Symptoms
An individual may be diagnosed as suffering from post-nasal drip if they suffer from the following symptoms:
- Coughing
- Wheezing (a more common source of wheezing than asthma)
- Constant swallowing
- Rhinorrhea, running nose due to mucus flow
- Frequent spitting
- Tickling in the throat
- Constant clearing of throat
- Rigid burning sensation at back of the throat
- Broken or cracking voice
- Mucus feeling in the back of the throat
- Difficulty in breathing
- Congestion in the nasal and sinus passages
- Chronic sore throat
- Masses formed in the crypts of the tonsils that are generally yellow or white (commonly called tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths)
- Halitosis (bad breath)
- Snorting to clear mucus from the nasal passage that cannot otherwise be cleared by blowing one's nose
- Cobblestone appearance of the oropharyngeal mucosa
- Frontal cranial pressure
- Fatigue
- Nausea
- Vomit
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