Why does a lump appear in the throat during neurosis?

Provoking factors

Pharyngeal neurosis (pharyngoneurosis) occurs due to a global or partial change in the sensitive receptors of mucous tissues. Main reasons:

• Mental disorders.
• Infectious diseases.
• Disruption of neurotransmitter communication. The most common cause is osteochondrosis of the cervical spine.
• Inflammatory diseases of the ENT organs.
• Atrophy of cells of the laryngeal mucosa.
• Overwork.
• Disorders of the central nervous system.

For the most part, susceptibility decreases until global anesthesia occurs. Neurosis with osteochondrosis of the neck is accompanied by perialgia. Painful ionic currents are transmitted along the nerve columns of the pharynx, which causes paresthesia.

Laryngeal neurosis can have different mechanisms of occurrence. It all depends on the cause of the disease and the factors provoking it: etiological, psychogenic and organic.

Is it possible to get sick due to nervousness?

Anna Bizenkova (Asafova)

During times of nervous stress, the body weakens, so does the immune system, and here you go: a cold! The usual treatment is honey, raspberries, warm and generous drinks. But be sure to have something that strengthens the immune system: Echinacea, for example, was bought at the pharmacy in the form of drops or caramels. Get well, have a good rest, just don't overheat.

Can. If you shout a lot - nervously and in a raised voice.

Can. The body weakens from nervous tension and it is easy to pick up an infection.

Tatiana Radionova

Most likely, due to nervousness, your immunity decreased and you “caught” an infection. Vitamin C and gargle every hour (soda, apple cider vinegar or pharmaceutical preparation)

Disappointed

I agree with Tatyana.

OLGA LOSEVA

rinse with furatsilin or chlorophyllipt. lubricate with Lugol's solution. drink tea with chamomile, sage, calendula with honey and lemon. Take Flucold with you on vacation, it relieves all the symptoms of a cold: runny nose, cough, chills, headache.

Aliya Smagulova

all diseases are from nerves, only syphilis is from pleasure

Tatiana Secret

Maybe not a cold)

Symptomatic picture

Pharyngeal neurosis is characterized by consistently severe symptoms, which differ depending on the typology of the disease. Main manifestations:

• tissue numbness;
• weakening of the swallowing reflex.

The disease is accompanied by perialgia (severe pain throughout the body). It can manifest itself in combination with hyperesthesia (increased sensitivity of hard dental tissues).

Symptoms of neurotics with throat neurosis:

• feeling of lack of oxygen even after taking a deep breath;
• a feeling of a lump in the throat that does not go away after eating or drinking;
• dryness in the larynx, severe thirst;
• bronchospasm, accompanied by a gag reflex, uninterrupted by mucolytics;
• sore throat, itching, sore throat, worsening at the peak of irritation;
• pain in the neck area;
• shooting pain in the ear.

Symptoms worsen when a person is in a smoky or dusty place.

An increase in reflex reactions leads to a vomiting spasm during a hacking dry cough and swallowing unchewed food. The manifestation of the disease increases with irritability, psycho-emotional lability, migraines, and visceral disorders. Physical and mental activity decreases.

Discomfort in the throat provokes additional symptoms:

• mood swings;
• disturbances in sleep and wakefulness;
• decreased appetite;
• hypochondria;
• depressive syndrome;
• the appearance of phobic disorders in the form of fear of suffocation;
• asphyxia;
• aspiration type pneumonia.

What are the types and degrees of dysphagia?

All reasons that can cause a violation of the swallowing reflex are divided into two types:

1. Mechanical - blockage of the lumen of the esophagus with too large a piece of food or narrowing of the lumen of the esophagus or external pressure on it;
2. Functional - associated with impaired peristalsis and relaxation of the muscles of the pharynx and esophagus.

According to complexity, there are 4 degrees of manifestation of the swallowing reflex disorder:

• Swallowing is slightly difficult, it is impossible to swallow only very large pieces of food or volumes of liquid;
• It becomes impossible to swallow any solid food. At the same time, the patient can easily consume food in semi-liquid or liquid form;
• A patient with a swallowing disorder can only consume nutrients in liquid form;
• Swallowing becomes completely impossible.

Symptoms of pharyngoneurosis in children

It is difficult to diagnose throat neurosis in children. They are susceptible to colds, symptoms similar to pharyngoneurosis. An unformed nervous system fails under the influence of certain factors. CNS dysfunction leads to loss of neural connections between active mucosal cells. Children, due to psycho-emotional immaturity, strongly perceive all irritating factors of a psychogenic nature, therefore neurosis in childhood is often accompanied by a mass of somatic disorders.

