Laryngitis Remedies
Home Remedies for Laryngitis Treatment
Laryngitis remedies can give relief for this troublesome condition. Get your voice back with laryngitis home remedies from your kitchen cupboard. When you have no voice at all or when the voice you do have sounds more like a frog croaking you want relief.
What Are the Symptoms of Laryngitis?
Laryngitis occurs when the voice box or larynx is inflamed. It is usually not a serious condition and it rarely lasts for more than seven days. Is laryngitis contagious? No it isn't but the illness that caused it to develop may be.
There are many possible causes of acute laryngitis. Some of these are:
What are the Best Laryngitis Remedies?One of the best laryngitis remedies is to not even try to talk. Give your vocal cords a rest. If you simply must say something, carry a notepad and pen with you and write a note. Of course, this will not work if you have very young children but do try to keep talking to a minimum. Never try to raise your voice.
Another laryngitis home remedy is to breath in steam. Heat some water until it is very hot and producing steam. Remove it from the heat source, bend over it with a towel over your head like a tent. Breath the steam until the water cools. Repeat this several times a day. You can also turn on the shower to very hot and let the bathroom fill with steam. Sit and breath in the steam for 15 to 20 minutes.
Avoid situations where you’ll be around smokers or chemical fumes and if you are the one who smokes, stop or cut it down to an absolute minimum. Chewing a nicotine gum or sucking on a nicotine lozenge will keep you from feeling too uncomfortable from nicotine withdrawal. Use over-the-counter pain relievers or sore throat lozenges to help ease the pain.
Herbal Laryngitis RemediesSipping a hot herbal tea is very soothing and can help reduce the inflammation. Make a tea with fresh eucalyptus leaves. Chamomile tea and peppermint tea are also good. Make a tea with ginger root. Just place a few slices of fresh ginger root in a pan of hot water and let it steep for 15 to 20 minutes. Strain it and drink it as hot as you can stand it. Reheat if necessary. See the Health Benefits of Ginger. Drinking a cup of green tea several times a day is also a good laryngitis treatment. Green tea reduces inflammation and is an antiviral and antioxidant.
Remember laryngitis seldom lasts more than seven days. If you still have laryngitis after a week, you should see your doctor.
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Other than losing your voice or being hoarse you may have: