What do you eat when your throat hurts?

If you’ve ever had a sore throat, you know how painful it can be. It feels like someone has taken sandpaper and scraped the entire length of your esophagus.

But fear not! We have some food suggestions that will soothe your irritated throat and make swallowing less painful.

The Importance of Eating Carefully When Your Throat Hurts

When you have a sore throat, anything – including air – passing through your throats makes it hurt even more. And, since eating is essential for maintaining energy levels and pain relief, choosing appropriate foods is crucial.

To avoid further irritation or choking while eating;

  • Drink lots of water (hydration helps to thin mucus, reduce inflammation by slightly cooling down the affected area)

  • Avoid acidic drinks like orange juice as they might cause irritation on an already inflamed area

  • Choose soft foods such as broths, mashed potatoes or fish

  • Slowly chew thoroughly while taking small bites

Now let’s get into our suggestions!

Food options that provide Pain Relief

  1. Warm Soups

Soups are often something that many people assume one would consume when feeling ill; however soups actually convey warmth which provides temporary relief in preventing tightening of chest muscles during breathing. Consuming warm broth from chicken soup also allows unnecessary congestion caught within lungs causing discomfort to be loosened up.

  1. Ice Cream

Who doesn’t love ice cream? While most tend towards turning away from cold things because they would icily inflict trauma upon their already irritate throats —— surprisingly enough——ice cream goes down easy! As crazy (or awesome!) it sounds,
the smooth texture provides ease with every bit increasing coolness allowing for satisfaction based comfort alongside rapid soothing actions made possible by its curing powers !

  1. Smoothies/ Blended Drinks

In addition to being nutritious whilst packing anti-inflammatory properties, smoothies are also an excellent remedy for sore throats. Their coolness &h better yet, the fact that they are a liquid escape any exertion of effort in chewing allowing no physical energy to be used leaving all discomfortual pressure with inflammation ultimately reduced!

  1. Popsicles

Pain relief has never been so delicious! Similar to ice cream, cold treats like fruit-based popsicles numb sore areas—such as your throat—by decreasing inflammation which come from A LOT OF SUGAR

Food options that reduce Inflammation

  1. Saltwater Gargles

Gargling warm salt water not only brings temporary neutralization towards germs and provides comfort through it’s temperature — but it is also able to flush out bacteria from one’s mouth before any dangerous symptoms occur!

  1. Honey Tea

Treat yourself by drinking hot tea sweetened up with honey 🍯 which can act as natural antibiotic against inflamed tissue promoting healing furthermore providing painlessly smooth consumption!

  1. Ginger Tea

Crushed ginger added into tea contributes even stronger anti-inflammatory properties working incredibly well on reducing swelling on irritated skin- in this case our raw …sloppy… inflamed throat…

Food Not Good For The Throat

When we’re consumed by minor illness or ailment; food making things worse shouldn’t be somewhere where someone wants want their mind inclined towards at all.

Here comes the ‘DO NOT’ LIST, foods you should avoid when dealing with upset throats:

1) Alcohol (increased dryness of throat)

2) Spicy Foods(◡‿◡✿)

3) Citrus fruits (plenty of acid left unchecked!!)

Do yourself a favor & watch-out what’s goes down your precious throat for beneficial improvement rather than, gasp!!! Shocking weakness towards your very own person-hood.!.

Wrapping Up

There you have it, a list of foods that will help alleviate your sore throat. If nothing else, at least try some honey tea to soothe the area and feel better faster. But more than anything persistently focus on a good nights rest and staying hydrated!

Take care of yourself 🙂 !

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