My throat feels like it's bleeding?

Question

My dad is over visiting right now, and both parents smoke.

They aren't courteous at all, and just smoke inside the house.

I have been breathing in this c**p for about a week now, and now my throat feels like it's bleeding.

I was told to gargle salt water, but that just burned like h**l.

Anything else I can do to ease the pain?

It's almost to the point that I'm in tears.

Answer 1

suck on some kinda losinge or get a popsicle sounds like strep thought i get like that wen i eat an oringes

Answer 2

Use a Mask! Absorbing more smoke will create more pain, if you use a mask at least you will ease the pain.  

Answer 3

First the salt water is supposed to be warm. If that doesn't work get you some Cepacol, it is this liquid throat medicine that works really well. You could possible have Laryngitis, don't panic I had it before. The doctor just prescribed me some liquid Vicodin, and I was good. You need to tell your parents also, second hand smoke is just as bad as smoking them yourself.

Answer 4

go see a doctor and just leave the house till they stop go to a friend for a little till you feel better

Answer 5

You probably have strep throat, I had it before and sounds like what you are describing.  

Answer 6

Just ask them to slow down on the smokeing :]

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Answer 7

ewww

tell them to stop smoking. if they care about you, they will at least do it outside

Answer 8

Use honey and lemon. Stir honey and lemon to taste into a glass of very hot water, allowing it to cool to room temperature before you sip it. The honey coats and soothes your throat, and the lemon helps cut mucus. This time-tested recipe may relieve most of your pain ...if only temporarily.

Humidify your home if the air is dry. You can do this by boiling water and letting it evaporate into the air.

Double your fluid intake. Fluids help keep mucus thin and easy to clear.

Talk to your parents about how it physically hurts you when they smoke in the house.

YES! Secondhand smoke CAN cause your throat to bleed!! Smoke dries a throat tremendously! The mixture of constant coughing and a dry throat can cause the lining of your throat to become cracked thus causing bleeding.

Side Effects from Second Hand Smoke (pay close attention to #5):

1. Cerebral Vascular Disease (Stroke)

Cigarette smoke can stop oxygen from going to your brain causing brain cells to die (cerebral infraction). It can also cause hemorrhage (bleeding) in your brain. These lead to stroke.

2. Coronary Heart Diseases (Heart Attacks)

Nicotine in tobacco causes the blood vessels in the heart to narrow. This makes the heart work harder resulting in high blood pressure. Smoking can block the arteries by causing blood clots to form in the inner walls of the arteries resulting in heart attacks. When these clots break and reach the brain, they cause stroke.

3. Peripheral Vascular Diseases

(Decreased blood supply to the limbs) Cigarette smoke causes narrowing of the arteries of the feet and hands. This occurs over a shorter period of time if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. It can result in tingling feeling of the hands and feet and difficulty in healing of scratches and sores.

4. Lung Cancer

Tar from cigarette builds up in your lungs, causing it harder to breathe. You can develop an on going cough and over a period of time, your lungs can develop cancer.

5. Laryngeal Cancer (Cancer of the voice box)

Your vocal cords can become cancerous, resulting in hoarseness voice, cough, pain and having blood in your spit. The chance of getting laryngeal cancer increases if you drink alcohol as well.

6. Oral Cancer (Cancer of the mouth)

This refers to the cancers of the mouth and throat. You can have lumps, pain and bleeding around the mouth and throat area. It may become difficult to swallow.

7. Oesophageal Cancer (Cancer of the food passage)

This is a cancer of your gullet (food passage) resulting in difficulty in eating and swallowing.

8. Pancreatic Cancer

Your pancreas is needed to produce digestive juices and insulin for controlling the blood sugar level. Cancer of the pancreas results in jaundice, apin and weight loss.

9. Renal Cancer

Renal cancer is cancer of your kidneys. Your kidneys help to remove waste products from your body through the urine and passage of blood in the urine.

10. Urinary Bladder Cancer

Your urinary bladder collects and stores urine until it is passed out from the body. Urinary bladder cancer can result in painless bleeding when passing urine.

I also suggest that you see your doctor ASAP to avoid infection!

Answer 9

you need to boil water and lean over it and put a towel over your head and breath in the hot water vapor it will burn at first but the burning wont last long. After breathing for about 15 min you need to stop and sleep and the pain will be gone in the morning.Hope this helps XD

Answer 10

definitely go to a friends and get away from that. try some herbal teas if you have any... anything warm but not to hot. and get out of the house some how.

Answer 11

call your pharmacy or doctor and get professional help from them if it feels that way. if it gets worse call an ambulance or go to the hospital. bleeding in the throat is serious. but i don't think smoking has anything to do with it. it can hurt your lungs alot. but idk about the throat  

Answer 12

if your throat feels like it's bleeding you could only think that by tasting your blood?? if so then you should go see a doctor..but it's deff not from second hand smoke that's forsure!! your probably getting sick and you have a sore throat...sooo take some antibiotics and be patient...

Answer 13

First tell your parents to take it outside and realize what they are doing to you. Secondly try sucking on ice maybe... I dont know.  

Answer 14

You just have to wait it out for about a week or so, it's very irritated most likely.

But you can throw out all their cigs :)

Answer 15

go to a doctor and try to stay outside and drink lots of water. good luck! :(  

Answer 16

go to a doctor

Answer 17

I'm no doctor, sweetie, but it sounds like you have symptoms of strep throat. When you're that sick your throat hurts and burns around smoke, dust, and practically any particle you can think of. I feel bad for you being so sad. Try to make an appointment with a doctor tomorrow. In the meantime, keep gargling, take Tylenol, try slurpees/icees/popsicles and get restttttt. Love your bed.

Answer 18

Robitusson will coat your throat and take away he pain for a few hours while it heals until then gargle salt water and try to drink a lot of water juice is no good the sugar will thicken your syliva and make it worse on your throat.