Best Sore Throat Treatment

If you've ever had a sore throat, you know the horrible bind it can put you in. The other day, I went to bed, and I could already feel the sore throat coming on. It was getting hard to swallow and it hurt slightly every time I swallowed. I hoped that I wouldn't get a sore throat, but sure enough, by the morning, I had a full blown killer sore throat. One of the worse I've ever had. So what do you do when you're miserable, can't swallow and have a disgusting taste in your mouth? I had difficulty swallowing without making the 'Man-oh-man-does-this-hurt' face.

My first reaction to try and treat it was to swallow some of the Vicks cold/flu symptom reliever. It promised relief from sore throat. Didn't happen. The next thing I went to was the oral treatment - one of those nice candy-like medicines that you're just supposed to suck on. I tried convincing myself that it was working, but within a few minutes I knew that it wasn't. In fact I suspected that I was beginning to develop strep throat. Not Good.

First - Know your enemy. Sore throat can be viral or bacterial. Bacterial kinds are much worse than viral. These include hemophilius, mycoplasma and strep. Viral kinds are flu, cold or mononucleosis. Bacterial sore throats are pretty easy to treat with antibiotics, but are more painful, can be more serious, and then of course, you have the side effects of the antibiotics. On the other hand, viral sore throat infections don't respond to antibiotics, but are not as painful and long-lasting.

Okay, moving on to the good parts - the destruction of the enemy. Here is best way to destroy the sore throat in under a day, many a times within a couple of hours if it's not in its developed stages. Cayenne pepper in warm-hot water. Add a bit of cayenne pepper in warm to hot water and gargle with it to absolutely annihilate the sore throat. This will take a bit of testing on your part to figure out how hot and how concentrated solution is too much for you to handle. If it's just in the beginning stages, you can destroy it in under 2-3 hours. If it's too bad already, you might need to gargle every 15 minutes or so before you see some relief from the sore throat. You need to be careful though because cayenne pepper will feel really hot on the tip of your tongue when you spit it out, and it'll take a little while before you get used to it. But once you start using it properly and regularly, you'll see your sore throat disappear withing hours. And don't let me give you a false impression though, it isn't as bad as it may seem just reading about it. I used it for the first time, and within 2-3 gargles, I was doing just fine.

Consider the following:

1.Cayenne Pepper costs under a dollar at your local grocery store.

2.You would have cured your sore throat in under a day.

3.You won't suffer from any side effects, other than maybe a little hot tongue for a few seconds!

With these advantages, why would you ever go to a doctor for sore throat? Now there might be exceptions, and you might be suffering from something that is not treatable with this. If your sore throat doesn't go away, or at least doesn't significantly improve within the day, you should go see your doctor. Otherwise, enjoy the freedom from sore throat.