Listening to the internet about health care was stupid, at least in this case.

Scared me so I DID look it up; NO, not life threatening - per the Mayo Clinic Website.

 

I got the tight throat, weird virus taste feeling from flu onset in January, I took 150mg of Zinc and 2000 mg of vitamin C and sterilized everything in my dirty ### cab. I didn't get the flu but the lymph node on the left side of my neck swelled up like a golf ball and was super tender for about a week. The white blood cells came and got that virus and took it back to base for a WHOOPIN!!! Kept taking 100mg of Zinc for 3 days, then 50 mg a day for 3 days. didn't get sick. Zinc makes you invulnerable.

 

Untreated strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever, and rheumatic fever can scar the valves of the heart.
It is usually a good idea to get it treated promptly.

 

Aaaannnndddd..........Eustachian tubes?? Flu virus love them.
In your ears there's a tube connected to your throat.
The sore throat rats, and mushrooms, try to get up in there, also; you get earaches started like that.
This tube is a corridor - that I try to manipulate, to "Empty" all the crap and corruption out of.
With the same hand and ear; left ear - left hand.
I take my index finger and put behind my earlobe.
Put your middle finger in front of earlobe. This Should put your fingers about 1 inch up on your ear.
If you gently but firmly push in, and down your neck, and into the center of your throat,
it forces the crap down, and out of the Eustachian tube.
Have a glass of acidic Orange Juice handy for a chaser, straight to the stomach acid;
cause you can't spit it out - it's too far down your throat for that.
Same principle as the golf ball down the fire hose. Each time you will feel stuff empty out.
DO Try this at home. I do it like 4 times in a 1/2 hr. timeframe with a sore throat.
Works for me; you'll remember this next sore throat or earache.