How to prevent throat cancer

Throat cancer is a common disease in life, but most people don’t know what better methods can help prevent it. So how can we prevent throat cancer?

7 Ways to Prevent Throat Cancer

1. Do not drink alcoholic beverages for a long time, quit smoking and drinking, do not eat too much pickled vegetables, sour, spicy and stimulating food, and avoid eating moldy food, which is more important for people with chronic pharyngitis. Develop good dietary hygiene habits, such as eating less meat and more vegetables, and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables.

2. Strengthen labor protection. Harmful gases and dust in the production process, such as silicon dust, chloramine, bromine, iodine, etc., need to be properly handled. Workers who are in contact with harmful chemical gases for a long time should wear gas masks and protective isolation clothing.

3. Improve your physical fitness and strengthen physical exercise. Wash your face and body with cold water frequently to prevent colds. Have a regular schedule of work and rest. Do more outdoor activities in the morning or after work.

4. It is also essential to stick to physical exercise and maintain a good attitude. Strengthening exercise is good for all functions of the body. Regular walking, traveling, breathing fresh air, and maintaining a good mood can also reduce the occurrence of laryngeal cancer.

5. Avoid shouting. Improper vocalization and excessive use of the voice can cause acute congestion or bleeding of the vocal cords. This is especially important during a cold. Do not over-speak and take proper rest for the vocal cords. Keep your mouth clean and do not allow foreign impurities to enter the throat cavity to prevent infection by pathogenic bacteria and cause disease.

6. If hoarseness does not improve after general treatment and silent rest for more than 2-3 weeks and gradually worsens, you should be alert and go to the hospital for laryngoscopy or fiberoptic laryngoscopy. Because the small cavity of the laryngopharynx is deep and the anatomical structure is complex, it is not easy to observe. Once cancer occurs in the throat, if it can be discovered and treated early, the treatment effect is generally better.

7. Those who have a foreign body sensation in the throat and pharynx, such as crawling sensation, itching, irritating cough, coughing up thick, smelly, purulent sputum, occasionally bloody, bad breath, etc., should pay more attention and go to the hospital for diagnosis in time.