How to treat lump in the throat

The lump in her throat may occur if you choked. In cases where the throat remains a foreign body (fish bone, piece of food), in addition to feelings of discomfort appear increasing signs of swelling in the throat – the appearance of a lump, difficulty breathing, and sometimes suffocation. If you are choking and a likelihood of finding a foreign body in the throat or esophagus, you need to go to the hospital. The otolaryngologist will make the inspection of ENT-organs, upon detection of a bone or other object picks it up. If you suspect a foreign body in the esophagus is carried out fluoroscopy with contrast medium (barium). If the x-ray image confirms the presence of a foreign body in the esophagus, is an emergency fibroatheroma in which the extracted foreign objects.

The feeling of a lump in the throat can appear when you scratch in the throat or esophagus, i.e., choking on a bone, you can cause injury to the mucous membrane, but a foreign body on x-ray image is found. Such scratches do not require treatment and disappear on their own within 2-3 days.

Inflammatory diseases, polyps throat also cause a feeling of a lump appeared. In this case, for help you need to see a specialist – an otolaryngologist. This doctor will prescribe the necessary treatment and, if necessary, will conduct surgery for removal of adenoids, polyps, tumors.

Gastroezofagealny reflux causes inflammation of the esophagus, and in this regard, in the throat there is a feeling of discomfort, as if something interferes. Feeling of a lump can pass only with proper treatment of this disease. In the therapy of esophagitis include drugs that regulate the level of acidity in the stomach, suppressing excessive secretion of the glands. Sometimes reflux disease cause pathology associated with the violation of delchevalerie, then treatment requires a choleretic and other drugs. Only a doctor can carry out the necessary diagnosis and prescribe an effective treatment gastroezofagealnam reflux.

Nervous shock and experiences often cause unpleasant feeling of something foreign in the throat and a feeling of chest tightness. Because of nerve irritation there is a change in innervation and distortion of sensitivity and also raises the spasm. In this case, treatment is required sedatives. To choose the right dose of sedatives may be a doctor, sometimes it requires treatment with psychotropic drugs under medical supervision.

Problems associated with dysfunction of the thyroid gland, also often cause a feeling of a lump in the throat. This requires total examination of this body (ultrasound, blood tests for hormones, etc.) and treatment with hormones or iodine-containing drugs.