It is cold season and you have been asked to provide an educational event for the PTO of the local elementary school. You are talking about URIs and their treatments. What would you include in teaching about the treatment of pharyngitis?
A) Use of cool saline gargles or throat irrigations
B) No real treatment for pharyngitis
C) Use of warm saline gargles or throat irrigations
D) Heat may increase the spasms in pharyngeal muscles
Ans: C
Feedback: Depending on the severity of the pharyngitis and the degree of pain, warm saline gargles or throat irrigations are used. The benefits of this treatment depend on the degree of heat that is applied. The nurse teaches the patient about these procedures and about the recommended temperature of the solution: high enough to be effective and as warm as the patient can tolerate, usually 105ºF to 110ºF (40.6ºC to 43.3ºC). Irrigating the throat may reduce spasm in the pharyngeal muscles and relieve soreness of the throat. You would not tell the PTO that there is no real treatment of pharyngitis.
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