Does ice drinking really cure sore throat?

Is ice drinking a cause of sore throat or a cure for a common illness during these hot days?

Summer with hot weather is always the time when children are susceptible to respiratory diseases. Not only because of the extreme temperatures, inaccurate oral information also makes daily routines a risk.

A surprising situation?

Many people shared their experience of using cold water, even ice, to get rid of a sore throat. Some people have recovered after doing so. Regarding this, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vo Thanh Quang (Central Otolaryngology and Hospital) affirmed: " This is a concept that is not scientific . We cannot take some accidental results to make. the common ".

According to Dr. Quang, all medical solutions need a clear scientific basis. If unfortunately having a health problem is not too serious, sometimes we do not need to take medicine, the body can still fight back and recover. However, we cannot therefore give advice to others to do the same, which requires the opinion of a doctor.

Drinking cold water makes a child more likely to have a sore throat, not a cure for a sore throat. (Photo: Simplicity).

The reason is that some people have good resistance, they just need to practice and supplement the necessary nutrients from food to improve their health to be able to recover. On the contrary, with the number of children, they are forced to use a few drugs to solve the problem if they do not want the disease to last 2 weeks instead of 2 days and cause unwanted consequences.

"The people who do that are empiricist, but only the experience of a few isolated cases, without scientific knowledge, " the doctor said.

Agreeing with the opinion of Dr. Quang, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung (Department of Pediatrics, Bach Mai Hospital) assessed: "We call this the coincidence phenomenon ".

Specifically, Dr. Dung explained , "I let patients use drug A for 3 days without cure, and by the 4th day the patient used medicine B again. The family members of the patients who saw this could say that drug B works. But we then had to consider what drug B was, sometimes cured by taking A, so that day would be cured . " If Drug B is cold water here, parents may be misunderstanding the problem.

Children should drink water about 25 degrees Celsius

According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, we should let children drink cool water instead of cold water and this is completely beneficial. "The usual summer temperature will be at 39-40 degrees Celsius, parents will let their children drink cool water about 25 degrees Celsius, which will help them drink more water, compensate for the loss of water during the day, help children feel refreshing, healthy so I strongly encourage, " this doctor advised.

However, Dr. Dung emphasized that it is not advisable to give children cold drinks. The water temperature at 8-10 degrees Celsius has started to be too cold for children, families also have a habit of putting ice in the water, making this temperature even lower, causing them to suddenly have cold problems. such as sore throat, tonsillitis.

Cool water helps children drink more water, which makes the body cool down. But drinking ice is too cold is the risk of making children more prone to respiratory problems. (Photo: Today Show).

" Children are very incompatible with drinking cold water excessively . Their tonsils are still in the developmental stage, have many cavities, are very inflamed. Sometimes, just a little cold water can bring out tonsils in the evening. , throat, fever, even pus. This is also a direct cause of acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis or purulent tonsillitis and fever, " Associate Professor Quang said.

Naturally, there are bacteria in our throat. When the body is healthy, these bacteria carry small numbers, can only lie there and do not cause disease. However, low temperatures are favorable conditions for them to grow and affect human health.