Hoping for a Doctor's opinion???!

Question: Why is it when you have a sore throat, that doctors recommend that you drink something hot to sooth the throat, but when it comes to a muscle injury or inflammation, they tell you that heat increases the inflammation, and to only use ice? Isn't a sore throat inflammation too?

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Answers: Why is it when you have a sore throat, that doctors recommend that you drink something hot to sooth the throat, but when it comes to a muscle injury or inflammation, they tell you that heat increases the inflammation, and to only use ice? Isn't a sore throat inflammation too?

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sore throat is a different kind of inflammation. you gargle with warm water to help eliminate junk that falls to the back of your throat........u surely wouldn't gargle a muscular injury. i was always told to ice for the first 24 hours for muscle injury and then alternate heat and ice

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huh?

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