Coping with a sore throat is not an easy task. A store throat can be caused by a bacterial infection, which stems from flu-like symptoms - fever chills and aches. And when you are down with a sore th →

What Is Pharyngitis Pharyngitis is inflammation of the pharynx, which is in the back of the throat. It’s most often referred to simply as “sore throat.” Pharyngitis can also cause scratchiness in →

Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils. The tonsils are a pair of soft tissue masses located at the back of the mouth, with one on each side of the throat. The tonsils are glands that form par →

When you were a child and had a sore throat, a throat lozenge just seemed to erase the pain. But now, your sore, scratchy throat can?persist for days or weeks, no matter how you treat it. When your →

Sore Throats May Not Require Antibiotics Over the past few decades, we’ve seen a rise in bacteria capable of resisting our modern antibiotics. The result has been potentially dangerous and even de →