When you are sick many times the drainage is making your throat sore and if you cough it up, it temporarily improves your throat soreness. Other times, its just there but doesn’t make your throat sore
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The lining of the throat gets congested. This is the inflammatory process in response to invading bacterial or viral infection. The body brings in extra blood to supply fighting white blood cells and serum that has immunity proteins named immuoglobulins. All this extra fluid volume in a space that has limited expansion will press on nerve endings. The the brain interprets this as pain.
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