Plumbum Metallicum - Throat symptoms - T.F. Allen

THROAT

Throat

Hawking of sourish mucus (after half an hour),

Hawking up of a sourish sputa,

Mucus is expectorated from the throat with easy hawking, it is frothy like saliva, transparent, lumpy, and in yellowish-green tenacious masses (first day),

Very tenacious mucus,

Choking, when swallowing,

Choking sensation in throat (after one year),

Sensation of dryness in the throat, in the morning,

Dryness of throat (after five hours),

Roughness of the throat, with somewhat hoarse voice (fourth morning),

Rawness of the throat (after six hours),

Swollen sensation in the throat, that obliges frequent swallowing, and does not disappear (after two hours),

Swollen sensation in the throat, on swallowing, with retching (fourth day),

Constriction of the throat,

Constriction of the throat, ; (fifth and sixth days),

The patient continued to suffer from constriction of the throat for three months after the poisoning, rendering deglutition difficult, associated with general muscular feebleness,

Spasmodic constriction of the throat,

Sense of constriction about the throat and epigastrium,

Violent constriction of the throat,

Sensation as though the foreign body in the throat slipped downwards, afterwards tearing in the right scapula (after two hours and a half),

Sensation as of a foreign body in the right side of the throat, with a sulphurous odor; the sensation afterwards extended towards the ear and lasted a long time,

Sensation as if something in the throat moved suddenly up to the base of the skull and thence to the left orbital region, where it became a sticking; while smoking (first day),

Sensation of a foreign body in the throat that provokes sneezing, on swallowing it extends far down, but immediately returns, it often disappears for awhile of itself, lasting the whole forenoon; it is not painful,

A small body frequently rose into the throat, which she thought she must swallow again, by paroxysms (after three-quarters of an hour),

Rising of a ball into the throat (globus hystericus),

Pains in the throat,

Retching in the throat (after two hours),

Heat in throat,

Offensive taste of lead in the throat (second day),

Sulphurous and sour taste low down in the throat,

Uvula and Tonsils.

Uvula inflamed,

Tonsils inflamed and indurated,

Tonsils swollen,

Dryness of the fauces,

Fauces and Pharynx.

Sense of heat and tickling in the fauces (second day),

Pharyngeal muscles almost paralyzed,

Paralysis of the pharyngeal muscles, and inability to swallow food,

Constriction and cutting in the pharynx, extending as far down as the stomach, before and after eating,

Frequent contraction of the pharynx,

Oesophagus and Swallowing.

Feels food descending into the oesophagus and reaching the stomach (tenth day),

When the colic is coming on, drinking is difficult, owing to a sensation of constriction extending from the epigastrium all along the oesophagus to the pharynx, which prevents the barley-water from passing; if he goes on trying to swallow, it is rejected almost immediately,

Drawing sensation in the oesophagus, while eating, as if the oesophagus would be torn off (sixth day),

Sensation of crawling in the oesophagus,

Heat along the whole oesophagus,

Difficult swallowing, ,

Swallowing difficult, at times almost impossible,

External Throat.

Throbbing in the carotids and also in the crural arteries,

Left parotid gland swollen and painful; skin hot and red. Right parotid somewhat swollen,

Submaxillary glands somewhat swollen and painful,