Ever experienced a sore feeling on one side of your throat which persists for a week? It may be sore throat gone badly. If it hurts when you swallow and it feels like something’s stuck on one side of the throat, and the pain won’t go away, it may be throat abscess or infection of the lymph nodes of your neck and throat area.

Tonsil abscess is a pocket full of pus stuck in the back of the tonsil. Such an infection may be bacterial in origin, and a doctor may prescribe antibiotics. Your doctor may diagnose strep throat or mononucleosis (which requires body rest to enable the body to build antibodies). If its mononucleosis, it was brought on by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is spread primarily through the exchange of saliva like kissing, or through another person’s coughing. Read more »

Have you ever felt that pain in your throat that is such a source of discomfort and may then lead to fever, colds and coughs? If you have, then you at least know that this is what we call a sore throat. Read more »