The main symptoms of pharyngoneurosis in a child:

• soreness;
• cough accompanied by vomiting;
• hysterical attacks;
• disturbing sleep;
• increased emotionality;
• swallowing whole pieces of food, which leads to problems in the gastrointestinal tract;
• partial hoarseness or complete aphonia.

Without prompt treatment, the disease can lead to loss of speech or cachexia.

What is the swallowing reflex?

Various muscles take part in the act of swallowing: the mouth, tongue, pharynx and esophagus.
Their actions are clearly coordinated, so food or liquid that a person consumes can only enter the stomach. In addition, the swallowing reflex is regulated by the central nervous system. Thanks to this, a person can swallow when he considers it necessary, that is, he can do this action voluntarily. Several so-called cranial nerves take part in the regulation. In addition, the brain has a special swallowing center.

Let's consider what happens during the act of swallowing in order to understand why the swallowing reflex may be impaired:

1. At the first stage, food enters the oral cavity, where it softens. This process takes no more than 10 seconds;
2. Next, the glossopharyngeal nerve is activated, which innervates the root of the tongue. Food is pushed towards the back of the throat. It is at this stage that a violation most often occurs, which leads to a violation of the swallowing reflex;
3. At the moment when the larynx is pulled up, the cricoid cartilage moves back, which closes the entrance to the trachea. After this, the muscles of the pharynx contract, and the lump passes into the esophagus without entering the trachea.

Treatment methods

Symptoms and treatment of laryngeal neurosis are determined by the type of pathology. Therapy consists of complex measures. In case of infection of the tissues of the pharynx, the main therapy is carried out by an ENT specialist; in cases of mental disorders - a psychiatrist. Morphological changes are corrected by a neurosurgeon, and spinal diseases are corrected by a vertebrologist. Pharyngeal neurosis is treated using psychotherapy and medications.

Psychocorrection techniques are aimed at teaching the patient effective ways to relax. The goal of treatment is to lead the patient to understand the true causes of the pathology, identify traumatic factors and eliminate them or learn to adapt to them.

Medications are prescribed on an individual basis. Neurotic syndrome at the initial stage is treated with light single-component or complex plant-based sedatives. If there is asthenic syndrome, depression, antidepressants are used. Hysteria and hypochondria are treated with antipsychotics. This therapy helps remove the lump in the throat due to neurosis, relieving anxiety and phobias. In cases where the cause is an infectious disease, antibiotics are prescribed. For brain tumors, surgery is indicated.

In cases with spinal dysfunction, physiotherapeutic techniques are added, including electrosleep, darsonvalization and massage.

Tell me please, can a sore throat be caused by nervousness?

I had gonorrhea... I was so nervous... and you're talking about the throat!

Grandpa is lazy

Stalin constantly had a sore throat. from nerves because he was terribly afraid of an assassination attempt.

Aigul Valeeva

All diseases are caused by nerves.

Svetlana Neufeld

Anything can get sick due to nervousness

no, your throat won't hurt from nerves. Nerves usually cause ulcers and intestinal disorders. Heart diseases. I haven't heard about the throat

It's hard to believe to be honest. there must still be some reason like: there was a draft, you weren’t dressed for the weather, someone sneezed on you, your feet got cold, etc.

maybe throw it back 2 weeks. Do you remember maybe you had a nervous breakdown? As a rule, the part of the body that is more susceptible to the disease suffers. in your case it is the throat.

Alexandra Kotkova

A sore throat is a sign of your resentment towards someone!

Treatment for children

The child is observed by several specialists: ENT, psychologist, speech therapist (depending on age). Correct parental behavior will help increase the effectiveness of treatment. Most of the psychogenic factors that cause neuroses in children come from home.

Rehabilitation therapy is indicated, including vitamin complexes and mild sedatives. During the treatment of throat neurosis in a child, it is important to suppress obvious physical symptoms. The soreness is removed by rinsing, inhalations, into which you can pour Borjomi or immunity-boosting agents prescribed by the doctor. For infectious pathologies, Dekasan is prescribed. Otherwise, how to treat pharyngeal neurosis depends entirely on the age and psychological characteristics of the child. Some medications used to treat physical symptoms may cause emotional distress, which should be taken into account when choosing a treatment regimen.

Psychotherapy for children involves classes on general development, teaching relaxation techniques, including breathing exercises. A full body massage aimed at finding blocks and relaxing them is useful for children.

Parents are required to:

• change in the psychogenic situation at home;
• reviewing your behavioral reactions and correcting them;
• adherence to daily routine;
• introducing into the diet only healthy foods enriched with vitamins;
• undergoing scheduled inspections.

A child with throat neurosis should be treated carefully. Do not scold him, try to immediately stop hysterics.

Features of the disorder in childhood

The basis for the occurrence of dysphagic disorder in children can be either congenital or acquired pathology during life:

• nervous system;
• spine;
• pharynx;
• directly to the esophagus.

