1) Steam. Get a personal steam inhaler from the drugstore or Wal-Mart. You can find them in the allergy medicine aisle. About $30. Use it ever day...use the heck out of it. It'll loosen the phlegm so it can be blown out.
2) Ask your doc about Flonase. I have used the stuff several times over the past few years and it's been a Godsend. I can wake up in the morning without gasping for air.
Don't you think Flonase has an odd smell? I couldn't stand the smell of it.
I was just about to buy a steamer today to have next to my bed in the meantime for my dry throat. I am headed to wal-mart when I wake up to do that. I am gonna go hang out in the shower until the water turns cold.
Lemme ask you one thing here...is it better to use hot/warm when drinking with these kinds of sore throats? Or cold/mild? I have been buying slurpees like crazy the last few days for relief of the dry throat.Not the soda ones...but the juice ones...crystal light.