is gargleing warm salt water good for my health?because i have a sore throat.?

Answer 1

Salty warm water can help and here is the reason

Sore throats are sore due to inflammation. Usually, the inflammation is due to a viral or bacterial infection (the common cold, and strep throat, are examples of each). However, sore throat may also be related to allergies or physical injury to the throat. In each case, an inflammatory response has been triggered. Pain, swelling and an itchy or irritated sensation are the common symptoms of this inflammatory response.

The medical term for swelling is edema. As part of the inflammatory response, there is an increase in the water content of the involved tissues. With respect to sore throat, a sense of fullness and difficulty swallowing are both related to edema of the tissue lining the throat (mucosa).

Water tends to follow salt. Anyone who has ever salted a snail knows what happens to the snail. Here’s a less disgusting analogy: have you ever salted slices of raw eggplant? The salt draws moisture from the eggplant; after a few minutes, you can see beads of fluid on the surface of the eggplant.

Everyone has a different recipe for a salt water gargle, but all recipes tend to be fairly salty. If the gargle has a higher salt concentration than your intrinsic salt concentration, it will tend to draw out some of the edema fluid from the mucosa of the throat. This will make SOME of your "sore throat" symptoms better. The relief is very real, but also tends to be short-lived, since the gargle has done nothing to remove the cause of the sore throat.

In some cases, gargling with salt water also has a cleansing action. If you are suffering from postnasal drainage due to a bacterial sinus infection or allergies, the mucus which drains from your nasal cavity is full of chemicals that tend to promote an inflammatory response. As this stuff drains down the back of your throat, it leaves a trail of inflamed tissues in its wake. Frequent gargling with salt water will help minimize this problem.

As with everything else in medicine, you can certainly overdo this one! Make the gargle salty enough, and you will dessicate the mucosa of the throat. This could lead to even greater irritation than what you started with!

I hope your sore throat gets better very soon.

Good luck

Answer 2

Put 1/2 teaspoon salt in a half glass of warm water and gargle with it 3 times a day. It helps soothe sore throats and reduces swelling in the tissues.

Answer 3

This is a good old fashioned time tested remedy. It will definitely help your sore throat. However, you need to find out the cause of your sore throat. If you are having sinus drainage, you will have to get the mucous out in order for it to help the soreness. If you have step throat, you will need an antibiotic. Gargling with salt water will help heal the throat.

Take care.

Answer 4

Yep. It's disgusting and the first few times your throat will want to either throw it back up or choke it down (most likely the first option there) but don't swallow, salt water causes dehydration (which makes sore throats even worse).
Also, if you ever make it to a body of saltwater and you have a small cut or minor sore, if you bathe it in the water the healing time should be reduced.

If you'd like any more sore throat remedies look here: http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sore_throat2.html#sawa . Though I imagine the spicy stuff must be just as bad as saltwater...

Answer 5

Not really. Gargling with a diluted hydrogen peroxide solution is much more effective against bacterial throat infections.

You would also get more benefit gargling with mouth wash, but for any real germ killing in your throat to occur you would have to gargle for at least a minute or more.

Also, be aware that if it's a viral throat infection, not too much you can do except use an over the counter spray like Cloraseptic to relieve your symptoms.

Answer 6

Yes, gargling is very good for a sore throat. The salt helps soothe the area that is sore and promotes healing. Very wise to do for that sore throat......

Answer 7

Salt water gargling is said to soothe a sore throat, but if your throat is severely sore, or lasts for several days, your best bet is to see a doctor and get some antibiotics.

Answer 8

gargleing warm salt water good healthsore throat

Answer 9

gargling salt water is a soothing action, pretty short term, which can't hurt but won't provide long term relief. If your throat is red and inflamed, you should try some Ibuprofen also, to relieve that inflammation.

Answer 10

Gargeleling warm salt water is not bad for your health.It might even make your throat feel better