Specifically, a swallowing disorder can be a symptom of athetosis, cerebral palsy, ankylosing spondylitis-Rossolimo syndrome, Arnold-Chiari disease, or a sign of an abnormal development of the esophagus, pharynx, spina bifida. In an infant, the presence of a disorder can be suspected by the following behavioral characteristics during feeding:

• unnatural position of the head and neck;
• obvious difficulty swallowing when breastfeeding or taking formula, sucking with long stops for swallowing;
• refusal to continue sucking, despite the unnaturally small amount taken, far from the norm;
• coughing or stopping breathing with redness of the face;
• spitting out food from the nostrils.

The described features can occur both during and after drinking water, with less or equal severity of symptoms.

In an older child, dysphagia can cause frequent pneumonia or bronchitis, the development of asthma (in the absence of the disease in relatives), and cause redness of the face during and after meals.

How to treat psychosomatic diseases

In order to cope with a psychosomatic illness and quickly localize it, you need to find your action or your feeling, i.e. what happens before the onset of illness.

For example, if your throat hurts because you ate 2 kg of ice cream and you just got a cold or you got a cold on the subway, then you don’t really have a choice, you’ll have to get sick - honey with tea and pills will help, but if your throat starts to hurt from stress, etc. e. This is a psychosomatic illness, then you have a choice: if you want to get sick, get sick, if you don’t want to, then you don’t have to get sick, i.e. at your request.

This article is about how to treat the psychosomatics of diseases if you have no time to get sick or don’t want to, in general, for those whose choice is “not to get sick.”

1) For example, a sign of a psychosomatic illness for me is that my throat always starts to hurt on the right side of the right tonsil, sorry for the details, but they are important for understanding how it works, so that you can identify your signs in yourself. This is a psychosomatic sore throat for me.

2) The fact that a “fake” cold begins, i.e. colds are not caused by viruses or ice cream, but rather by nerves; they help me understand my sensations in my body.

We ask ourselves the question: what happened before your throat started hurting? Was there 2 kg of ice cream? No. Maybe it was windy in the subway? Also no. Maybe because of nerves and severe stress? Maybe.

How do you understand that there was a lot of stress and that you were nervous?

Remember the last few times you got sick. Last time I had such and such sensations, and then I got sick. The time before last I had such and such sensations and then I got sick. And then I had such and such sensations and then illness.

Damn, every time the same sensations and then illness. These sensations are signs that make it clear that “oh damn, I’m stressed now, and then, as usual, I’ll be sick for two weeks.”

I can understand that I am under severe stress right now if I notice the following signs in my behavior and feelings: anxiety, sudden jerky movements, my speech speeds up, my breathing quickens, I feel tension in my eyes, I have insomnia - these are my signs stress, you have other signs.

Pay attention to an important point: when a person is under severe stress, he does not understand or realize it, he is inside this process and does not see himself from the outside. The task is to teach yourself to quickly recognize that you are currently stressed or have just experienced it.

Now describe your signs of stress in as much detail as possible on a piece of paper. Describe your sensations in the body: where exactly you feel it, and how it is specifically expressed in bodily sensations. Wrong - I feel depressed, the value of such information for you is zero. A correct description might be, just as an example, my shoulders roll forward, I begin to breathe shallowly, I feel a lump in my throat, etc. Write your feelings on a piece of paper.

Look at these signs of stress and think about which of them you can understand: if I have this sign now, it means that I am now under severe stress.

This is necessary so that during times of stress you can consciously determine the presence of stress in yourself based on this sign and quickly localize it before the onset of psychosomatics.

A sign that I have a lot of stress right now is anxiety, sudden jerky movements, my speech speeds up, my breathing quickens, I feel tension in my eyes.

For me, the most noticeable thing is tension in the eyes and sudden, jerky movements; I am clearly aware of this and notice it even in moments of severe stress.

And a sign that I have just experienced severe stress is the feeling that my throat, namely the right tonsil, is starting to hurt. For me, this sign indicates the beginning of psychosomatics.

A command comes to the brain from the subconscious to get sick, the brain sends a command to the throat muscles to contract in a certain way, to simulate a throat disease, this triggers other processes in the body, a runny nose, cough, loss of strength begins, this is how it works for me. This is how the psyche protects the body; colds give you the opportunity to rest at home and protect yourself from other stress for a couple of weeks.

Having noticed these signs of stress and that my throat hurts, I can change the further course of events consciously, i.e. do not allow the body to “turn on” the disease for rest, but localize stress and cure your psychosomatic disease, in this example it is a cold.

Localization of psychosomatics in the “blossom” complex is two simple exercises that are described below in this article.