix the white of a chicken egg, a glass of warm water, 1 teaspoon of salt and the same amount of soda will help you cope with even sharp painful sensations. You need to gargle every 20 minutes. However, it must be taken into account that the protein foams in this case. Therefore, it will be easier to perform the procedure by putting a small amount of solution into your mouth.

In this video, Veniamin Zuev will talk about herbs that will help relieve a sore throat:

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How to numb a child's throat with a sore throat?

For children, the same drugs are used as for adults, but taking into account the age restrictions indicated for each medicine. For example, Theraflu Lar can only be given to children over 4 years old, Strepsils - only over 12 years old. Therefore, from the above remedies, a child can relieve a sore throat with the following drugs:

At the age of one to three years, you can use Lidocaine in the form of a spray to spray into the throat, or in the form of a solution when a tampon is moistened with it and the surface of the tonsils is blotted;
At the age of 3 to 4 years, a solution of Lidocaine and Oralcept can be used;
Children from 4 to 5 years old can use Lidocaine, Oralcept and Anti-Angin Formula;
Children from 5 to 12 years old can use Lidocaine, Oralcept, AntiAngin Formula and Theraflu Lar, and those children who can gargle and rinse their throats on their own can gargle with various herbs and medications;
Over 12 years of age, a child can use all products that are used by adults.

Theraflu Lar tablets are convenient to give to children due to their pleasant orange taste.

When choosing the form of the drug, it is worth considering that it is most convenient for preschool children to spray a spray into the throat. This is safe, since the child will not swallow the product, and ensures that the tonsils are treated with the drug. On the contrary, if a small child receives a sucking tablet, he can easily swallow or chew it, and the desired result will not be obtained. Also, not all young children know how to gargle, and if you try to force a child to do this, he may choke on the solution.

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For children

Choosing a spray to relieve sore throat in children is difficult. With the exception of Theraflu Lar, all other sprays have strict age restrictions. Theraflu can be used to treat the throat of a child over 4 years old.

With the strictest supervision by the attending physician, drugs in the form of sprays are used for children from 3 years of age, unless the instructions indicate age restrictions. Infants are not able to follow adult commands; there is a risk that the child will choke or suffocate. The use of topical throat medications is not recommended for them.

Sprays can be used strictly for treating children who understand commands like “hold your breath.” At the moment of delay, you need to spray the liquid on the sore throat. Injecting during breathing may cause spasm of the larynx, which will impair the passage of air in the respiratory tract.

If there are doubts about the correct choice of drug or method of application, it is better to spray the medicine on the inner surface of the child’s cheek.

Overdose in children should not be allowed. Long-term treatment also has a bad effect on the child’s condition. If the anesthetic is used over a long period of time, it may cause loss of sensation in the upper part of the digestive tract.

Using strong medications can harm your baby. Tantum Verde and Oralcept, for example, lightly numb the affected area without causing harm or side effects.

There are other sprays for treating a child:

Aqualor;
Maxicold Lore;
Octenisept;
Lugol;
Derinat;
Grippferon;
Miramistin.

Let's look at each of them in more detail.

Aqualor

According to the instructions, it is recommended for the treatment of children from 6 months. Has no obvious side effects. Be sure to consult a doctor before use. Do not use in children; laryngospasm may occur.

Maxicold Lore

Spray based on hexethidine. No side effects identified. Contains ethanol. A reaction to this component is possible. You need to spray while holding your breath while inhaling. Very young children will not be able to do this. The drug is contraindicated for them.

Octenisept

Octanisept is one of the effective medicines. The problem is caused by its bitter, unpleasant taste. Children cannot stand this taste.

Lugol

Probably the most popular medicine for sore throats is Lugol's. This is a mixture of iodine and glycerin, which disinfects the affected area, promoting rapid recovery.

Derinat

Derinat is indicated for use in children over 2 years of age.

You can spray it:

Children aged 2 years – 1 spray at a time;
3-10 years – 2 sprays;
10 years and older - adult dosage.

Depending on the stage of the disease, you can use the drug from 4 to 15 times per day. During the severe stage - this is the onset of the disease after the incubation period, you need to irrigate the throat more often - 10-15 times a day.

As the severity of symptoms decreases, this amount decreases to 4 times a day.

The drug is used for sore throat, pharyngitis, and ARVI diseases. It relieves pain, disinfects the throat, eliminating pathogens, and helps increase local immunity.

Grippferon

The spray is made on the basis of interferon. Helps improve the immune response of the affected area. It has no side effects, with the exception of hypersensitivity to the components. There are no age restrictions, so you can use it after your doctor’s recommendations at any age.

What remedies do not allow you to relieve pain during illness?

There are also a number of drugs on sale that are positioned as a means to relieve sore throats and even to treat sore throats, but which will not give a pronounced analgesic result, or their effect is very weak, weaker than that of the drugs listed above. These include:

Septolete, Septolete D and Septolete Total - these products contain benzydamine hydrochloride as an active ingredient, which has a local antibacterial effect, but does not relieve inflammation and does not have an anesthetic effect;
Stopangin - similarly, does not have an analgesic or anti-inflammatory effect, since its active ingredient is hexetidine, an antimicrobial component;
Hexoral solution is an analogue of Stopangin;
Simple Strepsils, which does not contain anesthetics;
Lugol's solution, which also only has a local antibacterial effect...

…and others. Therefore, before purchasing a product, you need to look at the composition and look for either anesthetic or anti-inflammatory components in it.

Strepsils has some analgesic effect due to levomenthol, however, compared to the effect of Strepsils Plus, it has a very weak effect.

It is believed that folk remedies such as honey, propolis, turmeric and others help to relieve sore throat to some extent. However, even when their effect is manifested, the analgesic effect is much less pronounced than when using medications. In addition, some of them are unsafe.

Safety in sore throat

It is important to remember that no products should be applied to inflamed tonsils. With this application, the tonsils hurt even more and there is a risk of injuring them.

For example, very often when Lugol's solution is applied to the tonsils, cracks appear here and bleeding begins, and then parents do not know how to stop the blood flowing from the child's throat. Moreover, all drugs in the forms of sprays, solutions and lozenges do not require spreading on the tonsils and are more preferable.

In addition, you should not apply products that may be dangerous to your tonsils: hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, vodka, vinegar and the like. Such substances can cause tissue burns and further increase pain.

Further, you should not smear your tonsils with honey, milk or any squeezes from berries or fruits. The fact is that the infection that causes sore throat is bacterial, and such products contain a large amount of sugars, which bacteria can use as a food source. As a result, the use of such drugs to relieve a sore throat with a sore throat can give the opposite result: the pain not only will not ease, but will also intensify due to the development of infection in the nutrient medium.

In general, with a sore throat, the patient does not need to put anything into the patient’s throat or touch his tonsils. With proper treatment, the disease goes away completely and without complications without smearing the tonsils with anything, without removing ulcers and without any complex procedures.

If you have a sore throat, you need to eat soft, pureed foods that have minimal impact on the tonsils when they come into contact with them. Apples, poorly chewed bread, and rough fruits only intensify the pain and negate other efforts to eliminate it.

Finally, when you have a sore throat, you should not try to relieve a sore throat by applying a compress to it. An increase in temperature in the tissues promotes the development of a bacterial infection, and here you can also get the opposite of the desired effect: instead of easing, the pain will even intensify.

Summary

To relieve a sore throat with a sore throat, you must either use local anesthetics and drugs based on them (lidocaine, tetracaine, benzocaine), or general painkillers - Nurofen, Paracetamol, Efferalgan, Aspirin, Analgin and others;
To relieve pain, you can also use anti-inflammatory drugs such as Tantum Verde, Strepsils, Theraflu Lar and similar ones;
Gargling with decoctions of herbs that have an anti-inflammatory effect - chamomile, calendula, oak bark - helps to relieve pain;
All products must be used in strict accordance with the instructions and as directed by a doctor to avoid the development of side effects.

Precautionary measures

When treating sore throat, it is important to observe the dosage of analgesics. It is forbidden to lubricate inflamed tonsils with medications, as this can lead to damage to soft tissues.

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In the acute period of the pathology, it is recommended to reduce the consumption of foods containing sugar. In addition, if the tonsils are inflamed, it is forbidden to apply warm compresses to the throat.

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