The semen 'cure' for pharyngitis that no trial supports
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The leche 'cure' for pharyngitis that no trial supports
Can a bodily fluid cure a two-month pharyngitis? In the age of responsible consumption, the answer has been sought online rather than at the ENT specialist's office. The story making the rounds tells how, after a sensual encounter, an irritated and bleeding throat felt brand new. No doctoral thesis, no miracle: chronic pharyngitis is not cured with this remedy, even if the temporary relief may fool more than one person.
What lies behind the false cure?
The fluid's composition is water, mucins, lipids and proteins, according to the technical explanation that has circulated. Nothing that could regenerate damaged pharyngeal tissue. What a thick, warm liquid can do is lubricate the throat, reduce friction when swallowing and, with it, mask the pain for a while. A mechanical painkiller, not an antibiotic.
The risk of viral remedies
The overlooked detail is the two-month pharyngitis with bloody expectoration. Such a condition is not resolved with beliefs but with a medical diagnosis: behind it there may be an infection that won't go away, or something worse. Self-experimentation is the new entertainment online, and responsible consumption should start with not putting off the visit to the doctor. The mockery, of which there is no shortage, suggests that even the remedy's most fervent defender seems to have forgotten this.
The doctoral thesis on leche as a natural antibiotic can wait. So can otolaryngology. But in the meantime, the advice is free: if you spit blood, close the browser and open your doctor's appointment book.
Can a bodily fluid cure a two-month pharyngitis? In the age of responsible consumption, the answer has been sought online rather than at the ENT specialist's office. The story making the rounds tells how, after a sensual encounter, an irritated and bleeding throat felt brand new. No doctoral thesis, no miracle: chronic pharyngitis is not cured with this remedy, even if the temporary relief may fool more than one person.
What lies behind the false cure?
The fluid's composition is water, mucins, lipids and proteins, according to the technical explanation that has circulated. Nothing that could regenerate damaged pharyngeal tissue. What a thick, warm liquid can do is lubricate the throat, reduce friction when swallowing and, with it, mask the pain for a while. A mechanical painkiller, not an antibiotic.
The risk of viral remedies
The overlooked detail is the two-month pharyngitis with bloody expectoration. Such a condition is not resolved with beliefs but with a medical diagnosis: behind it there may be an infection that won't go away, or something worse. Self-experimentation is the new entertainment online, and responsible consumption should start with not putting off the visit to the doctor. The mockery, of which there is no shortage, suggests that even the remedy's most fervent defender seems to have forgotten this.
The doctoral thesis on leche as a natural antibiotic can wait. So can otolaryngology. But in the meantime, the advice is free: if you spit blood, close the browser and open your doctor's appointment book.
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