Sore Throat Compress

Especially for children a sore throat compress is often very useful. Usually after one or two treatments the sore throat has gone.

If your child can not bear the throat compress, I suggest giving homeopathic remedies.
You may use compresses beside other home remedies.

Hot Lemon Compress:

cures mild sore throat.

Take a lemon and squeeze the juice
Dilute with equal amount of hot water
Soak a linen or cotton cloth (in the size of a neck) in the hot lemon solution
Wring out the cloth strongly
Place the cloth as hot as bearable around the neck
Fasten with a woolen scarf
Leave it on for 10 minutes
After removing the compress keep you throat warm

Cold Lemon Compress:

helps for the beginning of a serious sore throat, strep throat with high fever.

Take a lemon (organic if possible) and squeeze the juice
Dilute with equal amount of cold water
Soak a linen or cotton cloth (neck size) in the cold lemon solution
Wring out the cloth
Grease your skin with olive oil on the neck
Apply the cold lemon cloth around the neck, but leave the spine area free (as shown on the picture above)
Fasten with a woolen scarf tightly
Leave it on for 1 hour
Remove if your skin gets itchy
After removing keep your throat warm

May be the most effective throat compress is the:

cottage-cheese poultice

helps for very acute, severe, painful swollen sore throat:

Take a thin, larger cotton cloth and 200-300g cottage-cheese
Spread the cottage-cheese on the middle of the cloth and make a small bag as shown on the picture below
Warm the cottage-cheese bag with a hair drier or on the radiator
Apply it to the neck and leave the spine area free
Fasten first with a cotton scarf and with a thick woolen scarf afterwards
Leave it on for 3-4 hours until the cottage-cheese dries up
After removing keep your throat warm

Can be repeated daily if it helps.

Do not use cottage-cheese poultice, if you are allergic to cow's milk.

Compresses can be used as a complementary treatment beside any kind of other medication or home remedy.

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